Efforts to get rural students into college would end if the government cuts federal funding to access programs including TRIO, according to Mara Tieken, a professor of education at Bates College whose research centers on racial and educational equity in rural schools and communities.
“So many of these rural public high schools are operating on shoestring budgets; they can’t cut anywhere else,” Tieken told Inside Higher Ed editor in chief Sara Custer on a recent episode of The Key, IHE’s news and analysis podcast. “These programs do essential work that just won’t get done if they’re not there.”
Rural students, who tend to take out more loans than their peers from urban or suburban locations, are also vulnerable to changes in federal student loan repayment plans. “Any changes to repayment—making either repayment more costly or more difficult—it’s going to make things more difficult for rural students,” she said.
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