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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25 programs in disciplines including history, political science and biology.

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Rural universities, already few and far between, are being stripped of majors

The Hechinger Report

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. We’re just like lost causes if we’re from small towns.”.

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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. She closed, at 1 a.m., forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. Political science. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps? Jon: Right, Kirk. Criminal justice.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

The default here is “american-political-science-association.csl”. Territorial Disputes and the Politics of #> Individual Well-Being.” Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? Understanding #> Preferences for Authoritarian Political Systems.” Political Behavior* #> 39(2): 457–78. #> > #> ———.

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Urban Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

These studies usually include the systems of bureaucratic regulation, urban politics, welfare administration, urban renewal, and economic conditions that shape local communities. Others examine the disproportionate growth of primate cities at the expense of regional towns as a result of economic development in Third World countries.

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Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce a new editorial team for the American Political Science Review ( APSR )—the oldest and most prestigious political science journal in the world. Her other work has been published in leading journals in political science.