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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. The demand for professional interpreters and translators continues to grow.”

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The Ongoing Fight for Diversity in Higher Ed

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

The University of Texas at Austin currently faces the latest in a series of lawsuits challenging the University’s admissions policies. The number of Hispanic students has increased dramatically since the passage of the 1997 law, and the current race-conscious admissions program at UT survived a challenge at the Supreme Court in 2016.

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In Memoriam

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edley spent more than two decades as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he and Orfield founded the Civil Rights Project in the aftermath of a 1996 court ruling that squelched race-conscious admission policies at many universities. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the UT practices. Orrick, Jr.

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How College Transforms Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Terenzini’s How College Affects Students (originally published in 1991 and revised in 2005 and updated in 2016 by Matthew J. Astin’s Four Critical Years: Effects of College on Beliefs, Attitudes and Knowledge (1977) and its sequel What Matters in College: Four Critical Years Revisited (1993), and Ernest T. Mayhew, Alyssa N.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life. The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys its Way into Elite Colleges and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. The Great Training Robbery: Education and Jobs."