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Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Robert Seddig, Passed Away

Political Science Now

Professor Seddig was a long-time political science faculty member at Allegheny College. He graduated cum laude in 1963 from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, with a major in government and international relations. program in Politics at Princeton University where he specialized in U.S. He then entered the Ph.D.

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

The Hechinger Report

Related: After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open His classmates who will be affected by the changes “are such creatives at heart, and they all came here because they loved what they were doing,” said Bertram, who is also student government representative for the university’s College of Creative Arts.

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Eric Schickler Receives the 2024 Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award

Political Science Now

Since 1997, he has been associated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he has chaired the Department of Political Science and served as co-director of the Institute of Government Studies. David Greenstone Award from the APSA Politics and History Organized Section. He has also received the Philip E.

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Community Dynamics among Syrian Refugees

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. As a result, by 2016, around one million Syrians lived in Lebanon, and approximately 630,000 Syrians resided in Jordan. Komal Preet Kaur is a Ph.D.

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

The Hechinger Report

It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 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

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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. The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Political science. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. He’s coauthor of the book “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America.”

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