Three Native women share their stories of getting in and making it through college.
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Sports provide an important but underutilized path to college for Native students
Sports can provide a promising avenue to education for Native students, but they are even more underrepresented in college athletics than they are in higher education.
Posted inColorado
Rural Colorado students go to college at low rates. Tiny Fowler goes against the trend.
The town shows how a partnership among educators, parents, and the broader community can foster the idea that college will contribute to success — whether or not graduates return home.
Posted inMile Markers
What I saw in 5 of California’s least-educated counties
The importance of college (or not) was often passed down by parents. Some just didn’t see its value. Others went back years later.
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How tech changes rural student outreach
To try to stem enrollment declines, and better serve students, Southeast Missouri State U. has tried a number of new tactics.
Posted inMile Markers
A rural student’s lost LSAT year
Barriers to getting into professional schools for rural students affect the types of lawyers, doctors, and educators we get .
Posted inMile Markers
For many rural students, higher ed means part-time education
Yet many colleges still focus on degree programs that can take years of full-time study, a serious time hurdle for working adults.
Posted inMile Markers
Musk’s Big Bet
Takeaways from a week in the Rio Grande Valley, exploring the promise and the peril for local residents of the billionaire’s rocket ship to Mars.
Posted inColorado
Exploring the college gaps in rural Colorado
Research shows rural students have high aspirations to go to college. Many don’t make it onto college campuses. Jason Gonzales is examining why.
Posted inCollege in Rural America
Will Elon Musk’s rocket bring prosperity or inequality to one of America’s poorest regions?
His spaceport would be a major investment anywhere, but it’s an especially dramatic one in South Texas, a remote, mostly Hispanic region, an area without other high-tech industries or top-tier universities.