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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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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. Take the question I raised a minute ago, of financial aid and scholarships. Certainly for the short term.