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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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Lozada, who is majoring in political science and minoring in economics, initially thought she’d be a lawyer, but she is now set on becoming an elected official. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At Now, she plans to work as a health care manager in a hospital or medical center.

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What Does It Mean to Deliver a ‘Black College Education’ Online?

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“It comes down to the curriculum — being able to talk about the Black experience in class, even if it is online, in almost every field, from economics to political science.” Digital tools may not fully convey the experience of going to HBCU football games and step shows, then. But college courses?

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Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education

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While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

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One such essay, written by Susan McWilliams Barndt, who teaches political science at Pomona College, takes up an existential question her students ask, especially these days: Why study the humanities when people are dying? According to Bulaitis and Wilson, thats the plan.