Current News Boosting College Success for Latinos
Hispanics are the fastest-growing minority group in the United States, yet their college-degree attainment levels remain among the lowest. Modeling Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Campus Practices That Work for Latino Students, an Excelencia in Education publication funded by Lumina Foundation, highlights 12 institutions that are elevating the college playing field for Hispanics. 
 The Funding Picture at Community Colleges: New Report Points to Increasing Costs
Rising tuition costs and enrollment caps at four-year institutions are pushing more students to community colleges. This phenomenon creates challenges because many two-year schools face cuts in state support and other funding resources. Funding Issues in U.S. Community Colleges: Findings from a 2007 Survey of the National State Directors of Community Colleges, from the American Association of Community Colleges, expects community colleges to raise tuition by 4 percent.
 National Commission on Adult Literacy Issues Report: 90 million Americans Unable to Meet Workplace Needs
Diminished literacy skills among adults undermine the nation's economic future. According to The National Commission on Adult Literacy's report, Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce, up to 90 million adults are ill-equipped to meet global workforce demands or secure a family-sustaining wage job. The report suggests improving state and federal adult literacy programs and creating an adult education and workforce-skills system capable of enrolling 20 million adults by 2020.
 SHEEO Calls for One Million Additional Degrees Annually, 2009-2025
The United States needs a major overhaul in adult education to produce the 16 million additional postsecondary education graduates required to fill job needs. SHEEO press release provides a detailed state-level analysis of how to achieve the increased degree production goal.
Funding of Postsecondary Education Strong Despite Tight State Budgets
The State Higher Education Executives Officers association (SHEEO) has released their annual report on state support of postsecondary education. The report, State Higher Education Finance FY 2007, demonstrates a continuing recovery in state financial support for higher education, as per student state and local support to higher education in FY 2007 grew 3.9 percent faster than inflation and enrollment growth. Current state finance outlook suggests sustaining the recovery will be difficult in fiscal year 2009.
 IHEP Report Examines Philanthropic Support for Postsecondary Readiness and Access
This report, Corporate Investments in College Readiness and Access, examines major corporations’ philanthropic support for “college readiness and access initiatives,” defined as efforts to increase the likelihood that students will graduate from high school fully prepared to enroll and succeed in college. The report supplements substantial research that highlights the importance of higher education to ensuring a U.S. workforce prepared to compete in a global economy.
 Report Informs Stateside Accountability Debate With Lessons From Europe
The report, Learning Accountability from Bologna: a Higher Education Policy Primer, examines the reconstruction of those 46 European higher education systems—known as the “Bologna Process”—in terms of addressing challenges that lie at the core of current debates in the United States about documenting student learning. Written by higher education researcher Clifford Adelman, the study explores the core features of change in Europe that have been created jointly by higher education administrators, faculty, students, and national ministries of education.
 Shortage of Degrees in 35 States, Lack of Support for Working Adults Attending College
A new report by The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, Adult Learning in Focus: National and State-by-State Data contains data and comparative charts on adult educational attainment, adult learning participation, affordability, accessibility and aspiration.
New Initiative Reaches Out to Baby Boomers
As 78 million baby boomers approach retirement, their attention is turning to staying active and re-focusing their careers—and they’re about to get some help from community colleges, thanks to a new “Plus 50 Initiative.”
Older Students are Hot New Thing on California College Campuses
College acceptance letters aren't going out to only new high school graduates. More than ever, it's their parents waiting for that letter.
Decline in Number of Minority Students Pursuing STEM Majors
Interest among American students of all races and ethnicities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has dissipated over the last several years. As a result, the pipeline of American engineers has dwindled. In a new report, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) asserts that the rates of participation among underrepresented minorities in STEM fields have flat-lined, and in some cases declined.
Community College Students Lack Access to Affordable Loans
More than a million students don’t have access to federal student loans because their community colleges opt not to participate in the federal loan program, according to a new report.
Women In Government's Video Clip on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
Graduate Education as a Public Good
At a time of increased scrutiny of higher education, this report brings into sharp focus how the U.S. graduate education system benefits our country and the world. It showcases alumni of U.S. graduate schools whose far-reaching accomplishments in the sciences, business, government, education and the arts have positively affected millions of people, worldwide. The report illustrates the value of graduate education to both the U.S. economy and our quality of life.
Grants to Hispanic-Serving Institutions to promote Economic Growth
Colleges will receive much-needed funds from a Labor Department program, which works closely with businesses to fill work force gaps.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute issues $60 Mililion in Grants for Undergraduate Science Achievement
A year ago, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute issued a challenge to 224 undergraduate colleges nationwide: identify creative new ways to engage your students in the biological sciences.
Education Sector, a DC- based Think-Tank reports on Successful Minority Student Retention
Most people who grow up like Makandall Saint-Eloi never graduate from college. Raised along with his brother by a single mom who worked as a nurse’s assistant to make ends meet, Saint-Eloi grew up poor and went to a Hollywood, Florida, high school where only a third of ninth-graders pass the state reading test.
More Attention needed for "Working Adults" in the Education sector
The Lumina Foundation for Education, a respected group devoted to increased access and success in American higher education, has published a report advocating that more attention be paid to the 54 million "working adults" in the country.
How to Attract Mature Students to Colleges: The Case of Louisiana
Bruce Chaloux, director of student access programs and services for the Southern Regional Education Board, says colleges in his region have long missed out on a key demographic. By his group’s count, 20 million 25- to 55-year-olds in 16 southern states have enrolled at a college but left without a degree.
Breaking the Barriers for Students in Foster Care
At 21, Bill Cunningham should be considered a success story. Living nearly half of his life in a series of foster and group homes, he attended five different schools and struggled with behavioral problems. Statistically, he had almost no chance of earning a college degree or to rise above employment at the minimum wage.
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Report projects rise in Number of Minority High School Graduates
Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity, 1992 to 2022
1 in 5 College Students Remains Uninsured: Minority Students are Most At Risk
About 1.7 million traditional-aged college students, or 20 percent, are uninsured in the United States. And student health plans – offered by 57 percent of all colleges – vary dramatically in terms of services covered, according to a new report on college students and health insurance released by the United States Government Accountability Office Friday.
Gaining Ground in Florida: Women outnumber Men in College Enrollment
They outnumber men on campus, and the gap is growing. Not everyone is concerned, but some try to help guys gain ground.
California Struggles with Transfer Credits
The “perfect 60” is that elusive combination of community college credits that would, without exception, transfer, counting toward general education and major requirements alike at a California State University campus.
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education Hosts Kentucky Adult Learner Summit
As the kickoff event for the Kentucky Adult Learner Initiative led by the Council and funded by Lumina Foundation for Education, the Kentucky Adult Learner Summit was convened February 4-5, 2008 at the Marriott Griffin Gate in Lexington.
Research on Women and Non-Conventional Majors Released
Differences between the ways male and female science students relate to mentors could have a significant impact on efforts to attract more women to certain fields, according to a new study focused on chemistry and published in the journal Sex Roles.
State Higher Education Budgets and Non-Traditional Students
As tight budgets for higher education loom in many states this year, data released Wednesday night show how the past few years have seen a relative recovery for colleges that depend on state support — and a continuation of long-term trends of increased reliance on tuition dollars.
Credit Transfer Issue Tops the Agenda at 2 Day Meeting of American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
As higher education issues go, “transfer of credit” is about as mundane and arcane as you can get. It’s roll-your-sleeves-up-and-get-your-hands-dirty type work, involving transcripts and course numbers and modes of delivery and degree audits and other nuts and bolts details of the college admissions and registration process.
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