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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

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One question often lurks in the minds of college students: “What am I going to do after I graduate?” On campus, there are the well-known tales of students forging friendships with roommates or classmates that turn out to be connections to big jobs. What, I wondered, is the future of millions of online college students?

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Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

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This story also appeared in CBS News Beneath the inscription, a clock marks the time and dates when three swaddled newborns depicted in large photos entered the world: Ashley, now 19, Emily, 17, and Brianna, 11. WILMINGTON, Del. – She immediately signed up Ashley, and later, Emily.

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PROOF POINTS: New poll points to college and career benefits of Greek life despite criticism

The Hechinger Report

Amid the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020, calls to Abolish Greek Life gathered momentum. Greek life is especially popular in the South. The Gallup Organization didn’t measure whether students’ academic performance or social skills improved during their college years.

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New Book Suggests Big Changes for Small Colleges

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What began 130 years ago as a religious school for women now serves about 1,750 co-ed students, many of them first-generation. Marcy’s work helping the institution adapt to attract and serve new kinds of students inspired her to explore how other small colleges are responding to today’s economic pressures and demographic changes.

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OPINION: Banning legacy admissions will deliver another blow to the children of Black alumni

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As we made our way down one of the city streets that bisect the Yale campus, cars zooming by, my daughter Mari swept her wide-eyed gaze across the grand Gothic cathedrals that are Yale’s residential colleges. “I By comparison, its proportion of white students was 32.3 percent; Asian students, 22.8

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Quarantine campuses: With dorms shut and class online, students DIY college life

The Hechinger Report

For six first-year students at Olin College of Engineering, the mid-March news of the campus closing and classes going online was more than troubling. When news of Olin’s closing hit, she said, “I remember thinking, ‘I cannot imagine doing everything I am doing right now, working as hard as I am working, without these people.’ ”.

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Sophomores in name only: Helping students start their second first year

The Hechinger Report

Most of her classmates were on campus for part of the year, but some, including international students who struggled to get visas during the pandemic, took classes remotely the whole year. Related: Burnout symptoms increase among college students. Louis and ultimately have the opportunity to spend time getting to know each other.

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