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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Acclimate collegiate Black males to the campus career center for employment, internship, and skill development opportunities.

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

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However, the lawsuit accuses 568 of violating the law by conspiring with each other to discover students’ finances, favoring wealthy students and turning away those who would need financial aid upon acceptance, reports Insider. This extended to their waitlist decisions as well. UChicago doesn’t admit any wrongdoing.

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

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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

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“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.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

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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 didn't address financial aid and scholarships. It didn't address employment issues.

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Fight Over Student Debt Cancellation Hits Supreme Court

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Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that the HEROES Act of 2003 gives clear authority for debt cancellation by authorizing the Secretary of Education to “waive or modify” provisions relating to Title IV of the Higher Education Act, which authorizes student loans.

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Supreme Court Rules Student Loan Forgiveness Unconstitutional

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Justin Draeger, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, wondered whether the decision would lead to more lasting fixes in the future.