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What the Supreme Court’s Admissions Decision Says About Democracy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And – of course – admissions. Which brings me to the Supreme Court’s long-awaited decision limiting the use of race as a factor in college admissions. Terri Taylor We did not get 237 pages of majority opinion, dissents, and concurrences solely to explain how highly selective universities should do admissions. Affordability.

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Higher Ed Stakeholders Look to Socioeconomic Status as Alternative to Race in Admissions

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Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions in June has left universities, nonprofit organizations, Richard Kahlenberg and other higher education stakeholders with a single question: What are the best paths forward? Programs like Landscape and the Davis Scale have been developed across the U.S.

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Creating Diverse Pathways for the Next Generation of Doctors

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A bright young scholar, Pickens graduated as the top-ranked student from Miami Northwestern Senior High School in the Class of 2021, armed with an impressive academic record and multiple offers of admission from institutions such as Harvard, Howard, Duke, and the University of Miami.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

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The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. had already outlawed the use of race in their admissions long before this ruling. Dr. Jessica Faiz. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In my opinion, the rapid integration of AI in the everyday marketplace through cellular phones opened the door to full AI lifestyle integrations like facial recognition, Alexa, smart home devices, chatbots, online banking security, healthcare diagnosis, language translation, and the like.

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Christopher Edley, Prominent Legal Scholar, Passes Away

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.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of California, Irvine, will launch an interdisciplinary, pre-health professional development program, which aims to support students from underserved communities interested in healthcare careers. UCPPP will expand the pool of talented and motivated students who will go on to practice healthcare where it’s needed most.”