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

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What we now think of as “affirmative action” for demographic minorities, particularly racial minorities, emerged most clearly through President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s. The term has evolved since then, but this first use established a core idea of righting a discriminatory wrong.

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College Enrollment Rates Rebound Slightly

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Within "high-minority" high schools, the college attendance rate rose from 54% in 2022 to 54.5% in 2023, while in "low-minority" schools it increased from 63.7% for the class of 2016. For high- and low-minority high school graduates, those rates were 10.6% Separating statistics by race yields similar results. from 59.9%

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Graduating With Style: This Artist Creates Custom Caps for Students’ Big Day

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The positive feedback on her custom mortarboards inspired Morales to create even more in spring 2016 when she also walked with her UC Santa Barbara graduating class. Mother Knows Best Morales graduated with a degree in sociology and Spanish with a minor in education in 2016 with the goal of working with Spanish-speaking students.

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Our LGBTQ students’ lives and well-being are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help

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I recently had the opportunity to participate in a media interview with Brandon Wolf , a survivor of the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and a civil rights activist. Train staff to raise cultural competency and improve their understanding of how the marginalization of minority student groups is embedded in higher education.

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Harvard’s Porcellian Club: All You Need to Know

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This exclusivity sometimes led to criticism, particularly regarding the club’s lack of diversity and its exclusion of women and minorities. A 2016 Harvard University report linked all-male final clubs to higher rates of sexual assault on campus. However, the club remains a symbol of Harvard’s rich history and traditions.

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Maryland HBCU Offers Incarcerated Students College Degrees

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The first, administered by the University of Baltimore , began in 2016 and similarly focuses on a partnership with Jessup Correctional Institution. As Jackson explained, HBCUs, like Bowie State, have a responsibility to work toward advancing minority and historically excluded communities. This responsibility includes people in prison.

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Best Psychology Programs in the World

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and a minor in Applied Developmental Psychology. UCLA offers three undergraduate majors, including Psychology (B.A.), Cognitive Science (B.S.), and Psychobiology (B.S.), These majors have different focuses and cater to various student interests and needs. Note: Senior Survey was not distributed in 2020 and 2021).

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