Tag: admissions
Air Force Academy Stops Considering Class Diversity in Admissions Process
The Justice Department said in a filing Friday that the academy changed its policy to adhere to an executive order issued in January by President Trum [...]
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmativ [...]
Justice Dept. Will Investigate California Universities Over Race in Admissions
California banned affirmative action decades ago. The Trump administration says it plans to investigate whether schools there are still considering ra [...]
Appeals Court Lets Trump Pause New Refugee Admissions Amid Lawsuit
A court order requires thousands of refugees to be admitted to the United States. But funding for organizations that assist them after arrival remains [...]
Trump’s Suspension of Refugee Admissions Puts Afghans at Risk, Advocate Says
The order “risks abandoning thousands of Afghan wartime allies” who worked with Americans before the Taliban takeover, the head of a resettlement grou [...]
Supreme Court Turns Down Cases on Admissions, Gender Identity and Guns
Conservative justices voiced objections and concerns about the court’s failures to take up a series of cases on major social controversies.
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How FAFSA Upended This Year’s College Admissions
The Education Department was supposed to make applying for federal financial aid easier. Instead, it got worse.
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Supreme Court Won’t Block Use of Race in West Point Admissions for Now
The court rejected an emergency request to temporarily bar the military academy from using race in admissions while a lower-court lawsuit proceeds.
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Supreme Court Is Asked to Hear a New Admissions Case on Race
In the latest challenge to the role race may play in school admissions, a legal activist group asked the Supreme Court on Monday to hear a case on how [...]
Biden and Legacy Admissions: A Political Win and a ‘Band Aid’ for Education
In the final month of his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden stood before a drive-in crowd in Toledo, Ohio, and announced he had “a chip on my shou [...]
Education Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Harvard Legacy Admissions
The Education Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s preferences for the relatives of alumni and donors when mak [...]
Five Ways College Admissions Could Change After Affirmative Action Decision
Students may change what they write about in the college essay. And they may no longer be tortured by the SAT and ACT.As for children of alumni? The p [...]
Supreme Court Could Consider Virginia High School’s Admissions
In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is very likely to forbid colleges and universities to use race as a factor in admissions decisions. Indeed, whe [...]
How Will College Admissions Change if Affirmative Action is Overturned?
Two “race-neutral alternatives” are frequently proposed: a search for socioeconomic diversity, which is often a proxy for racial and ethnic diversity, [...]
Supreme Court Allows Elite High School’s New Admissions Rules
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily approved new admissions criteria at an elite public high school in Virginia that eliminated stand [...]