The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2020

Life went on until 2016 — the year the dominoes started cascading. After obtaining her bachelor of arts in sociology, she hopes to pursue a master’s degree and become an academic counselor. It took me from 2003 until 2011 to complete the credits needed for my high school diploma. It was also in 2011 that I had my son.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. This is her second year in the profession, and the Illinois State Board of Education recently recognized her as the 2023 Outstanding Teacher of the Year ! Paula Katrina, Victoria & Gariecia are all Golden Apple Scholars.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

College Bridge for All, which launched in 2016, has hired 80 CUNY students on top of the 120 it normally takes on in the summer, at $17 an hour, and given many of them bigger-than-usual caseloads, Myers said. “These college coaches are the people who need this work the most, and also the most qualified to be doing this work.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

Sodexo reported 2016 revenues of more than $21 billion, Aramark , $14.4 This is the demand of some students, not others, and yet all students ultimately pay the price for this,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, who studies the cost of college. It’s big business.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the 2016-17 school year, 44 percent of black students in Mississippi attended a public school considered “intensely segregated,” making the state the 10th most segregated in the nation, according to research compiled by the UCLA Civil Rights Project.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. So far, administrators — as on some other campuses — have said no.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

In 1961, Gerlach was hired as an assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania. Gerlach’s wife of 65 years, Ursula Gerlach (née Solter), passed away in 2016. He is survived by three children: Luther Douglas Gerlach Jr., Suzanne Gerlach-Downie and Andrew Gerlach.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

“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. What if your family friend is a fast-food cook?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Jimmie Conner is an undergraduate at California State University, Fullerton, studying sociology and business. At CSUF, 106 students participate, bringing the total to more than 300 since 2016. But back in 2016, she was hired in part to answer the mail. What Conner didn’t realize he’d be signing up for was a new extended family.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Jon: So, Kirk, here’s a statistic many people might not know: Rural students graduate from high school at a higher rate than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. But they go to college at a lower rate than suburban students. Philosophy.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Neither had had an easy time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

As the college itself put it in its 2016 equity and inclusion plan : “The community college does not look like the community.”. I’m white and a lot of my students aren’t,” said Susannah Dolance, a professor of sociology and gender studies who signed up for the tutoring program seven years ago. “I Paul’s residents are people of color.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It’s the latest “microcollege” from Bard, which started a college-in-prison initiative in 1999 and a program for student moms in 2016. Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. One of the first to apply to the new program was a library security guard.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

For the past few years there have been a small number of funded teacher training posts specifically in Psychology or Social Sciences south of the border, and since 2016, the University of Strathclyde has run Scotland’s first – and so far, only – PGDE in Secondary Psychology. Some have their own degree programmes, too.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The first was the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, where a gunman killed 49 people at an LGBTQ+ club in Orlando. Jack Wippell is a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Once media attention shifts elsewhere, and societal pressures return to the status quo, public attitudes will tend to revert.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

Metz, who inherited the house, has lived there since she was released from prison in 2016. Even after President Barack Obama granted her clemency in 2016 , Metz believed she couldn’t go to college. At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Both men and women complain that it’s harder to get A’s in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. And they’re right. But it turns out that women are suffering a much larger “grade penalty” in the sciences than men are. “But I’m afraid that it is.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

She succeeded Rick Simpson, who served nine speakers, from 1991 to 2016, advising them and other Democratic caucus members on education policy. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Hers is a distinctly powerful position.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

For example,” the paper argues, “a machine learning micro-credential might involve courses in mathematics, computer science, sociology, and ethics. In 2016, then-MIT dean Christine Ortiz left the university to start a new type of university without lectures or classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

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. Related: Many state flagship universities leave black and Latino students behind. They suffered 100 percent casualties. Photo: Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

It’s their social time, emotional time, physical activity time, time to connect with other children, their time to be imaginative,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess.”

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Route—a space created from movement—is one of four types of spatial figure in sociology of space (as proposed by Martina Löw and Hubert Knoblauch ). The prefix “aero” comes from the Greek noun “meteoron” and adjective “meteoros”: “meta” means a higher level, while “aoros” means elevated, floating in the air.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022). in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and French and an M.A in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Vermont has also seen five private colleges close since 2016, each a conduit that once brought young people there who put down roots and stayed. Related: Pandemic speeds up influx of remote workers to small cities Maine has the nation’s oldest population by median age; Vermont, the third oldest.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

He’s now studying sociology along with markets, management and the economy , while working two part-time jobs on campus so he can send money home. Wealth disparities aside, Inoa is floored by his freedom to take a pre-med track along with sociology and a dizzying array of courses in subjects to which he’d never been exposed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Kirk: Sitting around a big oak table, Epstein and I dust off the 1966 leather-bound course catalog and compare it to the 2016 paperback. Kirk: As we flip through the 2016 catalog. Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

billion as of 2016 through a complicated financial instrument called an interest-rate swap. million by 2016, including nearly $18 million in termination fees, the students contend — at the same time that tuition was rising significantly faster than the national average. We decided this was something we wanted to make noise about.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

By the fall of 2016, the year before Alharthi enrolled, it had 549 — 8 percent of its undergraduate student body of about 7,000. After having had great success at increasing its international student population, Tennessee State saw a big drop starting around the fall of 2016. Photo: Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They have been found to be responsible for interference through “trolling” activities in the EU referendum in the UK and the 2016 US presidential election as well as during other political events around the world (see here and here ).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. Most parents want their kids to go to school. They want them at school learning. It’s their identity.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Republican president-elect Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City. Aaron Pallas is professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

And while voters aged 18 to 24 broke for the Democrat in 2016 , they did so less enthusiastically than they had done for Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008. Hall, a busy senior majoring in sociology who is also the president of the Black Student Union at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, cast her first presidential ballot for Clinton.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida. Most recently, they’ve removed one of the Gen. 26, 2012: Trayvon Martin Murdered Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

Utah Virtual Academy’s 2016 graduation rate was just 42%. Aaron Pallas is professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The Ohio Virtual Academy received an F for its Graduation Rate component due to a 53% rate of graduation in four years. The Idaho Virtual Academy’s 2015 rate is only 33%.

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