[ad_1] When Harvard University admitted several candidates linked to influential donors in 2013, including one who had promised to pay for a building, the dean of the Kennedy School sent an email …
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[ad_1] BOSTON – If admission to Harvard was based solely on academic merit, Americans of Asian descent would account for 43% of the freshmen class, while African Americans would represent less than …
Read More »The Dean of Admissions at Harvard testifies then that the test for positive action begins
[ad_1] Mr. Hughes has repeatedly tried to ask Mr. Fitzsimmons to explain why Americans of Asian descent in a sparse country had not received a letter of interest, while their classmates from …
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[ad_1] View of the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Charles Krupa / AP) Nick Anderson Reporter covering higher education, national education policy and the global education market October 15 at …
Read More »On the eve of the Harvard admissions trial, dueling rallies illustrate the politics of the case
[ad_1] The images above both circulated widely on social media Sunday afternoon, documenting rallies – one in Cambridge and the other in Boston – on the trial officially opened today for whether …
Read More »Why admissions to elite colleges need to change
[ad_1] SAmantha remembers her high school days more like a university trial version. She seems both amused and shameful in remembering the hours spent editing her resume, or the overtime spent furrying …
Read More »Malaise invades the halls of Harvard on the eve of a lawsuit over race-based admissions
[ad_1] As Harvard University prepares Monday to defend its selective and highly secretive admission process in a Boston courtroom, outside groups gather their forces, protesters descend on the city, and a planned …
Read More »What are the stakes of Harvard's legal action? Decades of race debate in admissions
[ad_1] "The Supreme Court has been vague about what is OK," said William Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago. "It looks like they say it's O.K. provided it's not …
Read More »Trump reduces the number of refugee admissions
[ad_1] US refugee resettlement system collapses Indeed, "cap" is somewhat misleading: administrations have generally considered the number as a goal and have actively tried to reach it. This exercise has been different …
Read More »The Trump administration announces a record ceiling for refugee admissions
[ad_1] The United States will cap refugee admissions to 30,000 in 2019, a 33 per cent drop from a record high of 45,000 set in 2018. Pompeo said that the number should …
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