Rural location, race influence students' access to college
Students from rural communities who want to attend college face challenges on their pathways to higher education, according to a new study from a University of Georgia researcher.
Students from rural communities who want to attend college face challenges on their pathways to higher education, according to a new study from a University of Georgia researcher.
Social Sciences
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People who tend to recognize similarities between people they know and people depicted in the media are more likely to believe common myths about sexual assault, according to a new study co-led by a Cornell researcher.
Social Sciences
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Education
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(AP)—At the nation's community colleges, more than half of students are forced to take classes in basic math and English, skills that they should have learned years ago.
Social Sciences
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Social Sciences
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Each summer, community college students from Colorado and surrounding states converge on the CU Boulder campus to participate in an immersive nine-week research program. A recent CIRES-led study reveals that when the students ...
Education
Jan 4, 2024
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When Cincinnati Christian University became aware of its declining enrollment and dwindling tuition revenue in 2015, the university made a "series of bold bets" to stay afloat.
Education
Nov 7, 2019
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A team of researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute have embarked on the largest, most comprehensive longitudinal study of how U.S. college students ...
Education
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Popular culture may have an uncharitable attitude toward community colleges, but a University of Illinois expert in education says they are an underfunded community asset and an invaluable resource for first-generation college ...
Social Sciences
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Left or right. Among other uses, these terms can generally identify most Americans' political beliefs—liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. When these views are at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, ...
Political science
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