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Posted inMile Markers

What a New PBS Doc Reveals About Advising’s Value

By Nick FouriezosMarch 28, 2025April 25, 2025

A Q&A with Nicole Hurd, founder of College Advising Corps and Lafayette College President

Posted inMile Markers

What happens when you tell an 8th grader they aren’t college material?

By Nick FouriezosMarch 14, 2025April 25, 2025

And other questions worth asking about dual enrollment.

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How rural portraits led Utah’s education shift

By Nick FouriezosFebruary 28, 2025March 7, 2025

This issue of Mile Markers centers how rural portraits led Utah’s educational shift through Postcards of rodeo royalty and pig farms.

Posted inTexas

How a South Texas community college embraced apprenticeships to ease a growing nursing shortage

By Sneha Dey, The Texas TribuneFebruary 18, 2025February 19, 2025

South Texas College in McAllen launched one of the first registered nursing apprenticeships in the country as area hospitals expect the need for nurses to increase.

Posted inMile Markers

Rural research at risk under Trump

By Nick FouriezosFebruary 14, 2025February 21, 2025

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

By Nick FouriezosJanuary 31, 2025January 31, 2025

In this Q&A, Tim Knowles outlines how Carnegie is re-examining our education system.

Posted inMile Markers

How rural towns can tap their flagship

By Nick FouriezosJanuary 17, 2025January 24, 2025

Indiana University’s Center for Rural Engagement is helping rural communities around the state.

Posted inNorth Carolina

A western North Carolina college president looks back on a tumultuous semester

By Brianna Atkinson, WUNCJanuary 3, 2025January 6, 2025

Warren Wilson is located in one of the areas that was hit the hardest by Hurricane Helene, the Swannanoa Valley.

Posted inMile Markers

Is college the future of farming?

By Nick FouriezosDecember 20, 2024January 6, 2025

Farm workers adapt to new technology in the dusty Central Valley of California.

Posted inCollege in Rural America

Texas has big goals for college completion. In places like Coastal Bend, how to get there is still murky.

By Nick FouriezosDecember 18, 2024December 17, 2024

Few adults have a college degree in this largely rural and mostly Hispanic region. That has consequences for the local economy and residents’ earning power.

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