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A degree of success – Black students raise Scholastic Assessment Test scores, overcoming ‘stereotype vulnerability’ – Recruitment & Retention

`Stereotype Vulnerability’ Being Overcome As Black Students Raise Their SAT Scores And Collect More Degrees.

June 15, 2007

Affirmative Action Admits Tend To Be More Successful Than Legacy Admits, Says Study

Researchers at Princeton University have found that students who received legacy admissions are more likely to face academic challenges than Blacks who were admitted under affirmative action admissions programs.

April 25, 2007

Clark Atlanta Engineering Program Has Day In Court

Clark Atlanta University engineering student Yemaya Stallworth sat in a Georgia courtroom Tuesday trying to make sense of the school’s attempts to shut down its engineering program.

March 13, 2007

Pushing The Debate Over the Usefulness of ACT and SAT

In a report released this week, the National Association for College Admission Counseling tries to promote public dialogue about the real purpose and usefulness of ACT and SAT college entrance exams. The report urges colleges to do research that shows whether test scores — and other admission criteria — predict student performance.

February 21, 2007

New York: A Statistical Snapshot

With a population of 19 million, the state of New York is known for many things, one being its ethnic diversity…

February 21, 2007

Percentage of U.S. Students Taking High School

A leading scientific association reports that a record number of U.S. high school students are currently enrolled in physics courses…

February 21, 2007

College Chiefs Urged To Shed Elitist Tendencies At ACE Conference

“The Access Imperative” is the theme of this year’s American Council on Education Annual Meeting, which concludes today in Washington. College administrators gathered for the conference on Monday received some stern advice for achieving the diversity they say they want: Stop relying on SAT scores and other assessments that are really only accessible to the elite.

February 12, 2007

Wisconsin Regents Consider Rewriting Admissions Policy To Include Race, Income

MADISON, Wis. A proposed rewrite of the freshmen admissions policy for the University of Wisconsin System would de-emphasize class rank and give greater weight to nonacademic factors such as race and income.

December 4, 2006

Admissions Anxiety Reaches New Regions

DURHAM N.C. SAT tutors. High-priced essay coaches. Over-the-top parents who make selecting a college feel like a matter of life and death. They have become commonplace in admissions “hot spots,” largely in the Northeast and on the West Coast places where the college application process is palpably more intense than elsewhere. But now admissions anxiety is creeping into other parts of the country.

October 21, 2006

Battle Over Michigan’s Anti-affirmative Action Ballot Initiative Heats Up

The Center for Equal Opportunity released three studies on Tuesday that indicated a strong bias towards Black applicants at the University of Michigan. Critics immediately slammed the organization for attempting to influence next month’s referendum on affirmative action with a flawed analysis ignorant of the admissions process.

October 17, 2006

College Board Seeks to Improve College Readiness of Minorities

No longer satisfied with just testing students to see if they’re ready for college, the College Board, producers of the SAT college entrance exam, has moved into select high schools with a new curriculum officials say will actually prepare poor and minority students for college.

October 3, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Quotes of Note

“Let’s talk about the complicity of the Episcopal Church as one of the institutions of this country who, of course…

September 20, 2006

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