Addressing the Biggest Barriers to Education for America’s Rural Adults

By Esther Prins - EvoLLLution. The first challenge is perhaps the most obvious and that is physical access due to geographic isolation. In Pennsylvania, where our study focused, higher education institutions are not evenly distributed across the state. As you might imagine, they’re most concentrated in urban areas. This is especially the case with community colleges. Those tend to be located around the periphery of the state and the more rural areas tend to get overlooked by that. More...