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How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

The Hechinger Report

I don’t know if there’s one thing — I think it’s a blend,” said Louie Rodriguez, vice provost and dean for undergraduate education at UC Riverside, where in the 2021-22 school year 46 percent of freshmen received Pell Grants and 75 percent of Pell recipients graduated within six years.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Pure sciences like physics and chemistry are included in the liberal arts and sciences but not the humanities. That’s true for college students too.

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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

They opened opportunities for economic and social mobility and moved my parents’ generation beyond the experiences of their grandparents and great-grandparents, many of whom, as first- and second-generation immigrants to this country in the nineteenth century, started their working lives as farmers or day laborers.

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In Memoriam: Renowned Political Scientist and former APSA President, Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Passes Away

Political Science Now

He also completed an APSA Oral History Interview in 1993, where he shares his experiences in the discipline of political science. He was also President of the Policy Studies Organization and a Board Member of the Social Science Council. He returned to the faculty at Wayne State University in 1966, where he remained until 1969.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., In addition, the median income for U.S.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

By 2021, the state officially ended all remaining P2P lending platforms to curb risks from spreading to other financial sectors. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

That means finding something that hits home whether you teach A level Economics or KS3 Music, and everything in between. Habit formation limits growth in teacher effectiveness: A review of converging evidence from neuroscience and social science. Why aren’t we doing instructional coaching even though everyone else seems to be?