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New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

The Hechinger Report

He said, ‘Kenyon is working on it, but there is a predominant brand of young person who attends the school,’” recalled Margolin, now a political science major who loves her school but recognizes it has a lot of work ahead to become more diverse. But some students feel they have not gone far enough. Next stop, college. “It

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Student Voice: ‘He will only be in the White House a handful of years. The rest of us will be together for much longer than that’

The Hechinger Report

Related: Defying political pushback, private colleges quietly enroll undocumented students. Instead, we rally around our shared values, such as community engagement and lifelong learning, which allows us to mobilize for social justice issues. The rest of us will be together for much longer than that. We all share common ground.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

That proportion was up by more than 8 percentage points from 2016 , and has been closing in on the voting rate for adults of all ages. The political division they’ve witnessed hasn’t discouraged young voters, said LoMonte, a sophomore political science major from Bloomfield, New Jersey, who was wearing a “TCNJ Votes” T-shirt.

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2024 Post-Election Reflection Series: Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump

Political Science Now

Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump by Andrea Silva , University of North Texas Trends in Latino Voting Behavior What factors explain the increasing support for Trump and other Republican candidates among Latino voters from 2016 to 2024?