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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

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The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes less than a year after the U.S.

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Testy Appointed to Lead the Association of American Law Schools

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Testy served as Dean and Professor of Law at University of Washington School of Law from 2009 to 2017 and at Seattle University School of Law from 2005 to 2009. She began her career as a law professor at the University of Puget Sound in 1992, which then became Seattle University.

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Tallahassee Community College Earns Highest Distinction from Achieving the Dream

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Tallahassee Community College (TCC) recently received high honors from Achieving the Dream , an organization and network founded to close achievement gaps and accelerate student success nationwide by guiding institutional change, influencing public policy, generating knowledge, and engaging the public. 19-22, in Orlando, Florida.

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Tallahassee Community College Receives Recognition from Achieving the Dream

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Tallahassee Community College (TCC) recently received recognition from Achieving the Dream , an organization and network founded to close achievement gaps and accelerate student success nationwide by guiding institutional change, influencing public policy, generating knowledge, and engaging the public. 19-22, in Orlando, Florida.

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Fielding Graduate University Mourns Educational Leader

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His reputation caught the attention of Dr. Charles McClintock who brought him to Fielding in 2009 as an external doctoral program reviewer. The annual award recognizes an individual for a lifetime of achievements devoted to efforts that support educational access and success.

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Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper

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The dynamic education leader, who also made Diverse ’s “25 To Watch” list in 2009, has Washington insiders tuned into the issues that impact college access, minority students, and success in postsecondary education. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy.

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Hospital Honors Trailblazing Surgeon With Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Outpatient Center

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He also performed the world’s first successful implantation of an automatic heart defibrillator in 1980; founded the annual Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund for minority medical students in 2009. He served as associate dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. who was a pastor at his family’s church.