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Wesleyan University to End Legacy Admission Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wesleyan University will no longer engage in legacy admissions. Family members of alumni will receive no preference and will be admitted based on their own merits, Roth said. Wesleyan plans to encourage geographic diversity by recruiting students from across the U.S.; Roth said in a statement.

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Supreme Court's Hollow Ruling One Year Later: Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Students Left Behind in the Pursuit of a 'Race-Blind' Agenda’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. Students and alumni fought to voice the importance of race-conscious policies, campus diversity, and solidarity among communities of color.

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of affirmative action in the higher education admissions process continue to ripple across the nation. Harvey Proactive, targeted zip code-focused recruitment combined with direct admissions. Concerned alumni groups. The shock waves that erupted following the U.S. Dr. William B.

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leonard and Laura Kennedy, an admissions officer at MSU, were tasked with researching institutions with similar initiatives. “We NATAP] was to really focus on what is inhibiting [Native] students from participating on our campus and becoming our students and our alumni.” says Weatherspoon in an interview with Diverse.

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leonard and Laura Kennedy, an admissions officer at MSU, were tasked with researching institutions with similar initiatives. “We NATAP] was to really focus on what is inhibiting [Native] students from participating on our campus and becoming our students and our alumni.” says Weatherspoon in an interview with Diverse.

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Which 2 groups can actually be hurt by the end of legacy admissions? One may surprise you

University Business

Several prominent universities banned legacy admissions when affirmative action ended. With students from underserved backgrounds liable to take the biggest step backward, university officials believed the practice of favoring applicants who hail from alumni was difficult to justify. Vincent’s College in Pennsylvania.

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UC Irvine to Launch Pre-Health Professional Development Program to Support Students from Underserved Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Candice Taylor Lucas, associate clinical professor of pediatrics and co-director of the Program in Medical Education Leadership Education to Advance Diversity–African, Black, and Caribbean; and Ursula Worsham, chief diversity officer and assistant dean of admissions in the School of Medicine. “We