Colleges got more rural students to apply. The challenge is getting them to attend

Some of the nation's most selective institutions are slowly increasing their rural enrollment with the help of millions of ...
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As more rural students apply to college, attention turns to helping them succeed there

AMHERST, Mass. — Crowding around a fire pit outside the Amherst College campus center, earnest-looking high school seniors ...
UPI

Rural students more likely to graduate, less likely to go to college

Many high school seniors are currently in the midst of the college application process or are already waiting to hear back from their selected schools. For high school students in rural parts of the ...
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Colleges in rural US region raise eyebrows after offering unusual program: 'Just get close enough and it'll electrocute you'

As the latest crop of Generation Z graduates struggles with a volatile and unfriendly job market, some of their younger siblings are looking to vocational colleges. In Minnesota and other rural areas, ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Rural America, Growth Area?

O n the surface, Louisiana State University at Alexandria might seem like an institution in trouble. It’s a public regional campus in a rural swath of the state, located in a city of under 50,000 that ...
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At Struggling Rural Colleges, No Future for History Degrees

STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Chancellor Bernie Patterson’s message to his campus was blunt: To remain solvent and relevant, his 125-year-old university needed to reinvent itself. Some long-standing liberal ...