Gov. John W. Hickenlooper of Colorado is expected to sign into law a bill, passed on Friday by the state’s House of Representatives, that would allow students who entered the United States illegally to pay in-state tuition at Colorado’s public colleges.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The F.B.I. is investigating racist and antigay messages left around Oberlin College in the past month and the possible sighting of someone wearing a Ku Klux Klan-type outfit, a college spokesman said on Friday.
Read more in The New York Times.
WHEN the Supreme Court last ruled on affirmative action, almost a decade ago, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy issued a 13-page dissent that may now provide the best guide to the future of affirmative action.
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The disproportionate power enjoyed in the Senate by small states is playing a growing role in the political dynamic on issues as varied as gun control, immigration and campaign finance.
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Although African Americans constitute 2% of the county’s population, they have been one of the most targeted for hate crimes, human relations panel says.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
SAN ANTONIO — On a wall in his sun-drenched, art-filled Tudor home, Henry R. Muñoz III displays a memento of his childhood: a framed protest sign proclaiming, “Texas needs $1.25 an hour minimum wage.” He carried it when he was 6 years old while riding a burro during a farm workers’ march alongside his father,
As a conservative with gay friends, nothing would make me happier than to watch Californians pass an initiative to legalize same-sex marriage — preferably with protections for religious objectors. Polls suggest it would pass today. Then the issue would be settled and Californians — not a court in Washington — would have determined their own
A report by the Oakland-based Education Trust–West organization documenting the educational status of African-American youth in Los Angeles County has painted a dismal picture of the college readiness and college completion prospects for a cohort that makes up one-third of all Black K-12 students in California.
Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
The presidents of Cornell University, Arizona State University, and Miami Dade College have sent a letter to more than 1,200 of their colleagues, urging them to join an effort to reform immigration laws and writing that current policies frustrate colleges’ ability to educate and to innovate.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
It is a question posed by a tenured Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) professor, who has not only been maligned and dissociated by the Academic Senate and the university itself, but continues to ruffle feathers: why would any group, particularly whites, want to give up their political power?
Read more in the Long Beach Post.