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OPINION: 3 ways that colleges can support underrepresented students after the Harvard case

The Hechinger Report

Trial arguments closed last month in the Harvard University discrimination case brought in 2014 by Students for Fair Admissions claiming that Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans in the admissions process. The ruling in the case in federal district court is likely to favor Harvard.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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It gets people’s attention anytime you say, ‘Free,’ ” said Jimmy Kidd, the director of admissions, who spoke between in-person student orientation sessions in the library of the school’s downtown Louisville campus in late June. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads.

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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

At Delta State, for instance, enrollment is down by nearly a quarter since 2014. Holly Buroughs sits in front of the Jackson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina Greensboro. When Ennis got to Delta State, he also found the university was overestimating its revenue from facilities and merchandise.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. If we didn’t build CVHS, we would have many students going elsewhere, without question.”.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

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requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida. 21, 1939: African Americans Arrested for Going to Public Library Sept. Most recently, they’ve removed one of the Gen.