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APRIL 27, 2023

The USDA has been loaning tens of millions of dollars to rural colleges and universities, some of which couldn’t get financing from conventional lenders or whose budgets are so precarious that the Education Department has placed them under additional financial scrutiny. It was the Department of Agriculture. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Yvette Hernandez started applying for college scholarships when she was still a junior in high school — 50 in all, by the time she was done — because she knew her family could not afford to pay for her tuition, room, board and other expenses without them. In the end, she won 10 outside private scholarships, adding up to more than $10,000.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

technology job vacancy postings in September 2022 exceeded 804,000, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a need for 3,800 new aerospace engineers every year until 2031–an industry that is already grappling with employee retention and workforce shortages. This doesn’t even include local events hosted by nonprofits, such as D.C.’s

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APRIL 16, 2024

Okay, so you’re going to college. But will the college you pick still have its lights on by the time you get to graduation? It’s a question more and more families are asking as universities and colleges face financial and enrollment challenges, close or merge. Jon: This is College Uncovered. Kirk: Is there a pool?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Supreme Court’s decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions last June fueled heated debates and raised questions about the distribution of opportunities to attend highly selective education institutions. Related: Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action? percent of U.S.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

There are about 2,800 four-year public and nonprofit private colleges and universities in the United States. Yet as we await the Supreme Court’s decision on the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the nation’s gaze is once again narrowed to the most elite and selective 100 institutions: the so-called top 5 percent.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

Beyond the Rankings: College Welcome Guide What kind of culture and political atmosphere does your prospective campus have? To create our College Welcome Guide we relied on more than a dozen data sources. IPEDS data is reported directly by colleges to the U.S. Our dataset includes all two- and four-year colleges.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Like many first-generation low-income students (FGLI) , I began my education at my local community college, Indian River State College in Florida. I felt ostracized and alone until I joined a small group of FGLI students on campus, including some who had also transferred from a community college.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

FAYETTEVILLE, Ohio — Ghosts populate the campus of Chatfield College. They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. The college has closed permanently.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

I viewed my acceptance into this elite private institution as a dooropening, a new opportunity for young Black students like me. Related: Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action? To ignore race in college admissions will not erase the race problem that plagues our nation.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Last month, when more than 200,000 students who had been victims of misconduct by their colleges began getting the news that their federal student loans were cancelled, Amanda Luciano felt a sense of satisfaction — and a pang of despair. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? A federal judge ruled last fall, in Sweet v.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Researchers say a new classification system is needed to help students choose colleges that will serve them well. We have had no shortage of striking headlines about college enrollment trends during the Covid-19 pandemic. But enrollment at for-profit colleges has been on the rise — increasing 5.3%

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This story also appeared in GBH News and National Public Radio The two were in the Adirondacks on vacation, but not even that allowed them an escape from a process that had already begun to consume them: getting the daughter into college. The New York offices of JPMorgan Chase. Are colleges still test optional?

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

WASHINGTON — It was the personalized emails that got Jadyn Turner to consider Catholic University when she was choosing a college. Five million dollars — that’s a lot,” said Turner, who hopes to go into nonprofit work, as she took a break from studying outside the student center. “I This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

. — Striding into a packed community center filled with high school seniors, Atnre Alleyne has a few words of advice for the crowd, members of the first class of college applicants to be shaped by June’s Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions. Before the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v.

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MARCH 29, 2024

When Kim Churches took on the job as head of The Washington Center, a nonprofit organization that provides college students with internships, she was on a mission. Here’s what you need to know The college tries to make sure students get paid or at least subsidized when they do an internship. It was the fall of 2021.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Becker College in Worcester, Mass., is one of more than 800 colleges and 9,000 campuses that have closed since 2004. Despite high profile stories about the closing of small liberal arts colleges, such as California’s Mills College and Vermont’s Green Mountain College, college closures have actually declined in the past five years.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Without that, she can’t decide where to go to college. With college decision deadlines looming, thousands of high school seniors have been stuck in limbo due to the bungled rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid. And when they delay college, Powell said, they are less likely to go at all.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

As a college president and a clinical psychologist, I know this well. Recent headlines tell a distressing story about the mental health of college students. While the news articles are alarming, it is worth noting that much of the data they cite comes from self-reporting by students. Our students are struggling.

