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

The Hechinger Report

Whether in response to the students’ arguments or not, the state did, in fact, raise spending for higher education for the coming 2016-2017 year, by 2.5 One nonprofit advocacy group calculates that 10 states spend more on employee pensions than on higher education; in Illinois, more than half of the $4.1

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

That’s in part because the net price, or the amount students actually pay after discounts and financial aid, has increased nearly twice as fast for graduate as for undergraduate programs in the 10 years ending in 2016. Graduate school is way more expensive than undergrad,” Rivero said. Tuition and fees at the law school at St.

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Rural schools join forces to make college the rule rather than the exception

The Hechinger Report

And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education

The Hechinger Report

The company also announced a partnership in August with the University of London and the London School of Economics and Political Science to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in data science and business analytics for $25,000.

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How Violence Against LGBTQ+ People Shapes Public Attitudes

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. The first was the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, where a gunman killed 49 people at an LGBTQ+ club in Orlando. American Political Science Review , 119.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

That proportion was up by more than 8 percentage points from 2016 , and has been closing in on the voting rate for adults of all ages. The political division they’ve witnessed hasn’t discouraged young voters, said LoMonte, a sophomore political science major from Bloomfield, New Jersey, who was wearing a “TCNJ Votes” T-shirt.