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     'I can't focus on anything but rage.' Pro-Palestinian protests roil elite Pomona College

     LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 weeks ago

     Claremont Colleges students and faculty rallied on campus less than a week after 19 students were...

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     What are legacy admissions — and do colleges need them?

     CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 7 months ago

     Legacy college admission is an advantage given at birth, in which the children of a school’s alumni...

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     California ended affirmative action in the ’90s but retains a diverse student body

     NBC News via Yahoo News· 10 months ago

     LOS ANGELES — In California, where affirmative action in admissions has been banned in public...

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     A lot of what you've heard about affirmative action is wrong

     LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months ago

     A student walks through a passageway on UCLA campus. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) The U.S....

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     California banned affirmative action in 1996. Inside the UC struggle for diversity

     LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     As the U.S. Supreme Court opens oral arguments Monday on whether to strike down affirmative action,...

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     Harvard's big dumb bet on legacy admissions

     Business Insider via Yahoo News· 7 months ago

     The explosion of endowments at elite colleges has allowed many forward-looking schools to drop their legacy admissions preference with no signs of...

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     US colleges game out a possible end to race-conscious student admissions

     Reuters via Yahoo News· 11 months ago

     In 1998, the year a voter-approved measure barring the use of race-conscious admissions policies for...

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     Are legacy admissions on the way out?

     The Hill via Yahoo News· 8 months ago

     Public and legislative opinion have turned sharply against legacy admissions, a long-standing policy that gives children of alumni and donors an edge in...

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     California effort to crack down on legacy and donor admissions could hit USC, Stanford

     LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months ago

     A new California legislative effort to ban state financial aid to colleges and universities that...

10. • 20 Pomona College protesters arrested after storming, occupying president's office

      LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 weeks ago

      The protest started over the college's dismantling of a piece of student-erected pro-Palestinian protest art on campus, which had been standing since March 28.