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One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis

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The university has done this by luring out-of-staters with in-state tuition prices and by breaking with long-standing attitudes through which higher education sometimes alienates rather than embraces prospective applicants. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Department of Education.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. My favorite comparison I see a lot is about asking a fish to climb a tree. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Six reasons you may not graduate on time

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Understanding that cost is an issue that won’t be solved immediately, we asked educators to identify the other biggest obstacles to a timely graduation. Students who are worried about debt sometimes work more and then reduce their course load,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall who studies student debt.

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