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A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

ED Surge

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. The institution hopes to increase enrollment among high school students by 50 percent more by 2028. “We Brookdale Community College is in a state that has named dual enrollment as a priority.

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Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

The Hechinger Report

Ashley is the first in her family to attend college, a freshman studying child psychology on a full scholarship to prestigious Oxford College of Emory University, where annual estimated costs approached $80,000 this year. Some have cited advice from legal counsel in declining to release the racial and ethnic composition for the class of 2028.

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Suthan Krishnarajan Receives the 2024 Heinz I. Eulau Award for American Political Science Review for “Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior”

Political Science Now

The paper bridges literatures from political psychology and comparative politics, by applying insights from the former to explain important phenomena pertaining to anti-democratic behavior and, presumably in extension, democratic stability and change.