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UC Expands Its Recruiting Efforts Targeting Black and Latino Students
The pitch came hard and fast: The University of California is the nation's finest public system of higher education. Financial aid is aplenty. The commitment to diversity is strong. The college recruiter who spoke Thursday to teachers, counselors, parents and more than 100 top students of color at Manual Arts High School should know her stuff. After all, she's president of the 10-campus, 246,000-student UC system — Janet Napolitano. The presence of such a luminary on this South Los Angeles campus of low-income, minority youth thrilled — and surprised — many students.
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Lead Poisoning in Pa., N.J. May Be Worse Than Flint
Marilyn Howarth of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on lead poisoning in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey region.
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Invited to England
A number of English universities, including some in the Russell Group, have increased their recruitment of European Union students by more than 40 percent after the removal of controls on undergraduate places. The increases were part of a record 11 percent increase in E.U. numbers across the U.K. sector in 2015-16. Universities said the rise came after they chose to step up recruitment on the Continent and was aimed at increasing diversity in their intake. But funding for E.U.
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Stanford Names New York University Leader a Next President
A neuroscientist who leads a prestigious graduate school and biomedical research institute in New York City was named Thursday as Stanford University's next president, a position he said he would use to champion basic research and the value of a liberal arts education. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of The Rockefeller University, will become Stanford's 11th president on Sept. 1, the California university's Board of Trustees announced.
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No Test Scores? No Problem: Applications Surge After GW Goes Test-optional
Applications to George Washington University surged 28 percent in the first admission cycle after the school stopped requiring prospective students to submit SAT or ACT scores. GW officials said Thursday they received 25,431 bids for the entering 2016 class, up from 19,833 last year. About one out of every five applicants chose not to submit test scores. Under its test-optional policy, the private university in Washington said it has drawn more African-American and Latino applicants and more applicants whose parents did not go to college.
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As Clinton Seeks to Break the Glass Ceiling, Many Young Feminists Shrug
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s strategy with young feminists.
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What the Education Dept.’s Information-Security Breakdowns Really Mean
In hearings this week and last fall, members of Congress warned that the U.S. Department of Education, with its databases containing sensitive information on millions of students and parents, is a prime target of hackers. The lawmakers accused top department officials of failing to secure the agency’s vulnerable information systems. The hearings featured highly technical testimony from government investigators and department officials, along with plenty of finger-pointing and outrage from lawmakers.
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How Wing Bowl Contestants Eat 20 Pounds of Chicken in 30 Minutes
Marc Levine of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about how speed eaters manage to eat as much as they do and how quickly.
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Why Your Commercial District Needs an Anti-Poverty Strategy
Penn is mentioned as an anchor institution in University City for its contributions to job creation and real estate investment in Philadelphia.
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In New Sorting of Colleges, Dartmouth Falls Out of An Exclusive Group
Dartmouth’s elite standing in higher education is secure. Founded in 1769, the Ivy League college in New Hampshire is esteemed worldwide for teaching and research. But this week it fell out of a college club many want to enter: A group of roughly 100 research-focused schools that insiders call “R1.” Among the 15 schools that climbed into the R1 group were West Virginia, Northeastern and George Mason universities. So what is R1 and why does it matter?