Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Jamie Merisotis The Lumina Foundation announced a new goal to increase the number of Americans with education and training to 75%. We had to rethink how education creates opportunities. That goal is by 2040, 75% of working-age adults (25 to 64) in the U.S. Currently, 44.1% of people have such a credential.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

D uring the COVID-19 pandemic, Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous students had less contact with teachers and less access to computers with stable internet connections compared to white students, Prabhakar said. For many decades, we've seen very well-intentioned STEM efforts focused on equity and opportunity,” Prabhakar said.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Blogs Reduce long-term cost growth to rightsize your university Higher ed's budget woes are becoming harder to ignore. At the same time, 28 states continued to fund higher education at lower levels than before the pandemic, and the average tuition discount rate at private colleges reached an all-time high of 56.2%

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