Author: Lovey Cooper

West Main Street in Jared Lathrop's home town in Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. Photo: Famartin
West Main Street in Jared Lathrop's home town in Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. Photo: Famartin

When a Degree Doesn’t Equal a ‘Good Job.’ Appalachian Youth Rethinking College

Heightened generational and cultural divides are increasingly apparent throughout Appalachia as rural students navigate the path to higher education. College has shifted from presenting a lure of opportunity to one of uncertainty and risk. To tell community members in a small Appalachian town to pull themselves up by their bootstraps […]

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