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

Spark Admissions

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. As of May 2023, there are major legal cases in front of the U.S.

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West Virginia University May Cut 32 Majors, 7% of Faculty

BestColleges

Gee, who has led the school since 2014, recently announced plans to step down as the school's president after his contract ends in 2025. The West Virginia University Board of Governors extended Gee's contract to 2025 at a late July meeting, with chair Taunja Willis-Miller noting that the school is in a "state of transformation."

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Will Legacy Admissions End Along With Affirmative Action?

BestColleges

This time, the suit involves legacy admissions , the university's policy of favoring children of alumni. For the classes of 2014-2019, Harvard legacies were admitted at a rate of 33.6% , compared to 5.9% Legacy admissions has been highly criticized in recent years, though only a few elite colleges have jettisoned the practice.

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Dartmouth Announces Families Making Under $125K Pay Nothing, Thanks to Historic Gift

BestColleges

This policy change will impact about 350 families. Dartmouth alum and former Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt, who died in 2014, and his wife, Barbara Britt, who died in August, made a bequest to the college and its Tuck School of Business of over $150 million, which will help erase expenses for students from middle-income families.

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Maryland House Passes Bill Banning Legacy Admissions

BestColleges

Other states are considering similar measures. Criticism of legacy policies has intensified following the U.S. 15, the Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill aiming to ban legacy admissions at the state's colleges and universities. Supreme Court's ban on race-conscious admissions. Glenn Youngkin.

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The Problem with Grade Inflation

Discovery College Consulting

But, when administrators realized they were disadvantaging Princeton graduates when it came to landing jobs or being admitted to grad school, they reversed their policy in 2014. It seems to me that we can apply this idea to grades: when everyone has a 4.0, getting straight A’s is no longer special. If “every student has a 4.0

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

Accountability comes in many forms: to state or governing agencies, students, key performance indicators, operating measures, and more. educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3).