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

The Hechinger Report

Related: Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”. has offered a transit pass since 2016. Sophie Goodman is a senior studying sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, also known as SUNY New Paltz, about 85 miles north of New York City.

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

The Hechinger Report

They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. The analysis offers a comprehensive look at data that states will be required to report to the federal government at the end of this year under the Carl D. Perkins Act.

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Some students are even afraid to apply for scholarships, not wanting to risk entering their personal information in databases they fear may fall into the hands of the federal government. “I

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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. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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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

Sociology 110
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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, a former student pled guilty to hanging a noose around a campus statue of James Meredith, the student white protesters fought to keep out more than 50 years ago. That to me is how you fully reconcile,” said McNeil, a member of the university’s student government who was born in Grenada, Mississippi.

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Luther Gerlach

Anthropology News

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.