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JUNE 19, 2023

The ban effectively funneled many Latino and Black students to less-selective schools across the state , including community colleges, for-profit institutions and the California State University campuses. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the intersectionality of race and education underscored my personal journey.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As these events demonstrate, our students, faculty, staff and institutions are at severe and sustained risk from the increasingly destabilized climate. We are in the vanguard, too, of real solutions: Much of the research documenting the climate crisis and advancing potential responses originates from colleges and universities.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

For many Americans, a college education is a luxury that feels worlds away. Even so, the reality of paying for college can be hard to fathom. The University of Central Arkansas is a far less selective institution, accepting 90 percent of all applicants. Even if there are multiple income-earners in their home.

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MARCH 30, 2020

“I am a full-time college student. colleges and universities began shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic. colleges and universities began shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was written by a student in a community college in Ohio. Indeed, just 25 institutions hold about half of all U.S.

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APRIL 30, 2022

Vanessa Valenciano had high hopes for the certificate she earned at public Aims Community College in Colorado. After all, colleges have been advertising these kinds of credentials as the next best thing to a degree. Related: Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

“So when you have a situation like these storms that continue to keep coming …” Now help is arriving from an unexpected source: The University of Vermont, or UVM, the state’s flagship higher education institution, has opened a new center to help rural communities like this one.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Lebanon Valley College recruited transfer students this year by promising that their general education courses would count toward a degree — something that doesn’t usually happen. Credit: Lebanon Valley College. When Covid-19 threw higher education into chaos, Lebanon Valley College quietly took a small step with big implications.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Nationwide, they’ve risen 14 percent , on average, the real estate firm Redfin reports — and by even more than that in cities tracked by Realtor.com that have large student populations, such as Boston (up 24 percent), New York (21 percent) and Austin, Texas (20 percent). Credit: Jon Marcus/The Hechinger Report.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

After all, the number of men applying to college had already begun to fall below the number of women — a trend that would soon accelerate, worsening a growing nationwide decline in enrollment. Related: Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines. A college student moves into a dorm.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Community colleges have 14 percent fewer students in the fall of 2021 than they had two years ago, according to a preliminary enrollment report from the National Student Clearinghouse’s Research Center. Half of the 3,600 colleges and universities that the Clearinghouse tracks have reported their fall enrollment data so far.

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APRIL 18, 2023

But after decades of a falling birthrate, it has far too few of another important resource: college students like these. universities and colleges, Inaba says. Formerly part of the Nakajima Aircraft Company, the building houses classrooms and the Institute for Educational Research and Service. million now.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Citrus College was Kyshawna Johnson’s third attempt at higher education. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times She first enrolled in a community college at age 18 while living with her grandmother, who was her foster care guardian. Her grades fell to Ds, and she thought, “College just may not be for me.”

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Washington state’s free-college program, enacted by law in 2019, is considered one of the nation’s most generous. The average cost of tuition and fees at a four-year, nonprofit, private institution was $36,900 in 2019-2020 for a full-time student. For an in-state student at a public institution, it was $10,400.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Stanford has said it’s reviewing the complaint and hasn’t decided whether to open an investigation, according to news reports. Building on this new fan base, she founded a nonprofit organization at Stanford called youcubed to train teachers, conduct research and spread her gospel. Instead, she focused on changing classrooms.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Try out Hechinger’s updated Tuition Tracker to see what college might cost you.

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MAY 20, 2020

Chris Smith wasn’t planning to spend the summer at a community college. This story also appeared in NBC News. So he’s decided to spend the summer taking the math and science classes he needs — still online, but at a lower cost — by doing it through nearby Broward College, which serves mostly students pursuing associate degrees.

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MARCH 20, 2023

The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming in the Bay Area. Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal.

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MAY 6, 2021

And we can do so in ways that recognize that all young people can benefit from work experience, whether they plan to go to college, pursue a credential or career, go to work or some combination. The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. Employers pose a similar challenge.

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