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

The Hechinger Report

Related: After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open His classmates who will be affected by the changes “are such creatives at heart, and they all came here because they loved what they were doing,” said Bertram, who is also student government representative for the university’s College of Creative Arts.

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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

Levy holds advanced degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies in Adult Education emphasis on teaching diverse at-risk learners and in Political Science, emphasis on Political Philosophy, earned at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-four years.

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

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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. Dr. Sarah E.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

The Hechinger Report

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up. The university overspent its budget by millions of dollars in each of the last five years.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. In Ohio, which has 14 public universities and 24 branch campuses, the government cut its higher education budget by $110 million. There is big tension over purpose and identity.”.

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

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In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I had sent to war, those students, as government leaders later in life, would think harder before sending other people’s children off to war.”. Aimee Chartier served four years in the U.S. Photo: John O'Boyle for The Hechinger Report. “I

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Political science. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. He’s coauthor of the book “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America.” Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

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