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Oil references are everywhere at Williston State College, at the heart of North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Rural Education

For rural colleges, good vocational teachers are hard to find

by Matt Krupnick April 23, 2018February 9, 2022
Dominic, 3 and Zaire, 2, play while their moms take part in a conversation about bullying at a Family Scholar House Café Night.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

These formerly homeless single moms beat the odds and are now college grads

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner April 22, 2018April 8, 2021
One of the advertisements produced by the “You Can. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.
Posted inHigher Education, News

States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

by Kelly Field April 18, 2018April 8, 2021
Sarat Atobajeun started as an apprentice with Zurich Insurance last August. She said she appreciates the stability of the job and the diversity of the tasks she’s learning.
Posted inNews

Are apprenticeships the new on-ramp to good jobs?

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston April 15, 2018April 8, 2021
Laquon Jackson receives help from his Introduction to the Health Care Professions instructor, Elizabeth Dalianis.
Posted inElementary to High School

An Rx for poverty? A career in nursing

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston April 15, 2018April 1, 2021
Wind turbines on private working ranch land near Kevin, Montana.
Posted inNews

Workers are climbing wind turbines to the middle class

Avatar photo by Sarah Garland April 14, 2018April 8, 2021
Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. The state’s public universities now rely more on tuition than appropriations for funding.
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Report: Universities relying more on tuition than state and local money

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader April 10, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Rural Education

Even if they want to go to college, millions of adults live in higher education “deserts”

by Matt Krupnick April 9, 2018April 8, 2021
The University of La Verne near Los Angeles. The university makes it easier than most private colleges for students to transfer from other institutions.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

Transfer students start getting more of the credits they’ve already earned

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus April 9, 2018April 8, 2021
A prisoner's hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana.
Posted inColumnists

A case for educational reparations for the incarcerated

Avatar photo by Andre Perry April 3, 2018April 8, 2021

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