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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

By: Dr. Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education For the past several years, MPSA has been partnering with Wiki Education to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of topics related to Political Science. Thus far, Wiki Education has worked with 164 courses in the field of Political Science.

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APSA Seeks Executive Director

Political Science Now

Executive Director Full Time Position – (OPEN) Senior Management District of Columbia, Washington, DC, US The American Political Science Association seeks an Executive Director to serve as the chief executive officer of the Association beginning in or around August 2024.

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

It’s about a shift in the culture,” Capp said. I probably called once a day,” said Francis, now a junior majoring in political science and sociology who plans to go to law school. The share of students who drop out between their first and second years has fallen from 25 percent to 18 percent.

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. But her onetime plans to major in political science now bend toward religion and thoughts of homesteading.

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates. And that, in turn, is why nearly 60 percent take longer than four years to finish , or never do.

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Rural schools join forces to make college the rule rather than the exception

The Hechinger Report

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Smaller budgets also make it difficult to pay teachers competitive wages, she said, especially in high-demand areas like science and math. The culture changed. Rural ones.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Morales ended up enrolling at the University of Puerto Rico, where she finished in December with a degree in political science. We don’t have that culture of studying for [the SAT]. “The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Out of a population of 3.2 It’s not a thing.