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22 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
College Affirmative Action Threatened by US High Court Case
February 22, 2012, 7:37 AM ESTBy Greg Stohr and John Hechinger
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Colleges may soon have to overhaul decades-old efforts to promote racial diversity after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to reconsider the constitutionality of affirmative action in admissions.
In accepting...
22 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
U.S. Supreme Court to hear plea over college acknowledgment certain movement … – The Star-Ledger
A 2009 file photo of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. The nation's highest court today agreed to hear a challenge over affirmative action policies in regard to college admissions.WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is...
21 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
NEW YORK – One autumn morning in Buffalo, N.Y., a college student named Adeela Khan logged into her email and found a message announcing an upcoming Islamic conference in Toronto.
Khan clicked "forward," sent it to...
21 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
NEW YORK – One autumn morning in Buffalo, N.Y., a college student named Adeela Khan logged into her email and found a message announcing an upcoming Islamic conference in Toronto.
Khan clicked "forward," sent it to...
21 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
NYPD spied on Muslims all over Northeast US
Nearly 400 miles west of Manhattan, the New York Police Department descended on the City of Buffalo.
It was a rough Buffalo winter in January 2009 and three NYPD officers wanted to speak to local authorities. They wanted to know more about students at the University at Buffalo.
The...
20 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
OU, US universities to be given measure by US Department of Education
A “College Scorecard” released by the White House to help prospective students choose educational institutions likely will have little effect on OU’s crop of incoming students, the Prospective Student Services director said.
After being introduced by the U.S. Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency...
20 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
Pac-12 leads BracketBusters weekend’s winners
Winners
Pac-12 Conference: Desperately trying to avoid going without an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, the league got a lift from losses by Long Beach State and Davidson, which missed chances to strengthen their at-large candidacies against Creighton and Wichita...
19 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
Report reveals how New York military monitored Muslim students in northeast US – Al
Asked about the monitoring, police spokesman Paul Browne provided a list of 12 people arrested or convicted on terrorism charges in the United States and abroad who had once been members of Muslim student associations, which the NYPD referred to as MSAs. Jesse Morton, who this month pleaded guilty...
18 Feb, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
NYPD monitored Muslim college students opposite a Northeastern US
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US College Students Customize Unique Majors
One of the first questions an American college student often gets is, “What are you majoring in?” Meaning, what academic subject are you spending most of your time studying?
A typical answer would be “chemistry,” “pre-law,” “journalism,” “sociology,” or “English.”
What is not typical is an answer such as “Keepin’ It Real”...
