Lumina Foundation is working to increase the share of adults in the U.S. labor force with college degrees or other credentials of value leading to economic prosperity.
Despite headlines proclaiming tough times for recent college graduates, the college wage premium still holds. Yes, artificial intelligence is disrupting entry-level work, but don’t mistake short-term chaos for economic collapse. The college degree has endured for a reason, experts contend. What we need isn’t fewer of them, but better-aligned ones: programs tailored to workforce demand, policies that boost affordability and completion, and institutions that help students translate education into opportunity.
The bartender with a doctorate will always be good copy. But the college degree remains the surest, sturdiest path to prosperity.
The White House is developing a plan that could change how universities are awarded research grants, giving a competitive advantage to schools that pledge to adhere to the values and policies of the Trump administration on admissions, hiring, and other matters.
The new system, described by two White House officials, represents a shift away from the unprecedented wave of investigations and punishments being delivered to individual schools and toward an effort to bring large swaths of colleges into compliance with Trump priorities all at once.
Today's higher education leaders are facing an avalanche of challenges, including issues involving diversity, equity, and inclusion, politics, and finances. The pressures have become so severe that the average tenure of a college president is now less than six years, according to the American Council on Education.
In this interview, Beverly Daniel Tatum—two-time college president, New York Times bestselling author, and one of the country’s most influential voices on race and education—shares leadership lessons for driving positive change in turbulent times.
Since the mid-1940s, the National Institutes of Health has sent billions of dollars to university researchers whose work has led to the creation of scores of lifesaving treatments for a range of diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease. By one estimate, NIH-funded research was linked to roughly 99 percent of drugs that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved between 2010 and 2019.
However, patient advocates and researchers warn that the United States won’t be able to maintain its global standing as a powerhouse of medical breakthroughs if the NIH loses 40 percent of its budget, as President Donald Trump has proposed.
A.D. Carson is one of more than 300 professors on the "Professor Watch List," a website created by Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk that documents professors who have spoken about anything the far right deems “radical.”
In the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination, Capital B spoke to several professors targeted on the list. Like Carson, they remain on high alert, but the threats haven’t stopped them from creating spaces for students to speak freely about controversial topics. Yet, the professors’ supporters still have major concerns: What does safety look like off campus, and how is free speech protected on college campuses following Kirk’s death?
Is artificial intelligence transforming the way college administrators work? They are adopting AI tools in budgeting, enrollment management, and facility offices, but piecemeal and often cautiously.
AI evangelists say it’s a game changer that will transform how they do their jobs, but even boosters acknowledge the growing pains and unknowns as the technology burgeons and morphs from week to week.
