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

The Hechinger Report

The cuts “take away from us, our education.” Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to Hechinger’s free biweekly higher education newsletter. That kind of frustration is growing.

Geography 135
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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Anthropology News

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Grafting ethnography onto journalism has been suggested for decades—it’s time to put it into practice.

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Curricular Innovations in Political Science at Community Colleges: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges Virtual Workshop Series

Political Science Now

Curricular innovations include utilizing new textbooks or workbooks, creating a new active learning experience, and utilizing APSA Educate resources to improve face-to-face or online learning environments. She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-four years.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

If asked to assess the current posture of higher education leaders across the nation, it would be reasonable to describe it as a “defensive crouch.” English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. People in rural America already have far less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Today, Gentry is the CEO of Partners for Rural Impact.

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

The Hechinger Report

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects.

Geography 131
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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Her ongoing work includes a co-edited volume on concepts, data, and methods in comparative law and politics, and projects examining institutions of electoral governance in Latin America, and how research methods are used in political science scholarship. for work, education, or commerce. for work, education, or commerce.