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

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It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. But this strategy had a fundamental error.

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Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Jesus Sanchez, University of New Mexico

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Jesus Sanchez, University of New Mexico Jesús Sanchez is a BA/MA political science student at the University of New Mexico. A 2024 Truman Scholarship finalist and 2024 Clauve Outstanding Senior, Jesús is passionate about basic needs and welfare policy. He is also a member of the UNM Political Science Honors program.

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More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades

The Hechinger Report

But after getting a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of New England — for which he’s still paying off his student loans — Kelly realized that what he actually wanted to do was become a firefighter; after all, he said, unlike a politician, no one is ever angry to see a firefighter show up. “If

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Rural colleges aren’t supplying the workers rural businesses and agriculture need

The Hechinger Report

Many states have financially neglected rural community colleges, which don’t usually have the local tax base or private money available to urban and suburban schools, said Stephen Katsinas, a University of Alabama political science professor who directs that school’s Educational Policy Center.

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New Orleans finally has control of its own schools, but will all parents really have a say?

The Hechinger Report

They complain that competition remains the central tenet of New Orleans’s education system, and that local control has only given more affluent families yet another advantage. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor who studies education policy, sees a pattern in who is succeeding in this new era.

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

The Hechinger Report

For many reasons, graduate programs make up a particularly attractive market both for these companies and for universities looking to shore up their bottom lines, said Kevin Carey, vice president for education policy and knowledge management at the think tank New America.

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Connecting the past and present: Political scientist brings expertise to Wikipedia during election year

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“I had noticed things that were missing on Wikipedia, for example the article on women’s suffrage does not include important material on the contributions of women of color, but I was afraid of the practical, technical side of editing,” said Liebell, a political science professor at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. “I