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Survey: Length of New SAT Is Biggest

Survey: Length of New SAT Is Biggest Complaint Among First-Round of Test-TakersNEW YORK In a nationwide survey of test-takers conducted by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, 87 percent of students recently taking the new SAT reported that the three-hour, 45-minute exam was the longest test of their lives, making stamina and extended concentration a greater […]

April 6, 2005

African-American

Desperately Seeking Students

Desperately Seeking StudentsSeveral public flagships attempt to reverse disturbing declines in Black student college enrollment By Lydia LumAs high-school seniors begin to choose colleges in the coming months, officials at many public flagships nervously hope that their renewed outreach to Black students reverses steep and disappointing enrollment drops. Those declines, some of them by double-digit […]

March 23, 2005

Law Would Require Harder Classes for Top 10 Percent Applicants to University of Texas

Law Would Require Harder Classes for Top 10 Percent Applicants to University of TexasAUSTIN, Texas Students who want automatic admission to Texas universities would have to take tougher high-school classes under a bill filed last month by Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas. West says the university admissions law that requires universities to accept graduates who rank […]

February 23, 2005

Judge Awards Plaintiffs $672,000

Judge Awards Plaintiffs $672,000 In Legal Fees in Michigan Admissions CaseDETROIT A federal judge recently ordered the University of Michigan to pay $672,000 in legal fees and costs to attorneys for students who sued the school over its use of affirmative action in undergraduate admissions policies. The university had maintained it wasn’t responsible for the […]

February 23, 2005

Texas 10 Percent Plan Has Not Improved Minority

Texas 10 Percent Plan Has Not Improved Minority Representation, Republican Leader SaysAUSTIN, TexasTexas law requiring public colleges and universities to accept students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school classes has harmed schools and has not improved minority representation, Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick said last month. Craddick and other lawmakers […]

February 9, 2005

The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite

The Early Admissions Game: Joining the EliteBy Dr. Christopher Avery, Andrew Fairbanks and Dr. Richard ZeckhauserHarvard University Press, 2004389 pp., $16.95 ISBN: 067401620-3Each year, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors compete in a game they’ll play only once, whose rules they do not fully understand, yet whose consequences are enormous. The game is college […]

January 12, 2005

Appeals Panel Backs UW’s Use of Race in Law School Admissions

Appeals Panel Backs UW’s Use of Race in Law School AdmissionsSEATTLEThe University of Washington Law School did not illegally discriminate against three White applicants when it denied them admission in the mid-1990s, a federal appeals court panel ruled in December. The decision upheld a 2002 ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly, and means Katuria […]

January 12, 2005

Recruitment & Retention

University of Georgia President Says School Will Increase Black Enrollment

University of Georgia President Says School Will Increase Black EnrollmentOnly 200 Black students enrolled out of a class of 4,500 freshmenATHENS, Ga. University of Georgia President Michael Adams said the school will take steps in the coming year to increase its enrollment of Black freshmen. He declined to comment on a faculty committee’s recommendation that […]

December 29, 2004

Whites Denied Admission to University

Whites Denied Admission to University Of Michigan Seek Damages for 30,000 OthersANN ARBOR, Mich.Lawyers for two White students whose lawsuit overturned the affirmative action admissions program then in use at the University of Michigan have asked a federal judge to award damages to 30,000 other White and Asian applicants. The motion was filed earlier this […]

December 29, 2004

Judge Says Pluses Came From Mississippi’s College Desegregation Case

Judge Says Pluses Came From Mississippi’s College Desegregation CaseJACKSON, Miss.Afederal judge who presided over Mississippi’s college desegregation lawsuit says the main plus of the case is that the new admission standards are now such that Black students can easily attend any university in the state. However, U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. said the courts […]

November 17, 2004

Leadership & Policy

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy Still an Issue for Regents’ ElectionGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. More than a year has passed since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the University of Michigan’s undergraduate admissions policy as too formulaic because it awarded points based on race. But the decision remains an important issue to several people running in […]

October 20, 2004

Federal Desegregation Case Allows Auburn to Meet Diversity Goals

Federal Desegregation Case Allows Auburn to Meet Diversity GoalsAUBURN, Ala. Black applicants to Auburn University are automatically admitted if they meet minimum requirements, while students of other races with similar credentials often face further review before admission, school officials said. The two-year-old procedure is not official university policy, which would require approval by trustees, but […]

October 20, 2004

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