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Blacks, Hispanics Losing Out on LSAT-based Financial Aid

The result of privileging LSAT scores through merit-based scholarships is what some call a “reverse Robin Hood” effect, in which students from less privileged backgrounds end up shouldering more of the cost of law school.

Kyle McEntee is executive director and co-founder of Law School Transparency

Leadership & Policy

Sweet Briar College Names Former UVa Dean as New President

SWEET BRIAR, Va. — Sweet Briar College has selected a new president. News outlets report Meredith Woo will become the college’s 13th president on May 15. The college announced Monday that Woo will succeed Phillip C. Stone who’s set to retire after this academic year. Woo has been in London most recently as director of […]

Growth in K-12 Student Diversity Impacts Postsecondary Education

With the rise in diversity, colleges and universities need to focus on how to not only enroll student of color, but to ensure their success.

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Asian American Pacific Islander

Report: Asian-American Wealth Inequality Gap Widening

Wealth among Asian Americans is so highly concentrated among those at the top of the socioeconomic ladder that wealth inequality among people of Asian descent is even greater than wealth inequality among Whites.

Grad Student Held in Stabbing Death of USC Professor Bosco Tjan

The University of Southern California will mourn the loss of professor Bosco Tjan in a special prayer ceremony Monday, as the graduate student believed to have stabbed Tjan remains jailed.

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Report: Housing, Food Insecurities on Rise for Community College Students

Food and housing insecurities continue to be a major issue for community college students across the nation, particularly African-American and Southeast Asian students.

Leadership & Policy

Guiyou Huang Named LSU-Alexandria Chancellor

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University-Alexandria has a new chancellor. LSU President F. King Alexander announced in a news release Tuesday Guiyou Huang will take over the chancellor’s post on Jan. 1. Huang is currently the senior vice president for academic affairs, dean of the faculty and professor of English at Norwich University, in […]

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Protests Bring Out Angry Millennials in Chicago

Thousands of unhappy citizens took to the streets of Chicago in protest last night.

Thousands of protesters take to the streets of Chicago, Illinois, USA, on November 9, 2016 after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. (Photo from Sipa via AP Images)

Virginia Tech President Wants to Double Minority Enrollments

BLACKSBURG, Va. ― Virginia Tech President Timothy Sands is calling on the university to double its enrollment of underrepresented minority groups over the next six years. The Roanoke Times reports that currently, about 12 percent of Tech’s students are Black, Hispanic or of Pacific Islander descent. Sands said during a board of visitors meeting Monday […]

Polls: Americans Wary of College Costs, Leadership and Value

Overshadowed by the presidential race has been another set of polls this campaign season. These show what Americans increasingly think about higher education.

Asian American Pacific Islander

UCLA Celebrates Public Access to Key Japanese-American Incarceration Collection

Now, educators and the general public can view documents and legal memoranda retrieved during Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga’s years of research and gathering evidence proving that the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans was unnecessary.

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Diverse Conversations: Should Diversity of a College be Ranked?

Using diversity as a college ranking benchmark would force colleges to step up their game, recruiting more diverse student and faculty populations.

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