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What Does It Mean to Not be Black Enough?

So the question comes up, what is Black enough and what are the qualifications?

The Secret Sauce of College Admissions

The truth is that selectivity is often based on how you measure and value it.

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NCAA Graduation Rates Improve, Critics Cry Foul

NCAA President Mark Emmert keeps touting the record-breaking graduation rates of Division I athletes. Critics keep balking at the interpretation of those numbers, citing recent academic scandals.

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Murray State Deferring Some Applications from Africa

Murray State University in Kentucky is deferring applications from students in West African countries affected by Ebola until the fall of 2015.

Wainstein Report on UNC Should Make All Schools Rethink Athletics

It’s time to drop the pretense and separate sports from the schools.

Failures in Oversight Worsened University of North Carolina Academic Fraud

Failures in Oversight Worsened University of North Carolina Academic Fraud.

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Panel Addresses Sexual Violence at the University of Oregon

A task force studying ways to prevent sexual violence at the University of Oregon has come up with a list of nearly two dozen recommendations, including the creation of a single office dedicated to addressing the problem.

Faculty & Staff

Keene State Professors Concerned Student Riots Becoming Accepted as the Norm

Student celebrations associated with Pumpkin Fest, which was originally founded as a family celebration, devolved into an hours-long riot between students and police on Saturday afternoon.

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Probe Reveals Scope of Academic Fraud at the University of North Carolina

More than 3,100 students—nearly half of them athletes—enrolled in classes they didn’t have to show up for and received artificially inflated grades in what an investigator called a “shadow curriculum” that lasted nearly two decades at the University of North Carolina.

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The University of Michigan Reports Undergraduate Enrollment Up

The University of Michigan announced it has 112 more students now than a year ago.

In Case You Missed It…

Conference Brings Black Doctoral Candidates Together to Focus on Path to Success Report Encourages Incentivizing States to Share in Costs of Higher Education Free College Advising to Be Offered to Students from Poor and Middle Class Families The Secret Sauce of College Admissions

Foreign Students and the U.S. Higher Education Admissions Market

The fact is that American colleges and universities are doing a miserable job at recruiting students that they would welcome and who would add tremendous value to the campus community.

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