A sizable share of college admission directors say they have intensified efforts to recruit in rural areas and find more white students from low-income families following Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the 2016 presidential election, according to a survey from the online news outlet Inside Higher Ed.
The 2016 election and President Trump’s statements and actions since taking office posed challenges for higher education in multiple ways. His campaign capitalized on heavy support from rural America and from white voters without college degrees — sectors of the population many colleges historically have struggled to reach. His efforts this year to temporarily bar travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, citing national security concerns, and his statements in favor of tighter immigration enforcement have fueled worries among foreign scholars and students about whether they will face barriers to research and studies in the United States.
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