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Direct linkRobert A. Kolvoord; Emily Grossnickle Peterson – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
Recruiting undergraduate students is a significant challenge for undergraduate geography programs. Few students have robust exposure to geography in secondary school and the major has low name recognition for entering first year students. In fact, geography is often a "found" major on many campuses with students coming to the major after…
Descriptors: High Schools, Enrollment Influences, College Enrollment, Geographic Information Systems
