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Mile Markers
A bimonthly newsletter about the role of colleges in rural America, including profiles of people and places worth getting to know a little better. Written by Open Campus staff reporter Emily Lytle.
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A Second Chance Through Farming
A program meant for farm workers is helping formerly incarcerated students, too.
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A Workforce Training Standard in Rural Alabama
Studying transformative results at Wallace State Community College.
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This college refused to graduate students into poverty
How a powerful promise reset a Wisconsin tech school’s curriculum and outcomes
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Gen Z turns to the GED
A growing portion of high school equivalency test-takers in Missouri seem to be high-performing students, pursuing GEDs and similar tests not as a last resort, but as a strategic choice.
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What a New PBS Doc Reveals About Advising’s Value
A Q&A with Nicole Hurd, founder of College Advising Corps and Lafayette College President
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What happens when you tell an 8th grader they aren’t college material?
And other questions worth asking about dual enrollment.
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How rural portraits led Utah’s education shift
This issue of Mile Markers centers how rural portraits led Utah’s educational shift through Postcards of rodeo royalty and pig farms.
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Rural research at risk under Trump
Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign led to a surge in rural attention, research, and support over the last decade, but his second presidency could bring that progress to a sudden halt.
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Rethinking everything to better capture rural success
In this Q&A, Tim Knowles outlines how Carnegie is re-examining our education system.