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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

There are high-tech glass-walled classrooms and a balcony with a view of passing fishing boats and ferries and corporate offices and condos under construction nearby. Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school.

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Can ‘work colleges’ in cities become a low-cost, high-value model for the future?

The Hechinger Report

For in-person instruction, students will go to classes at designated spaces easily accessible from their jobs and provided by the college’s corporate partners. Co-op programs combine work experience with classroom studies and give students academic credit for their jobs, but do so in a more informal way than work colleges.).

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After all the fuss about getting in, how do poor students survive on elite campuses?

The Hechinger Report

They are struggles that Jack, an assistant professor at Harvard, knows well from his own experience as an undergraduate scholarship student at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he prodded his classmates to understand being dependent on food stamps, before he graduated in 2007. Access, Jack says, is not inclusion.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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After a tough but promising freshman year, Dartmouth student tackles change at elite campuses

The Hechinger Report

While visiting, he was simultaneously impressed and overwhelmed by the university’s spacious classrooms, gleaming science labs and historic houses on fraternity row. Before he got into Dartmouth, Inoa said, he didn’t know where New Hampshire was; he’d never been to that neighboring state. from Harvard in 2016.

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