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UChicago pays $13.5 million settlement to group accusing it engaged in price fixing

University Business

million to settle a lawsuit claiming the university and other elite schools considered applicants’ wealth in the admissions process and dissuaded those who displayed financial need. antitrust law by practicing need-blind admissions. antitrust law by practicing need-blind admissions.

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Survey: Students and parents stress cost and career prep when picking a college

University Business

Financing school is the top roadblock for applicants, parents In 2003, 52% of respondents chose “Won’t get into first-choice college” as their biggest worry while 8% chose “Level of debt to pay for the degree.” Twenty years later, the respondents flipped the survey on its heads.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

EAB

Art previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, where, in the 1990s, he led the department's development of its Title VI policy on race-conscious financial aid. The Court actually refused to do that. Which is, as I’ve said, an exceptionally fine line.