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Court Allows N.Y.U.’s Contested Expansion Plan to Go Forward
The state’s highest court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling allowing New York University to move forward with its expansion plan, most likely ending a long battle with neighbors, elected officials, preservationists and faculty members. The contentious plan would add about 1.9 million square feet of space across four buildings, including classrooms, dormitories and offices, to the largely low-slung neighborhood of Greenwich Village. About 900,000 square feet of that would be underground, according to the university.
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Working to Death
Adam Finkel of the Law School is quoted about standards from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Outsourced Campus Judges
Campus hearings, even when they’re regarding an activity as serious as sexual assault, are not courtrooms. It's a distinction that the U.S. Department of Education has embraced, requiring colleges to conduct their own investigations into claims of sexual assault, and to adjudicate those cases under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Colleges use “preponderance of evidence” instead of “beyond reasonable doubt” as the standard of proof. If a student is found in violation of campus rules, he or she is “responsible” for the misconduct, not “guilty” of a crime.
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Gut Check: Are You Using Social Media for Customer Insights?
A study about financial behavior co-authored by Nicholas Souleles of the Wharton School is cited.
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Did the Roberts Court Really Lurch Left?
Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School offers his opinion on a possible shift in the Supreme Court’s political leanings.
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Supreme Court to Weigh Race in College Admissions
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take a second look at the use of race in admissions decisions by the University of Texas at Austin, reviving a potent challenge to affirmative action in higher education. The move, which supporters of race-conscious admissions programs called baffling and ominous, signaled that the court may limit or even end such affirmative action. The advocates speculated that the court’s most conservative members had cast the four votes needed to grant review of the case in the hope that Justice Anthony M.
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The Supreme Court Ruling and Christian Colleges
Friday's Supreme Court decision that states must authorize and recognize gay and lesbian marriages could create major legal challenges for religious colleges -- primarily evangelical Christian colleges that bar same-sex relationships among students and faculty members. Or the decision may not create much of a legal challenge at all. Or it may create challenges, but not soon. Legal experts are divided. But the question of whether same-sex marriage as a national right changes the legal status of Christian colleges is no longer just theoretical.
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The Euro in Flames
Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School writes about the value of the euro.
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Philanthropist Pledges $3 Million to Get 150 Low Income Students Through UDel Debt Free
The same organization that pledged $1 million to put 50 students from low income families through Rowan University earlier this month has made a similar pledge in Delaware, only bigger. Robert O. Carr, cofounder of a Princeton-based credit-card processing company, has donated $3 million to put 150 low income Delaware residents through the University of Delaware, officials announced Monday. The money comes through the Give Something Back Foundation, which Carr started in his native Illinois in 2001 and expanded this spring to the East Coast, with an office in Princeton.
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Supreme Court Will Hear Texas Affirmative Action Case
The Supreme Court will hear Abigail Fisher’s affirmative action lawsuit against the University of Texas at Austin. The court relisted the case several times before granting Fisher’s petition for a writ of certiorari this morning. Justice Elena Kagan took no part in the decision, the court noted. Fisher’s closely watched case dates back to her 2008 rejection from the University of Texas System’s flagship institution, which she argued was because of its affirmative action policy.