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

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The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling. Fifty-five percent enroll right after high school , down from 61 percent in 2016 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The university did not respond to questions about the status of this process.

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

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If I was still a high school senior, I wouldn’t come here,” she says. If I was still a high school senior,” said Witherspoon, who is scheduled to graduate in the spring, “I wouldn’t come here.”. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? Rural ones.

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

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Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

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When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

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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 Most enlisted veterans, on the other hand, have been out of an academic setting for years and many didn’t have the grades, test scores or desire to apply to a top university when they were in high school. She carried a 4.0

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

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When lots of 18-year-olds were pouring out of high schools, “it was easy to wait on the applications to come in,” said FAU President John Kelly, in his office overlooking the campus ornamented with palm trees. That’s not the case anymore.”.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

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Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Political science. And that, I think, is a part of the politics of resentment. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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