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

The Hechinger Report

In many instances, they are the first in their families to go to college, can’t afford expensive graduate educations and have little help navigating the route to an advanced degree. Students from around the country in the Duke Summer Research Opportunity Program gather in the Nanaline H. Among the U.S. percent were black and 7.1

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More colleges are opening branch campuses in high-demand markets

The Hechinger Report

But with customers getting harder to find, more colleges and universities are going to where the students are: in fast-growing cities that don’t already have a big supply of higher education institutions, such as Phoenix, Austin and Las Vegas. Las Vegas, by comparison, “is for all practical purposes an education desert.

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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

Its a looming crisis for the economy, with fewer graduates eventually coming through the pipeline to fill jobs that require college educations, even as international rivals increase the proportions of their populations with degrees. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? That means they already have 2.7

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