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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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More colleges are opening branch campuses in high-demand markets

The Hechinger Report

Market research shows that there will be high demand for the graduates of the doctoral programs in physical and occupational therapy that Hawai‘i Pacific is opening here on one floor of a building in an industrial park it will share with the administrative offices of a casino operator. Eighty-four U.S.

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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

Still more new research, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, projects that the pace of college closings could now accelerate. Colleges and universities, on average, are admitting a larger proportion of their applicants than they did 20 years ago, new research by the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute finds.

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