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How This Supreme Court Case Could Change College Affirmative Action (+Video)
On December 9, the US Supreme Court will once again take up the case of Abigail Fisher, a former applicant rejected for admission to the University of Texas at Austin, whose allegations of unfair racial bias against whi
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Many Kids With Exemptions Have Gotten Some Vaccines
School of Nursing’s Alison Buttenheim shares her findings on the number of children who are vaccinated.
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Material One Thousand Times Thinner Than Paper Withstands the Squeeze To Retain Its Shape
Igor Bargatin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured for researching the thinnest plates that can be picked up by hand.
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What the Supreme Court Will Be Asking as It Revisits Affirmative Action
When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in a legal battle over race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas, look for the justices to focus less on the broad debate over such policies than on nuts-and-bolts questions defining when they stray beyond established law.
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Albuquerque, Revising Approach Toward the Homeless, Offers Them Jobs
Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice comments on Albuquerque’s approach to the homeless population.
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Video: In Social Movements, ‘Slactivists' Matter
Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication is interviewed about the role people who support causes using social media play in activism.
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Survey: 32 Private University Presidents Earn More Than $1 Million in 2013
"The presidents of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania both earned more than $3 million in 2013…."
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University of Maryland President Recommends Changing Name of Byrd Stadium, Citing Legacy of Segregation
The president of the University of Maryland is recommending that Byrd Stadium be renamed, saying the segregationist legacy of the long-honored alumnus and former college leader does not align with the university’s mission. Wallace Loh announced to the U-Md.
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College Courses That Don’t Challenge Students Can Hurt Them. They Need to Go.
I confess I took a course in college — celestial navigation — that required no homework and included a boat trip around the local harbor as a final exam. We called such courses “guts.” The college classmate I have been living with for several decades says, “We treasured them when we found them.”
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Studies Show MSIs Best Value in Higher Education
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted on the research being done to calculate the return on investment of minority higher education institutions.