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How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

The Hechinger Report

It’s a lot more challenging to be able to concentrate and fully deliver,” said Gallardo, 20, who is a junior majoring in political science, and the first in his family to go to college. “I And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril.

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

ED Surge

“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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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. Now, she plans to work as a health care manager in a hospital or medical center.

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

The Hechinger Report

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

ED Surge

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? The variability of what counts as public humanities creates interesting points of departure to explore.