What a decline in rural colleges means for rural communities

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Rural colleges in America are struggling. Due to enrollment and funding shortages, many have had to close or slash core majors to stay afloat. Andrew Koricich joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:20.0	Growing up in El Dorado, Kansas,
0:22.0	ADA Witherspoon knew she was going to go to college.
0:26.0	Even though El Dorado has a population of about 12,000,
0:29.0	and her high school graduating class was just 16 students.
0:34.0	Not a lot of kids there end up going to college.
0:38.0	And if they do, it's usually like the local community college.
0:42.0	I wasn't really exposed to other options.
0:46.0	It's her mother who infused ADA with the drive to get to college.
0:51.0	A single mom, she'd always stressed to ADA that going to college was her only option.
0:57.0	If she wanted to get out of poverty or get out of town.
1:01.0	But when ADA began her college search,
1:04.0	she wanted to stay close to family while in undergrad.
1:07.0	And that's how she stumbled upon Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas.
1:13.0	About a 45-minute drive away from ADA's hometown.
1:17.0	I knew Emporia was close, and most importantly, I knew it was really affordable.
1:21.0	Because I was raised by a single mom.
1:24.0	And it was kind of like a school that could be covered by like financial aid or no school at all.
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