Excelencia in Education Publishes Analysis about Today’s Latino College Students

Latino college students are more likely to be first-generation students and less likely to leave college having earned their degrees, according to a new report from Excelencia in Education.Emily Labandera The April 2024 report uses publicly available data to provide readers with a “fundamental understanding” of who Latino students are, how they fit a “post-traditional…

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Advice to Campus Administrators: Don’t Call it an “Expressive Activities Policy,” Except to the Extent that Expressive Activities Receive Extra Solicitude | Michael C. Dorf | Verdict

The fall semester is now in full swing at college and university campuses around the country. After a tumultuous spring semester in which administrators came in for criticism for either over-reacting or under-reacting to students protesting the war in Gaza, many colleges and universities spent the summer revising their policies for addressing such matters going…

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The Implications of New York’s Proposed Equal Rights Amendment for Abortion | Michael C. Dorf | Verdict

The stakes of the current Presidential contest are extremely high. Former President Donald Trump has made clear his intention to replace longtime civil servants with servile hacks, immiserate undocumented immigrants, reverse efforts to combat the climate emergency, abandon Ukraine to the untender mercies of Vladimir Putin, and use the organs of government to persecute his…

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‘Like climbing up Mount Everest’: Financial aid professionals describe a grueling FAFSA season

Listen to the article 11 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The past few months have been trying for Saint Louis University’s student financial aid office, which worked overtime trying to process and distribute financial aid packages to prospective students.  Like financial aid administrators across the country, employees…

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Dumbing Down America | Diverse: Issues In Higher Education

Former President Barack Obama said it at the Democratic Convention in August. Vice President Kamala Harris has been saying it in her recent speeches.  And in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington last Thursday, while extolling his initiatives to bring chip manufacturing back to the United States, President Joe Biden described building new massive factories (“fabs”)…

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