{"id":3031,"date":"2019-02-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2019-02-12T11:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:03:04","slug":"creating-college-going-culture-in-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/02\/27\/creating-college-going-culture-in-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating College-going Culture in Rural Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The higher education community and businesses must work together to create a college-going culture in across rural America.<\/p>\n

The Hechinger Report found<\/a><\/em> that rural communities often face a mindset problem when it comes to higher education.<\/p>\n

For generations, rural Americans were able to get good jobs with only a high school diploma. Now many of the jobs available require a more specialized skill set.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn a lot of rural communities, we still have a lot of work to do to get people to understand\u201d that, Bill Seymour, president of Cleveland State Community College in rural Tennessee, said.<\/p>\n

Joe Garcia, a former Colorado lieutenant governor and leader of his state\u2019s community college system, said businesses and colleges need to work together to combat this mindset and close the skills gap.<\/p>\n

Colleges should work to attract adults who don\u2019t yet have the skills employers need, but businesses need to tell colleges what those skills are.<\/p>\n

\u201cColleges and the way we market need to change,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cWe need to realize we\u2019re not seeking the students we had 40 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more at The Hechinger Report<\/a><\/em> and check out\u00a0NACAC research<\/a>\u00a0on the factors that constrain and promote college access and enrollment for rural students, and read an article from\u00a0The Journal of College Admission<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on supporting rural students.<\/p>\n

Admission professionals committed to the admission, matriculation, and success of rural and small town students are invited to join\u00a0NACAC\u2019s Rural and Small Town SIG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The higher education community and businesses must work together to create a college-going culture in across rural America. The Hechinger Report found that rural communities often face a mindset problem when it comes to higher education. For generations, rural Americans were able to get good jobs with only a high school diploma. Now many of … Continue reading Creating College-going Culture in Rural Communities<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-value-of-college"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-MT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}