Ever since the high court's controversial ruling in Bush v. Gorein 2000, the possibility that the Supreme Court might decide a close presidential contest has loomed over electoral politics. And while that improbable scenario is unlikely to repeat, the proliferation of lawsuits this cycle has incre...
Freshman enrollment rose 5.5% in fall 2024, with the highest increases at community colleges and for-profit schools. Sarah WoodJan. 24, 2025 A Guide to College Financial Aid Financial aid is any form of funding that helps a student pay for college, such as a Pell Grant, loan or merit-ba...
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Being a member of an ethnic group that has an interesting cultural practice. Fluency in another language that you use to help members of your community. Being a member of a fandom. You have 300 words to work with, which is a considerable length, so feel free to structure your essay using...
He also had to drop swimming to have time to practice running. This was kept up until his web feet were badly worn, which made him only average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school, so nobody worried about that—except the duck....
“This is not the U.S. Supreme Court,” Richardson says. “Don’t argue about the rule any more than you would argue with a police officer about the speed limit on a certain street.” If you think the rule should be changed, get your neighbors to join you in a petiti...
For example, they might schedule work events to celebrate different cultures or implement cultural competence training. That said, you can’t practice diverse hiring and then neglect workplace inclusion. People who feel alienated, misunderstood, and otherwise “passed over” in daily work will not ...
In June 2023, the United States Supreme Courtstruck down the use of affirmative actionin college admissions. The ruling, however, still allows colleges to consider race on an individual basis, which is one reason many schools are now including diversity prompts as one of their supplemental essay...
The Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) is now pushing back against the Supreme Court's decision to end affirmative action by filing a federal civil rights complaint against Harvard College "challenging its discriminatory practice of giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to appl...
Now back to Healey.Our governor’s proposal is still lacking in detail. But it appears to hew closely to what Biden put forward in 2022 and doubled down on inanother wave of pardons late last year, both in practice and in message. ...