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Sara Hebel

Sara Hebel

71 posts
Co-founder of Open Campus.
  • The Weekly Dispatch

The Price of Bettering Yourself

  • Sara Hebel
  • April 15, 2021
Dozens of people in Colorado and Pittsburgh shared their personal experiences with student debt. Borrowing for college can open up opportunities, their stories show, and it can narrow them, too.
  • The Weekly Dispatch

What a deep mistrust of higher ed looks like

  • Sara HebelandScott Smallwood
  • March 18, 2021
An entire political party, it seems, has lost faith in their public colleges. In one Idaho town, an us-versus-them mentality is quickly solidifying.
  • The Weekly Dispatch

The diversity gap between students and campus police

  • Sara HebelandScott Smallwood
  • March 11, 2021
Roughly half of the nearly 800 sworn officers employed by California’s two public-university systems are white, compared with less than a quarter of students.
  • The Weekly Dispatch

The trust gap on campus

  • Sara Hebel
  • March 4, 2021
Black students report substantially less trust in their colleges than white students, corresponding with many long-term problems in higher ed.
    • The Weekly Dispatch

How higher ed is failing Black Americans

They are underrepresented at our best colleges and overrepresented at some of our worst.
Sara Hebel Scott Smallwood
Sara Hebel, Scott Smallwood
  • February 25, 2021
  • The Weekly Dispatch

Can a college help save a rural coal town?

  • Sara Hebel
  • February 11, 2021
In places like Craig, Colo., the local college looms large. Can it retrain residents? Can it help diversify the economy? Can it help a region reimagine its future?
  • The Weekly Dispatch

The failings of for-profit colleges

  • Sara Hebel
  • January 28, 2021
As national higher ed debates focus on issues of cost and racial equity, one sector’s problems loom large.
  • The Weekly Dispatch

Misperceptions about the regional public

  • Sara Hebel
  • January 14, 2021
They're not always trying to be something they're not. Very few are on the brink. And why don't we consider them prestigious?
  • The Weekly Dispatch

What’s ahead for higher ed

  • Sara HebelandScott Smallwood
  • January 8, 2021
Democrats are taking control in Washington, the pandemic is upending yet another semester, and states are reckoning with deep cuts.
    • The Weekly Dispatch

A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year

What 2020 taught us about the role of higher ed in society
Sara Hebel Scott Smallwood
Sara Hebel, Scott Smallwood
  • December 17, 2020

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