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The WSJ/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking was developed and executed in collaboration with our research partners College Pulse and Statista. The ranking scores colleges based on the following components. The weight each component is given in the ranking is indicated as a percentage. Throughout, we use the latest data available for […]
A Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts first-year writing seminar formerly titled, “Have You Eaten Yet?: QTBIPOC [Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color] Care,” has been repackaged after media coverage in late August. The seminar is now called “Care and Marginalization” and no longer uses the term “fatness” in its updated course description. […]
Florida’s public universities may soon allow a new alternative college entrance exam designed to “reconnect knowledge and virtue by providing meaningful assessments and connections to seekers of truth, goodness, and beauty.” If approved by its Board of Governors on Friday, the State University System of Florida will be the first state public university system to allow scores from the […]
Among the 10 Trinity College faculty members who have been hired to new tenure-track appointments this year are three Trinity alumni and four assistant professors who have previously been on the Trinity faculty in other roles. Sonia Cardenas, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs, said, “This faculty cohort is particularly experienced […]
“They learned that they were most effective at slowing down democracy and throwing sand in the gears of the political machine,” Shepherd told me. “That’s what we’ve seen in their careers, and it’s certainly what they were doing when they were in college.” The following has been edited for clarity. Ian Ward: Why is the […]
A campus police officer helped thwart a white gunman’s plan to “wreak murderous havoc” at Florida’s first historically Black university, the school’s president said on Monday, two days after the shooter killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville. The shooter, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, had parked on campus and was donning […]
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The Justice Department announced today a settlement agreement with Highland Community College (HCC) in Kansas to resolve the department’s investigation into allegations that Black students, primarily student-athletes, living on HCC’s main campus experienced discriminatory treatment in many aspects of campus life, including discipline, housing and interactions with campus security officers. The complaints alleged that Black […]
JACKSONVILLE – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday pledged US$1 million (S$1.36 million) to increase security at a historically Black college in Jacksonville that a white gunman tried to enter before shooting and killing three Black people at a Dollar General store. Authorities said the attack on Saturday was racially motivated. The shooter, 21-year-old Ryan […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at a prayer vigil, a day after a white man armed with a high-powered rifle and a handgun killed three Black people at a Dollar General store before shooting himself in what local law enforcement described as a racially motivated crime, in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. August 27, 2023. REUTERS/Malcom