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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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U.S. Inching Closer to Goal of Working Adults Attaining Degree or Credential

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008. In 2008, only one state had set a degree or certificate attainment goal for its own population: Hawaii.

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Higher ed has a digital accessibility compliance problem. What can you do to get up to speed?

University Business

31: How does this complicate your admissions team? Despite DOE issuing similar letters in 2008 and 2015, institutions falling into accessibility compliance traps may be due to a lack of awareness, says Brian Robinson, senior vice president of product at Watermark, an edtech company focused on student success.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students know that if they successfully complete this program, they are guaranteed admission to an affiliated four-year institution. The transfer rate is 85% for students within three years of admission to EPW. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession. or a graduate GPA of 3.0;

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National Hazing Prevention Week 2021

Missouri State

The policy reads “Hazing, an act that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student, or which destroys or removes public or private property, for the purpose of initiation or admission into, affiliation with or as a condition of continued membership in a group or organization. Contact the Office of Student Conduct.

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Emerging leaders: 4 colleges hire their first Black or female—or both—president

University Business

The president-elect currently serves as co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and sits on the board of the Law School Admissions Council. Since 2008, he has raised the school’s endowment past $150 million through several campaigns.

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3 ways to improve student choice and why it’s important for higher ed’s health

University Business

This report is one of two newly released publications launching Bellwether’s Admission , a beta initiative that will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to chart a course toward a more equitable and effective postsecondary system. More from UB: Data science degrees are dynamic and highly valued.