At some point in time, almost every American high school senior is involved in a conversation which starts with the following question: "So, are you planning to go to college?" Answering this question in the...
Higher Education
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Affirmative action programs originated during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. What began as a drive to ensure that minorities were not discriminated against in the hiring process quickly took on a more active...
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In 1972, a small, seemingly harmless paragraph was included in a piece of legislation known as the “Education Amendments of 1972.” This paragraph simply prohibited education opportunity discrimination based on a...
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Imagine that it is your first year of college. You’re eager to learn, enthusiastic about your new friends, and devoted to your new professor. Everything is moving along beautifully, until one day your beloved...
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If you are like many American college students, you have probably waited anxiously with great fear and trepidation for the letter. When it finally arrives, you grab it from the mail stack, rip it with...