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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Research shows links between language learning and other enhancements — more flexible thinking, greater empathy, protection against age-related cognitive decline — although findings are hardly robust. For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. Mississippi Learning.

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The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones

The Hechinger Report

In fact, the proportion of students on college campuses from the lowest-income families is going up , the Pew Research Center reports, while the share of students from the middle has fallen in the last two decades from 48 percent to 42 percent at private, nonprofit institutions, and from 48 percent to 40 percent at public four-year universities.

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

percent of worldwide humanitarian aid goes to education of any kind, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization , or UNESCO. Many university-age refugees want to study in the United States, but only a tiny handful has succeeded. In Syria alone, from which 4.8 It’s not affordable.

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

percent of worldwide humanitarian aid goes to education of any kind, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization , or UNESCO. Many university-age refugees want to study in the United States, but only a tiny handful has succeeded. In Syria alone, from which 4.8 It’s not affordable.