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If American colleges were to halt race-based admissions decisions, they could still ensure a racially diverse student body if they started giving preference to lower-income students while also urging more minorities to apply, a new analysis suggests. The change would be expensive, however.
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Federal authorities said Monday that a Houston man was charged with attempting to bomb a statue in that city honoring a Confederate military figure. The charges, filed Sunday and made public Monday, come as officials across the country have grappled with how to handle their Confederate monuments, an issue that has taken on a newfound urgency since violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, this month.
At the end of July, The New York Times published a report about the latest Department of Justice investigation. The report read like a work of satire: Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be looking into racial discrimination toward white college applicants as a result of affirmative action policies.
It would not be surprising if Jeff Sessions wants to get rid of affirmative action in college admissions for good. This is the same attorney general who is bent on taking us back to the drug war of the 1980s, who doesn't prioritize curbing police brutality or voter suppression, and who holds the view that existing law doesn't protect gay workers from employment discrimination.
In 2016 the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of affirmative action at the University of Texas-Austin , further validating the use of race in admissions policies around the country. The efforts of opponents of affirmative action were temporarily stymied, but they have reemerged with a lawsuit against Harvard University claiming the school discriminates against Asian-Americans, The New York Times reported.
The Justice Department 's civil rights division is poised to examine and potentially litigate race-based affirmative action admissions policies at U.S. colleges and universities, the Details of the Trump administration's directive are scarce, but the Times reported that the department's political appointees could lead the project. The Trump administration has made no public statement on the report.
On St. Patrick's Day, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tweeted a photo of himself and Republican Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, both in green ties, sitting down to sign a resolution headed for President Donald Trump's desk. "This legislation allows states to have drug testing to receive federal unemployment benefits," Ryan tweeted.
President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey this week was one thing. Then came a series of tweets and public statements that raised troubling questions about the real motives for Comey's ouster.
A professional association on Thursday announced a new initiative aimed at strengthening the Senior Executive Service through cultivating federal employees with leadership potential starting earlier in their careers. The Senior Executives Association's "leadership pipeline" effort will identify promising young government employees and connect them with mentors and leadership training programs and certifications.
The concept of a "born leader" seems so fanciful and clichA d that it belongs on the cover of a bad business book, or in a quote from a glib cable news commentator. But it turns out that born leaders are real, and researchers have discovered a key variable that isn't genes, parents, or peers.
He's startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria. "It's a different kind of a presidency," Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hour-long conversation as he approached Saturday's key presidential benchmark.
He's startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria. "It's a different kind of a presidency," Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hour-long conversation as he approached Saturday's key presidential benchmark.
He's startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria. "It's a different kind of a presidency," Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hour-long conversation as he approached Saturday's key presidential benchmark.
He's startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria. "It's a different kind of a presidency," Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hourlong conversation as he approached Saturday's key presidential benchmark.
He's startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria. "It's a different kind of a presidency," Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hourlong conversation as he approached Saturday's key presidential benchmark.
In this April 5, 2017, photo, University of Texas at Austin President Gregory Fenves, left, and Maurie McInnis, UT Executive Vice President and Provost, get up from their chairs at the Capitol after testifying on Senate Bill 2119 in Austin, Texas. less In this April 5, 2017, photo, University of Texas at Austin President Gregory Fenves, left, and Maurie McInnis, UT Executive Vice President and Provost, get up from their chairs at the Capitol after testifying ... more AUSTIN, Texas - Socked by sagging energy prices, Texas lawmakers have less than two months to strike a deal on an austere budget that threatens cuts to everything from higher education to Medicaid.
A petition asking for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to be deemed a sanctuary institution for undocumented students is gathering numerous supporters and students hope officials will listen.
After 1971's ratification of the 26th Amendment , which lowered the voting age to 18, voter turnout in this country dropped from 60.84 percent in 1968 to 55.21 percent in 1972. In subsequent years the percentage of Americans who cast a ballot has fluctuated, but never reached levels before the 26th Amendment.
For some people, the attack on police officers by a gunman in Dallas this summer brought to mind another attack by a sniper in Austin 50 years ago - on Aug. 1, 1966. That's when student Charles Whitman stuck his rifle over the edge of the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin and started shooting.