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

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Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. Fifty-five percent enroll right after high school , down from 61 percent in 2016 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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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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A surprising reason keeping students from finishing college: A lack of transportation

The Hechinger Report

In New Orleans, Dillard University, the University of New Orleans and Delgado Community College have started conversations and shared data with local economic development organizations and transit agencies to coordinate regional transportation solutions for students. has offered a transit pass since 2016.

Sociology 145
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How career and technical education shuts out Black and Latino students from high-paying professions

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They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. This year, enrollment in its engineering courses was 44 percent Black and 44 percent white, compared with 31 percent Black and 63 percent white in 2016.

Education 145
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‘We’re stronger than we’ve ever been’: A Mississippi district shows that integrated schools pay off

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Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. But students from all economic and racial backgrounds have helped the district rack up accolades and earn an A rating like some of its wealthier neighbors.

K-12 122
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Ivy League degree: Now what?

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“I wish I’d had somebody keeping it really real about this transition,” says Victoria Shantrell Asbury, a sociology graduate student at Harvard who moderated the November forum and was a low-income first gen undergraduate at Stanford University. at Harvard, says economic success does not require rejecting your roots.

Economics 107
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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

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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.

Sociology 108