Rural students face a unique housing challenge even among Gen Zers: shortages, rising rents, and barriers from landlords.
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A rural Idahoan’s case for the trades
Justin Sarbaum, a retired Army infrantryman, understands the importance of college. But if you’re making the investment, you should be doing it strategically, he says.
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From rural Idaho Falls to Stanford U.
Coming from a rural area, Clark faced challenges to get to college — he worried that he didn’t have the same resources or connections of his urban and suburban peers.
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A first-generation senior finds her college path, with help from an adviser who had walked it before
Everything changed for Ashlee Villarreal when she met Evelyn Irigoyen-Aguirre, who is part of the Kansas State Advising Corps.
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Mile Markers: From classroom to vineyard in rural Washington
How a community college helped Walla Walla become a wine lover’s paradise.
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‘Everybody assumes that it’s like the rest of California and it’s not’: Rural LGBTQ students and administrators describe campus strife.
In rural and conservative-leaning towns and cities across California, LGBTQ+ student groups are small in number and face homophobic and transphobic incidents on and off campus. Some help is on the way.
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A Rural College, and the ‘J-O-B Degree’
Colleges in rural areas are beginning to offer certification courses and other entrepreneurship training programs that don’t go through extensive approval process.
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As colleges shutter, rural towns wonder: What’s next?
A rural town, a fleeing flagship, and faltering faith in higher ed.
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The town a flagship left behind
The departure of a college in rural West Virginia. And, just a few days left to apply to our paid (and remote) fellowship for student journalists at HBCUs.
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A rural town, a fleeing flagship, and a faltering faith in higher ed
The growing rift between the public and their universities is especially felt in places like Montgomery, W. Va., where people feel they’re not valued.