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

The Hechinger Report

Holly Buroughs sits in front of the Jackson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25 programs in disciplines including history, political science and biology. The university did not respond to questions about the status of this process.

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

The Hechinger Report

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. Thomas University. With her undergraduate degree, “I couldn’t get anything more than serving jobs,” says Vazquez-Aldana.

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Shamira Gelbman Receives the 2025 APSA Award for Teaching Innovation

Political Science Now

Her innovation in teaching is exemplified in her Caught Up in a Crisis of Victory Project with students in her Politics of the Civil Rights Movement course. The Project connected students to archival work as a source of political science research and learning, and helped students have an engaged stake in learning more.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.