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

The Hechinger Report

At Delta State, for instance, enrollment is down by nearly a quarter since 2014. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25 programs in disciplines including history, political science and biology. When Ennis got to Delta State, he also found the university was overestimating its revenue from facilities and merchandise.

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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: Interpretive Process Tracing (QMMR C)

Political Science Now

We begin, meta-theoretically and conceptually, by building on the practice turn in sociology and political science. At EUI, he offers seminars on international relations theory, international institutions, qualitative methods, and philosophies of social science.

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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.