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Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment

The Hechinger Report

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. It helps us see we’re just as good as everyone else.”.

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As economy rebounds, state funding for higher education isn’t bouncing back

The Hechinger Report

Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. Dustin Weeden, senior policy specialist, National Conference of State Legislatures. Pennsylvania’s not the only state where higher ed funding remains stubbornly down since the beginning of the recession.

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As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

The Hechinger Report

And Nichols College, where Maymon is a junior double-majoring in economics and finance, fit the same profile: small and with a comparatively low endowment and a student body drawn mostly from a few surrounding states. “It Mark Naigles, head of the faculty senate at Nichols College. While we’re pruning we’re also adding.”.

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

“Until we had a deep look at ourselves, we didn’t realize that we were selling them [students] short,” said James Capp, assistant provost for academic operations and planning at Florida Atlantic University, which Dickinson attends and where, as recently as 2014, fewer than one in five students was managing to graduate within four years.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

The default here is “american-political-science-association.csl”. Social Science Quarterly* #> 93(5): 1202–17. #> Territorial Disputes and the Politics of #> Individual Well-Being.” Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? Understanding #> Preferences for Authoritarian Political Systems.”

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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. At Delta State, for instance, enrollment is down by nearly a quarter since 2014. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25.

Geography 136