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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

Not only do advisers, tutors, career counselors and coaches reach out; even the student government is alerted, said Liz Rainey, executive director of student success. And at Loyola University in New Orleans, an alarm is triggered if a student requests a transcript, signaling that he or she may be about to withdraw.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Morales ended up enrolling at the University of Puerto Rico, where she finished in December with a degree in political science. They also drive a frenzy elsewhere of practice tests, tutoring and other strategies to gain advantage in the competition for admission that’s largely absent from the public high schools here.

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Older cadets at Air Force Academy are a sign of the times in higher education

The Hechinger Report

But other states and institutions, and the federal government, offer little such encouragement for older students, also known as “reentry adults.”. That’s to say nothing of administrative offices that are open only on weekdays during business hours when many adult students are at work, or tutoring that’s not available at night or on weekends.

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College students react to their first presidential election as adults

The Hechinger Report

A student group committed to free markets and limited government gave students at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., Political science major Tabitha Pitzer, 20, showed up here with a few close friends at 1:45 a.m. a chance to express their thoughts on the election. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. CORVALLIS, Ore. —

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