Associated PressHomeLawmaker Wants to Alter University Admissions Practices in Mich.A state lawmaker is drawing up a proposal that would give the top 10 percent of graduates at each of Michigan’s high schools automatic admission to state universities.April 13, 2008StudentsCollege Students Want to Bring Concealed Guns to SchoolCollege students who say they’re powerless against campus attacks by gunmen want to push legislators and school administrators to let them arm themselves.April 13, 2008HomeCatholic college in Chicago shut down indefinitely after threats found in dormOfficials of a Catholic liberal arts college shut it down indefinitely and told students to leave campus after threatening messages were found scrawled in the bathroom of a freshman dorm.April 13, 2008HomeIndia’s Top Court Upholds Government Affirmative Action Plan for Lower-caste StudentsNEW DELHI India’s top court on Thursday upheld an affirmative action program reserving more than a quarter of the seats at the country’s top government-funded schools for members of the lower castes. The Supreme Court, however, ruled that lower-caste students belonging to financially well-off families should not be allowed to benefit from the program. A […]April 10, 2008HealthVirginia Tech Families Reach $11M SettlementMost families of victims of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech have agreed to an $11 million state settlement that will compensate families who lost loved ones, pay survivors’ medical costs and avoid a court battle over whether anyone besides the gunman was to blame.April 10, 2008StudentsColleges in Washington State Launch Student Mental Health ProgramsHigh-profile campus killings spur the creation of mental health teams at colleges across Washington state. The goal is to watch troubled students.April 9, 2008Community CollegesGalliher Not Target Of Alabama Two-Year College System ProbeState Rep. Blaine Galliher said he has been told by federal prosecutors that he is not a target of the investigation of the state’s two-year college system.April 9, 2008HomeFederal Lawsuit Filed Over UT Race-based Admissions PoliciesA legal group that fights racial preferences in schools filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the University of Texas at Austin, claiming its undergraduate admissions policies violate the Constitution and federal law.April 8, 2008Leadership & PolicyCollege Leaders Say Ohio’s New Education Plan a Good StartCollege administrators generally support Ohio’s new goals of making higher education more affordable through lower tuition and more accountable by setting up a system of benchmarks.April 7, 2008StudentsN.J. Investigating Why Camden Students Made to Eat on FloorState Education Department officials are investigating how 15 Hispanic elementary students were punished in Camden.April 7, 2008Previous PagePage 322 of 569Next Page