{"id":752,"date":"2017-04-24T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=752"},"modified":"2017-04-24T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:05:55","slug":"report-rural-urban-gap-in-college-completion-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/24\/report-rural-urban-gap-in-college-completion-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rural-Urban Gap in College Completion Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-753\" style=\"width: 725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ruralbus.jpg\" alt=\"iStock\" width=\"725\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ruralbus.jpg 725w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ruralbus-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rural-urban gap in college completion continues to grow, with fewer than one in five adults in rural communities holding a four-year degree, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/webdocs\/publications\/eib171\/eib-171.pdf?v=42830\">new report<\/a> from the United States Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween 2000 and 2015, the share of urban adults with at least a bachelor\u2019s degree grew from 26 percent to 33 percent, while in rural areas the share grew from 15 percent to 19 percent,\u201d report authors note. \u201cTherefore, the urban-rural gap in the share of adults with bachelor\u2019s degrees grew from 11 to 14 percentage points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The gap affects the overall health and stability of America\u2019s rural communities. Low educational attainment is linked to higher rates of poverty and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducational attainment is highly correlated with measures of regional economic prosperity,\u201d the report notes. \u201cRural counties with the lowest levels of educational attainment face higher poverty, child poverty, unemployment, and population loss than other rural counties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/webdocs\/publications\/eib171\/eib-171.pdf?v=42830\">Read the full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/students-share-your-college-essay-with-the-new-york-times\/mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rural-urban gap in college completion continues to grow, with fewer than one in five adults in rural communities holding a four-year degree, according to a new report from the United States Department of Agriculture. \u201cBetween 2000 and 2015, the share of urban adults with at least a bachelor\u2019s degree grew from 26 percent to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/24\/report-rural-urban-gap-in-college-completion-grows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report: Rural-Urban Gap in College Completion Grows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[111],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-completion","tag-rural-america"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-c8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}