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COLUMN: As elite college applications soar, legacy admissions still give wealthy and connected students an edge

The Hechinger Report

Neither is Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University and the author of The Diversity Bargain. “I The pandemic has dealt additional economic blows to colleges during a time when they were already worried about declining enrollment and the fiscal health of their institutions. Progress has been slow.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Josipa Roksa: Students are not spending adequate time on academics and academic pursuits. Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.