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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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Increasingly skeptical students, employees want colleges to show them the money

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billion as of 2016 through a complicated financial instrument called an interest-rate swap. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. In fact, interest rates were dragged down by the economic recession, costing Michigan State alone $130.2 Endowment returns were 12.2

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

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Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. They have an economic impact. Jon: Right, Kirk.

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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.

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