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OPINION: Our schools must tell a better and more complete story about our growing economic inequality

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With a focus on diverse life histories, the project shows how one crisis can cascade into another, morphing into a constellation of social, interpersonal, aspirational and financial losses. In 2017, Ricardo lost his job due to the devastations of Hurricane Maria.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

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Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

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Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. Vitter in June 2017, six sites were chosen. OXFORD, Miss.

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

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In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. “A

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities.

Economics 126
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Luxury private student housing further divides rich and poor on campuses

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For much of the last century, living on campus was considered “an integral part of the educational pathway,” said Carla Yanni, a professor of art history at Rutgers University and author of a new book about the history of dormitories at American colleges and universities. Photo: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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In late 2017, she was laid off. Thompson, whose father “was an illiterate coal miner” and mother only completed eighth grade, but who earned a doctorate in sociology, said raising educational levels is critical to prosperity in the state. After her pay rose by just $1.60 They picked classes and planned a schedule.

Economics 144