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UNC Chapel Hill Responds to Supreme Court Decision

University will pay for tuition and required fees for incoming undergraduates from North Carolina whose families make less than $80,000 per year.

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Opinion

Education as Privilege Laundering

The most powerful contemporary magic is to transform money into “merit,” Musa al-Gharbi writes.

Opinion

Confronting Racism After Affirmative Action

What faculty can and should do to help all of their future students.

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After Supreme Court Ruling, Can the Essay Get You In?

It may help to identify minority students, but experts caution against expecting essays to replace affirmative action.

The Week in Admissions News

Phone-free experiences for students; high demand for online education at community colleges; expanding CUNY's ASAP.

NAACP Launches ‘Diversity No Matter What’ Campaign

The NAACP is asking more than 1,600 colleges, public and private, that have competitive admissions policies to join its new...
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Does the Supreme Court Order Apply to Financial Aid?

Missouri attorney general tells all colleges to drop minority scholarships. University of Missouri system complies.

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Opinion

Affirmative Action and the Myth of Merit

A more inclusive definition of merit provides an opportunity for higher ed to reinvent itself after the Supreme Court’s damaging decision, Demetria D. Frank, Darrell D. Jackson and Jamila Jefferson-Jones write.