Stephanie Sowl

Stephanie Sowl is a Ph.D. candidate studying Higher Education at Iowa State University. Her research explores the relationship between spatial inequality and postsecondary opportunities, particularly as it relates to rural, first-generation and/or working-class students. She also is interested in adults’ residential mobility patterns over time, specifically trends with different educational levels, postsecondary institutional types, and community contexts.

Rural students who grow up with strong ties to their schools are more likely to return to their hometowns after they graduate from college.
By Stephanie Sowl
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