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Professor Gender Pay Gap: Colleges Haven’t Fixed It. Will Courts?

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According to the Post, in 2003, Vassar’s women full professors earned 7.6% According to the Post, in 2003, Vassar’s women full professors earned 7.6% The Gender Pay Gap in Academia Women earn lower salaries than men across higher education. Recent lawsuits have alleged wage discrimination against women professors.

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How Will the Harvard Lawsuit Affect Affirmative Action in College Admissions?

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Although the term comes up most often these days in the context of college admissions in the United States, affirmative action has been around since the 1960s and has affected a wide range of laws and policies. Indeed, in its origins, it was most closely linked to employment, rather than education. What Is Affirmative Action?

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Business at Wharton/University of Pennsylvania: Deep Dive

The Koppelman Group

, we’ve been shedding light on the history of elite education’s most-talked-about programs. We’ve made a career out of evaluating college hype, and we’re here to share our knowledge so that you know whether a school will live up to its name or whether its reputation is just an empty promise.

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The Future of Race-Conscious Admissions

Top Tier Admissions

As recently as 2016, the Supreme Court upheld that taking account of race as “one factor among many” to achieve educational diversity was permissible. The two cases, brought by Students for Fair Admissions, approach the question of the use of race in admissions from different angles. RACE-CONSCIOUS ADMISSIONS: HOW DID WE GET HERE?

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Affirmative Action Ban Would Limit Faculty Diversity

BestColleges

As the higher education community braces itself in anticipation of the U.S. And while the 2003 Gratz v. A 2012 study by The Civil Rights Project titled " The Impact of Affirmative Action Bans in Graduate Education " found that minority enrollment had decreased in states that passed laws prohibiting affirmative action.

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These States Offer College Scholarships, Financial Aid to Former Foster Youth

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Most states have extensive financial aid programs for former foster youth. states, students with experience in foster care don't have to pay tuition. Many states, however, have strict requirements students must meet to qualify for aid. states (31), SEFC can qualify for tuition waivers. In more than half of U.S.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

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Art Coleman, one of the nation’s foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education, joins EAB’s Tom Cakuls to unpack the recent Supreme Court ruling. Today I have the great privilege of bringing you a conversation with Art Coleman, one of the nation's foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education.