Jon Marcus
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Higher education editor, The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport or reach out at [email protected]
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More than half of colleges that have closed since 2020 were religiously affiliated, which are among the institutions most imperiled by enrollment and financial challenges. @hechingerreport.
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Rural students often have few options other than religious institutions fighting to survive
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"We're kind of on an island where we only have the community college." How community colleges are adding four-year bachelor's degrees to fill rural higher education deserts. @hechingerreport.
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Diminishing access to four-year universities and majors has been holding rural students back. Community colleges say they can bridge the gap.
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How the success of universities and colleges may now largely depend on enrolling Hispanic students -- something they have not historically done well. @hechingerreport
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Among high school grads, a long-neglected group is getting bigger: Hispanic students
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How online classes, which held the promise of making higher education cheaper, have somehow ended up costing the same as or more than in-person college. @hechingerreport.
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Most Americans think online courses should be cheaper than in-person college classes, but most online programs cost the same or more.
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RT @MDRC_News: A looming 'demographic cliff': Fewer college students and ultimately fewer graduates, reports @JonMarcusBoston @hechingerrep….
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The long-predicted downturn in the number of 18-year-olds is almost here. And it isn't just a problem for higher education. It's a looming crisis for the economy.
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Apprenticeships are a hot way to get a job without going to college, and a priority of the new administration. One problem, though: There aren't enough of them to meet demand. @hechingerreport.
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More people are lining up for apprenticeships than there are employers to provide them
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Rural colleges and universities continue to cut dozens of majors, leaving rural students with far fewer choices than urban and suburban students get. @hechingerreport @opencampusmedia.
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Rural Americans already have less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Now the comparatively few universities serving rural students are cutting large numbers of programs and...
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As enrollment falls, it's becoming easier to get into college. @hechingerreport.
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Something dramatic is happening to the college application process, for the first time in decades: It’s becoming easier to get in.
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RT @UrbanViewRadio: Today on @SundayCivics w/ @ljoywilliams, @JonMarcusBoston & @KirkCarapezza of College Uncovered come to the front of t….
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It's not just politicians who are chasing middle-class Americans. Fretful colleges are giving more financial aid to students from middle-income families, who turn out to be the ones disappearing fastest from campuses. @hechingerreport
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A handful of colleges are starting to designate financial aid specifically for students from middle-income families, who have been slowly but quietly disappearing from campuses.
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After growing up with mass shootings, restrictions on reproductive rights, student loan debt and other issues that affect them, college students appear to be lining up to vote.
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After a history of poor turnouts, college students are being driven to vote by issues that affect them directly
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Welcome back? Wait, not you. Why fewer men than ever are enrolling in college. @hechingerreport.
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The U.S. Department of Education says the proportion of men who are college students is at a record-low of 41 percent.
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“Absolutely ridiculous. It’s insane.” A little-reported reason college is becoming unaffordable. @hechingerreport.
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A handful of colleges and universities are trying to address what has become — along with food — the fastest-growing cost of college: student housing.
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Why earnings and management gaps persist, even as women far outnumber men in college. @hechingerreport @NPR.
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Though college women continue to outnumber men in college and the workforce, “1960s” obstacles are stubbornly preventing them from closing leadership and earnings gaps.
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Is the "cash cow" of graduate enrollment now also at risk? @hechingerreport @USATODAY.
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After years of increase, the graduate enrollment on which universities heavily rely for revenue may be softening as prospective students question the cost of grad school and as shorter, cheaper and...
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On the air in L.A. to talk about why men aren't going to college.
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RT @Shah_Foundation: New Deep Dives: How to Get Your Kids Into College. New Deep Dives: How to Get Your Kids Into College with College Unco….
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“Embrace the wilderness, embrace the axe.” How universities are trying to recruit men.
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Universities are trying new strategies — from entrepreneurship challenges to hunting and forestry — to increase the number of men in college, which has been declining steadily.
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Colleges are now closing at the pace of one a week. @hechingerreport.
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The pace of long-predicted college closings has sped up dramatically this spring, threatening to throw more and more students off the path to a degree.
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RT @jselingo: Can't wait to dig in. @StephenBurd2 was best teacher a new reporter could ask for when I arrived @chronicle. Any question abo….
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