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A few universities help black and Hispanic students reach and finish graduate school

The Hechinger Report

The Meyerhoff Scholars and the Duke Summer Research Opportunity Program, or SROP, are among a handful of attempts to help more students like Hardy go to graduate school, focusing on those from racial and ethnic backgrounds that are not well represented there. Duke Building, which houses several of the university’s research labs.

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The number of 18-year-olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges — and the economy 

The Hechinger Report

The impact of this is economic decline, Jeff Strohl, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said bluntly. Still more new research, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, projects that the pace of college closings could now accelerate. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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