The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A Georgetown report published in October showed that from 1980 to 2019, average college costs rose 169 percent, while earnings for those aged 22 to 27 rose only 19 percent. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It That is an ongoing fear.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. That money was part of more than $4 million that Minnesota State allocated in performance-based funding in 2019 to colleges that exceeded their expected outcomes for all students, and for students of color, in particular.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.”. I struggled with that.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

But the significant degree of variation for most of the characteristics illustrates that the state is far from culturally monolithic. Also, see a working paper on regional differences in personality published in 2019 by the geography department at the University of Marburg in Germany. Rentfrow et al., Got a strange map?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since the residence’s opening in 2018, 21 CSUF students have been given safe, secure housing with wraparound services provided by formerly incarcerated staff members who reinforce a culture of striving and mattering. Under the old felony murder rule, which California reformed in 2019, Conner was charged as if he’d pulled the trigger.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It feels like a broader attack on truthweve moved backwards, Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts who has written widely on affirmative action, told me. Shes among those who believe in its benefits, supported by a large body of research.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Fahad Alharthi is a recipient of the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission scholarship, which covers his educational costs at Tennessee State University. But he did have a scholarship guaranteed by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission, to use to learn English and then attend a U.S. Photo: Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report. college. .

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The program, organized by a Kentucky-based nonprofit of the same name, had brought together 14 students from four universities in the state — a mix of secular, religious, urban and rural institutions — as part of a semester-long course on developing ways to communicate with people of different races, religions, cultures, politics and worldviews.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

In 2019, the Trump administration prohibited providers in the program from referring patients for abortion except in rare cases, leading almost 1,000 clinics to leave the program. She said a negative cultural judgment prevailed there, even in a school specifically for these students.

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