The story of a Chicago woman who is beating the odds and getting a bachelor's degree while working full-time & raising 2 kids. She says of the support she's gotten from @neiupi profs: "That’s so special & hard to find." #chicago #highered @wbez @neiu

RT @WBEZ: Trump plans to try to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Most school funding is local, as are policy decisions. But his…

"Parents are like, ‘We came here for a better life and to be productive members [of society]. And if we can’t do that, at the very least, we can make sure our child gets their degree.’ ” #college @opencampusmedia @WBEZ

RT @IvonPadillaR: “Davis said, [her faculty advisor] singled her out for menial tasks that he did not assign to her non-Black labmates, lik…

A Black student at @UChicago says she experienced racial discrimination. Now her PhD is at risk. @WBEZ @opencampusmedia

“The only way my loans will ever get paid off is if I either die or win the lottery, which I don’t play,” said Valerie Scott, who owes $389,000 for a degree she completed at Argosy, a for-profit college, more than a decade ago. @WBEZ @opencampusmedia

@BasedYose @WBEZ @UChicago @opencampusmedia Happy holidays to you too!

A @UChicago student was arrested at her dorm two months after a #Gaza protest on campus and faces a pair of felonies. A witness says the accused student “didn’t lay a hand on any cops.” My latest for @WBEZ & @opencampusmedia.

Thanks for sharing @kschorsch!

RT @WBEZ: Public colleges in Illinois have become particularly unaffordable. Legislators are considering a funding formula that would make…

That's all folks! Seeya on bluesky: (handle=LKPwrites)

RT @erichoov: I used to think that the longer I stayed in this biz, the more I’d see the fixation on “elite colleges” wane. I was wrong! B…

"U.S. taxpayer-funded assistance should not come in the form of a blank check – even to our closest partners." -MD Sen. @ChrisVanHollen

RT @WBEZreset: If you are what you say you are, a superstar… you might be Chicago’s own Lupe Fiasco! This week, he joined us on Reset. http…

Federal officials say the #FAFSA will open up to all students and their families later this month, still in a beta form, before it is officially released...if I'm understanding this correctly?

All I really know how to do in this moment is to listen, learn and share stories. Personal ones, in particular. And in this moment I cannot forget that there is extreme violence happening in Gaza. And real people, like Mkhaimar, are impacted.

Ditto. My mom would have turned 74 on Tuesday. I remember hearing the smile in her voice when Obama won in 2008, the day before her birthday. She volunteered for his campaign. She taught me compassion & empathy & to fight for a just world. I hope I can do that for my kids now.

"I was born and grew up in a place where everything is politics. Back in 1948 … my father and my mother were expelled from their villages in historic Palestine. That’s the beginning of our story." @WBEZ @opencampusmedia