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Initiative in California Clearing Path to Law School for Underrepresented

There’s a broad effort to encourage and steer more community college graduates in California — especially minorities and other underrepresented populations — into law school.

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Faculty & Staff

Bensimon’s Journey Leads to Advocacy for Equity

At the 10th Annual American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education’s National Conference in March, Dr. Estela Bensimon will receive the Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education: Research/Teaching (Research Institutions) award.

Dr. Estela Bensimon says several years of work in the nonprofit sector guided her to the “notion that you bring about change by involving people who are most impacted by conditions of inequity.” (Photo courtesy of University of Southern California)

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Academic Racism in Play in Regard to Athletes North Carolina Central University Making History of its Own Pell Grant Eligibility Clarification Opens Doors of Opportunity for Juvenile Offenders Report: Campus-Based Child Care on Decline

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Bob Jones University Releases Report on Handling Sex Abuse Complaints

An independent report on how Bob Jones University has dealt with sexual abuse over several decades concluded that university employees weren’t properly trained to handle such cases and victims seem to have been blamed.

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FDA Gives Approval for Marijuana Oil Study

The Food and Drug Administration has given the University of Alabama at Birmingham permission to study the use of a marijuana derivative to treat seizures.

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Professor’s Early Experiences Combating Racism Come in Handy for Helping, Healing When the ‘Rule of Law’ is Unjust DREAM Youth Expressing Mixed Emotions over Obama Immigration Plan Obama Promises Funding, Resources in Response to Tribal Nations’ Education ‘Emergency’

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Poet, Professor Claudia Emerson Dies at 57

Claudia Emerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, died early Thursday morning at age 57 after a long battle with cancer, the university said.

Faculty & Staff

Berkeley’s Campus Free Speech Movement Turns 50

In the waning days of 1964, University of California, Berkeley, students found their collective voice in challenging a campus ban on political advocacy.

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Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Sees More Minority Students

Minority student enrollment at Southern Illinois University’s Edwardsville campus is the highest it’s been in at least two decades.

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University of Utah Professor Wants ‘Drone Court’ to Approve Strikes

Today, when U.S. intelligence agencies believe they know the location of a terrorist in Pakistan and a few other countries, they are largely free to deploy a weapon that’s become the symbol of war on terror: an aerial drone.

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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Professors Examine Winter Driving

People who were perfectly fine driving on snow at the tail end of winter go sliding all over the streets and highways when the first snowfall makes things slippery the next winter.

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ASHE: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Could Face Rough Road Ahead

At a panel focusing on Hispanic-serving institutions, panelists looked to the past and future of the institutions that are predominantly serving one of the fastest growing demographics in the nation.

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