CIRCLE ExpandED | Dr. Hugo Garcia | Dual Credit Programs & the Challenges for Rural & Urban Students

Dual Credit Programs and their Challenges for Rural and Urban Students

January 23, 2024, 12pm-1pm

Hugo Garcia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
College of Education
Texas Tech University

Upward socioeconomic mobility in the United States necessitates postsecondary education in some form due to various local and global political and economic conditions. Most jobs created after the recession were positions that required some kind of postsecondary education and/or credentials. Given the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, the need to obtain some higher level of education beyond high school will only intensify. Unfortunately, students from working-class backgrounds within urban and rural settings have not had the same educational opportunities as those from suburban environments or from wealthy backgrounds. Therefore, it is paramount to better understand the ways policy makers and educators can ameliorate the educational gap between students from working-class backgrounds in rural/urban communities and those from wealthy suburban environments. This presentation will showcase the ways in which dual credit programs can promote exposure to a collegiate environment and increase college participation of students who may not have pursued a collegiate pathway beyond high school.

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