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Salt Lake Tribune to Request BYU Police Records in Court

SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City newspaper is suing for access to records from Brigham Young University’s police department. The Salt Lake Tribune plans to argue in court Monday that BYU Police are subject to as much public scrutiny as any other public law enforcement agency in Utah because the state granted the […]

November 21, 2016

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San Juan College Gets $2M to Help Native Students

FARMINGTON, N.M. — San Juan College, located in northwestern New Mexico, has been awarded more than $2 million in federal grants to help Native American students complete their degrees and to fund scholarships for students in the nursing program. College officials say the funding will be used to remove obstacles that Native American students face […]

November 21, 2016

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Cornel West Returning to Harvard Faculty

Dr. Cornel West—arguably one of the nation’s most visible Black public intellectuals—will rejoin the faculty of Harvard University.

November 20, 2016

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Guillermo: Trump’s Son-in-law Benefits from White Affirmative Action

Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is an example of another kind of affirmative action—for wealthy Whites.

November 20, 2016

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Hiring Its Own Graduates Could be Key to HBCUs’ Survival

Who would be a better fit to transform the outcome of HBCUs than qualified HBCU graduates?

November 20, 2016

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Trump Agrees to $25M Settlement to Resolve Trump University Lawsuits

SAN DIEGO —President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting. The agreement came 10 days before jury selection was scheduled to begin in one […]

November 20, 2016

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University of New Mexico Professors Seeking Immigrant Student Protections

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of professors at the largest university in the nation’s most Hispanic state are asking for more protection of immigrant students joining a movement of campuses around the country. Professors and instructors at the University of New Mexico delivered a letter Friday to the school’s president, Bob Frank, amid uncertainty from […]

November 20, 2016

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Wake Forest University Naming Dorm for Poet Maya Angelou

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest University is naming a new residence hall in honor of famous former faculty member Maya Angelou. The private university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said Friday the five-story building now under construction will house more than 200 first-year students when it opens in January 2017. University President Nathan Hatch says Angelou […]

November 20, 2016

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Rutgers Confronts Ties to Slavery in Groundbreaking Report

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University is confronting its historical ties to slavery. The New Jersey school founded in 1766 has compiled research that sheds new light on its beginnings, including an untold story of a slave who helped build the university’s iconic Old Queens administration building. The detailed report released Friday is published in […]

November 20, 2016

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Trump has Undocumented Students and Their Families Scrambling

By now a great majority of the country seems to have arrived at the stage of the worst political hangover any of us have ever experienced.

November 17, 2016

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Education Department Graduate Earnings Data Rekindles Controversy

New data shows graduates from public undergraduate certificate programs earn an average $9,000 more per year than counterparts at for-profit programs.

November 17, 2016

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Melania Trump’s College Experience Amended on Bio

America’s future First Lady Melania Trump “paused her studies” to pursue a modeling career in Milan and Paris. That’s according to her new biography on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition website, GreatAgain.gov. The biography states that Melania Trump “would pursue a degree at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, but paused her studies to advance her […]

November 17, 2016