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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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