Trustees pressed Chapel Hill on scholar admissions

The chair of the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees appeared to strain workers to confess particular college students, based on a report from The Meeting based mostly on greater than 100 pages of textual content messages it obtained by means of an open data request. The North Carolina–targeted information outlet…

Decide says Naval Academy can think about race in admissions

The U.S. Naval Academy can proceed to contemplate race when evaluating candidates to the elite army greater training establishment, a federal decide dominated Friday. The choice comes within the wake of final yr’s historic Supreme Court docket ruling, which barred civilian faculties from utilizing affirmative motion in admissions. The justices had exempted army establishments from…

California bans legacy admissions in any respect faculties

California governor Gavin Newsom signed laws banning admissions preferences for kin of alumni and donors at each private and non-private universities within the state on Monday, the second legislation within the nation that applies to unbiased in addition to public faculties. The legislation is essentially the most vital win but for opponents of legacy admissions,…