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Foreign Students Pinch University of California Home-State Admissions
With foreigners enrolling in U.S. schools at record numbers, students such as Noah Hernandez, a freshman at the University of California, San Diego, are getting a global view of the world without leaving their home state. The school has thousands of Chinese students, including Mr. Hernandez’s roommate, who pay three times the in-state tuition. “If I were running a school, it would make sense” to accept them, said the biology major, as a clutch of Mandarin-speaking students walked by.
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Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible Role in Paris Attacks
Matt Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about encryption.
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Three Ways You Sabotage Your Retirement Without Realizing It
Coren Apicella and Sudeep Bhatia of the School of Arts & Sciences are quoted about humans sticking with their default bias.
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College is the Last Place That Should Be a ‘Safe Space’: A Voice of Protest Against Student Protests
Students are protesting at campuses across the country, more fervently than ever in the wake of demonstrations at the University of Missouri that forced the resignations of the university system president and the chancellor last week.
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Yale College Dean Torn by Racial Protests
His cellphone started humming at 11:20 p.m. on Thursday. An urgent voice jolted Jonathan Holloway from his slumber. Students protesting against racism on campus were streaming toward the home of the university’s president, the caller said. Dr. Holloway is the first black dean of Yale College, a scholar of African-American history, and an administrator who prides himself on his close ties to his students. But the late-night march took him by surprise. Within minutes, he was dialing Yale’s president: “You might want to get dressed.”
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Minorities Know There Are No Safe Spaces
Postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Wilson of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about promoting difficult dialogues on college campuses.
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Georgetown University to Rename Two Buildings That Reflect School’s Ties to Slavery
Georgetown University will rename two buildings named for school presidents who organized the sale of Jesuit-owned slaves to help pay off campus debt in the 1830s, the university’s president announced. Mulledy Hall, a new student dormitory named for the president who authorized the sale of about 272 slaves to a Louisiana plantation owner in 1838, will be called Freedom Hall until a permanent name is chosen.
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University of Missouri Student President: School Has Racism But Also Unity
When Payton Head ran as a gay, black man for student president at the University of Missouri — a school now known for one student's hunger strike and other protests against the administration's handling of racial bias and hostility on campus — he promised to "ignite Mizzou." "We've definitely done that," Head, a 21-year-old senior from Chicago who is studying political science and international studies, told The Associated Press.
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When It Comes to Surviving Mass Extinctions, Smaller Is Better
Lauren Sallan of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for leading research that shows ancient mass extinction led to dominance of tiny fish.
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Naming of Margaret Spellings as UNC System President Called ‘A Disturbing New Low’
In recent years the University of North Carolina system — long considered one of the best in the country — has sustained massive budget cuts by the state legislature as well as efforts to force some academics to change their priorities. Now there is a new challenge: the appointment of Margaret Spellings, education secretary under President George W. Bush, as system president. The move — by a Republican-dominated governing board — is being attacked by students and faculty as a political move that will damage the state.