Data shows where students live impacts whether they go to college, but Texas Tech is trying to change that
Apr 3, 2018
Education Dive - During a recent visit to Education Dive's offices, Texas Tech University president Lawrence Schovanec talked about his intentional efforts to recruit from the rural areas around the Lubbock, Texas campus, realizing that most of the university's student population came from more than 300 miles away — only 12% of the freshman class was from within 100 miles, though 100 miles is the median distance most students across the country travel for college.
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