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Report Recommends Budget and Policy Planning to Meet Virginia’s 2030 Attainment Plan
SCHEV, the Lumina Foundation’s Strategy Labs and HCM Strategists recently released a report that details recommendations for budget and policy plans to meet Virginia’s objective. The report titled, “A Strategic Finance Plan for Virginia: Aligning Higher Education Finances and Strategies” provides a cost analysis of postsecondary education in comparison with other states, offers demand and degree production estimates and gives the overall cost of achieving the goal.
November 19, 2019
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Lumina Foundation Donates $500,000 to Fill Educational Attainment Gaps
The Lumina Foundation granted the state of Virginia $500,000 to increase educational attainment for students of color. This grant, alongside other ones gifted to Colorado, Oregon and Tennessee are part of Lumina’s Talent, Innovation and Equity Partnership (TIE). Lumina expects to award grants to a total of six states. TIE’s goal is to have 60 […]
November 14, 2019
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A New Report Asks Who’s Going Back to College?
A new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center delves into the demographics of students going back to college, where and when they re-enroll and who’s most likely to graduate.
October 30, 2019
Students
Lumina Creates Task Force to Address Inequity Issues at Post-Secondary Institutions
The Lumina Foundation, a national college access organization, has created a task force to highlight the need for a national response to ensure quality post-secondary programs for all students.
September 10, 2019
Leadership & Policy
New Bennett President Suzanne Walsh Optimistic Amid Crisis
Bennett College, one of only two remaining historically Black colleges for women, has been here before. At the start of a new academic year, it’s a precarious place. For the tuition-driven college, fall enrollment numbers are in flux. And contingency plans are being put in place if a legal battle to stay accredited fails. These are among the challenges confronting the institution — and that now belong to Suzanne Elise Walsh, Bennett’s surprising and unconventional choice for its new president.
August 8, 2019
Leadership & Policy
Moving Fast, Bennett College Taps New President
Bennett College trustees, less than a week after announcing the sudden departure of president Dr. Phyllis Dawkins, have announced that Suzanne Walsh will become president of the private women’s HBCU on Aug. 1.
June 27, 2019
Students
Lumina Foundation Grant Aimed at Strengthening Student Success
The Lumina Foundation has made a grant to Workcred, an associate of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to collaborate with the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) to strengthen student success and career outcomes. Workcred, APLU and UPCEA will brainstorm and determine how colleges […]
December 19, 2018
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Lake Tahoe Community College Offers Nation’s First Bi-State Promise Program
Nevada Tahoe Basin residents now have the chance to attend Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) in California tuition-free for the first year due to two donations that expanded the Lake Tahoe College Promise program.
October 31, 2018
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Recent Graduates Lack Soft Skills, New Study Reports
A recent study revealed that four in 10 corporations and almost half of academic institutions believe that recent graduates lack certain so-called “soft skills” needed in the workforce to be successful, including emotional intelligence, complex reasoning and negotiation and persuasion.
August 3, 2018
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Education Leaders: Work Needed to Improve Degree Attainment Outcomes
Identifying and replicating practices and policies that lead to improved rates of attaining college degrees among underrepresented groups in higher education generated frank discussion at a forum Wednesday in Washington, D.C. titled “Why the Nation Needs to Do College Attainment Better.”
June 18, 2018
Community Colleges
“Achieving the Dream’ ID’s Student Issues
NASHVILLE — Advancing equity, strengthening advising and improving pedagogy and curriculum were among the issues explored this week at the annual meeting of Achieving the Dream.
February 21, 2018
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New Initiative Seeks to Unite Native-Serving Institutions
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, or WICHE, has launched a new collaboration of Native-Serving Institutions that is hoped to benefit more than five million people in the country who identify as Native American.
January 18, 2018
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