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

The Hechinger Report

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise. Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students.

Education 104