#Supreme Court hands down blow to college affirmative action

#Supreme Court hands down blow to college affirmative action

The Supreme Court severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used to select students from their applicant pools. The court’s six conservative justices invalidated Harvard’s and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC) admissions policies by ruling they did not comply…

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#First generation Florida teen gets into every Ivy League college

#First generation Florida teen gets into every Ivy League college

“First generation Florida teen gets into every Ivy League college” A Florida teenager, who is a first-generation Nigerian-American, has quite the variety of Ivy League schools to choose from — every one of them. Ashley Adirika, a debate champ who hopes to help alleviate income inequality, got into Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton…

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#’Cult’ of fear harmed kids and other commentary

#’Cult’ of fear harmed kids and other commentary

“‘Cult’ of fear harmed kids and other commentary” COVID watch: ‘Cult’ of Fear Harmed Kids “There is no shortage of articles and studies documenting the harm caused by COVID-19 school policies,” notes Alex Gutentag at Tablet. One stat: “The rate of chronically absent students nationwide is now 22%, 2.7 times what it was before school closures.” As…

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#Harvard sets up 0M endowment fund for slavery reparations

#Harvard sets up $100M endowment fund for slavery reparations

“Harvard sets up $100M endowment fund for slavery reparations” April 26 – Harvard University is setting aside $100 million for an endowment fund and other measures to close the educational, social and economic gaps that are legacies of slavery and racism, according to an email the university’s president sent to all students, faculty and staff on Tuesday. The email from Harvard President Lawrence Bacow included a…

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#Harvard students’ site helping Ukraine refugees find housing

#Harvard students’ site helping Ukraine refugees find housing

“Harvard students’ site helping Ukraine refugees find housing” CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in — and it’s generating offers of help and housing worldwide. Moved by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape…

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#Harvard cancels a black academic who debunked woke orthodoxy

#Harvard cancels a black academic who debunked woke orthodoxy

“Harvard cancels a black academic who debunked woke orthodoxy” Roland G. Fryer is a tenured professor of economics at Harvard — an anointed member of the elite by most definitions. He is also black, widely published and the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur “genius” grant for his work on the black “achievement gap”…

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#Harvard scientist advocates for more funding into alien life, UFO research

#Harvard scientist advocates for more funding into alien life, UFO research

“#Harvard scientist advocates for more funding into alien life, UFO research” The government should be stowing away more money to look into the presence of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University professor and astrophysicist Avi Loeb argued Tuesday on “Fox News Primetime.” Loeb explained that the scientific community often ridicules the idea of alien existence. Meanwhile, he…

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