Education officials in some states are attempting to discriminate against U.S.-born students whose parents are in this country illegally.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-tuition-immigrants-parents-20121123,0,708251.story
An African American police officer and his family said they fled their upscale Orange County community after rocks were thrown through their windows, their tires were slashed and racial taunts were shouted by passing motorists. Last month, someone shot corrosive acid pellets into his garage, which damaged his car.
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The next House of Representatives will have a dozen members of Asian American and Pacific Islander descent, the largest such caucus in history.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-asians-congress-20121120,0,3367684.story
Thousands of illegal immigrants living in Massachusetts can qualify for state resident tuition rates at state colleges, under a policy laid out on Monday by Gov. Deval Patrick — another shift in the fast-changing mosaic of states’ policies toward that population.
Gov. Deval L. Patrick on Monday sent a letter to the state’s Board of Higher Education directing it to extend in-state tuition rates to illegal-immigrant students who obtain work permits through the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/mass-governor-tells-colleges-to-offer-in-state-tuition-to-illegal-immigrants?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
As many of you know, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday declared Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions to be unconstitutional.
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FOR their club’s big debut this semester, the cadets at the United States Air Force Academy hammered out talking points, printed fliers and hung their logo, a rainbow-colored globe, in their booth in Arnold Hall. Then they held their breath.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/fashion/military-academies-adjusting-to-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell.html?ref=education
Worries about the quality of undergraduate education tend to be magnified by concerns about the increasing diversity of students entering college.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Diversity-Bolsters/135858/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
“It breaks my heart to think how many people would not have chosen to keep that precious angel.” — Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaking about abortion and Down syndrome at the 2012 National Convention.
“I highly approve of (Mitt) Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.” — Ann Coulter, tweeting about the
Data from Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools with openings for head coaches showed decreases from 2011 in the percentages of people of color being interviewed and on search committees for women’s college basketball vacancies.
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