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

The Hechinger Report

The University of Alaska System scaled back more than 40 , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources and hospitality administration. The University of Alaska System scaled back more than 40 programs , including earth sciences, hospitality administration and geography and environmental resources.

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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. If I was still a high school senior,” said Witherspoon, who is scheduled to graduate in the spring, “I wouldn’t come here.”.

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

What subjects people study, what fields they enter, even geography — all matter in determining income, said Anthony Carnevale, director of the center and a co-author of the report. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Political science. And Emporia State in Kansas, Missouri Western State University, the University of Alaska system. And these aren’t just a few programs here and there that were dropped, Kirk, but dozens. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Kirk: Okay, we get it. And I know you’ve done a lot of reporting on this issue.

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Urban Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

Contemporary situation: There was a death and rebirth of urban anthropology in the 1990s and 2000s through the addition of spatial theories drawn from geography and a fuller understanding of the political economy of place.

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Learn more about: “Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project”

Political Science Now

Project Title: Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project Moira Lynch, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Dr. Moira Lynch (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor in the department of politics, geography and international studies at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls.

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Careers at Community Colleges: Applying to Jobs at 2-Year Institutions

Political Science Now

Political Science from UC Riverside and is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Imperial Valley College. Dr. Cauchon specializes in International Relations and Political Theory, with a focus on environmental justice and transnational social movements. in Political Science from Richland Community College.