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Penn State Built a Second Law School. Now, It’s Going Back to One.

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class of 2028 will attend the combined school, which will also be called Penn State Dickinson Law. This month, the American Bar Association approved the university’s request to recombine the two similarly named schools: Penn State Law, located at the flagship University Park/State College campus, and Penn State Dickinson Law, in Carlisle.

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Ohio Wesleyan Graduate Makes $12 Million Commitment to Benefit First-Generation Students

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Thirty-eight percent of the Class of 2028 are first-generation college students. Grissom’s commitment also honors her uncle, Tom Grissom, who graduated from Ohio Wesleyan in 1962. One of every five Ohio Wesleyan students is the first in their family to attend college, according to university officials.

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College Revives Standardized Test Requirement

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The college adopted a test-optional policy for applicants to the Classes of 2025, 2026, and 2027 and a test-recommended policy for applicants to the Class of 2028 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Lee Coffin, the college’s vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid.

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The ongoing saga of REF 2028: why doesn’t teaching count for impact?

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The initial decisions on REF 2028 (REF 2028/23/01 from Research England et al ), based on the report on FRAP – the Future Research Assessment Programme – contain one surprise and one non-surprise among nearly 40 decisions. by Ian McNay Surprise, surprise…or not.

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More Selective Colleges See Diversity Dip

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Vanderbilt University’s Class of 2028 was significantly less diverse than last year’s incoming class, with underrepresented students of color declining by nearly 10 percentage points, according to institutional data released Monday. Black student enrollment decreased by the widest margin, from 11.5

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An Early Look at Diversity Post–Affirmative Action

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An Early Look at Diversity Post–Affirmative Action Liam Knox Fri, 09/06/2024 - 03:00 AM Colleges are slowly releasing demographic data for the Class of 2028, giving a glimpse of the Supreme Court ruling’s impact on racial diversity. The results are decidedly mixed. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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Ed Blum Puts Colleges ‘On Notice’ Over Diversity

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Selective colleges began unveiling demographic data for the Class of 2028, the first admitted after the 2023 affirmative action ban, just a few weeks ago, and already legal threats are flying. The affirmative action foe threatened to sue three colleges for allegedly defying the Supreme Court’s race-conscious admissions ban.