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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

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Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Photo: Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

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Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. That, too, is likely to accelerate. “To Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus.

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OPINION: In higher ed, lower enrollment isn’t the only sign of trouble

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institution — Oxford University — as the best in the world in 2016-17. And in the 2018 rankings, Oxford University remained number one, while the University of Cambridge ranked second (jumping from fourth place in 2016-17). The Times Higher Education / World University Ranking ranked, for the first time in 12 years, a non-U.S.

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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

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Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. have a shortage of qualified foreign language instructors at the K-12 level for the 2016–2017 school year.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. I have two little ones and their dads don’t help me,” said Perez, 45. Census Bureau.

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Panicked universities in search of students are adding thousands of new majors

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The 15 universities and colleges nationwide that responded to the expansion of legalized gambling by rushing to add programs in casino management, for instance, produced all of 34 graduates in 2016, or about two graduates per program, an analysis by the education consulting firm Eduventures found.

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

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It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Last April, as the coronavirus swept through the city, our students and their relatives, many of whom work front-line jobs, were especially vulnerable to the health and economic devastation befalling New York.