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Legacy Admissions Hit Historic Low as More States Ban Practice at U.S. Colleges

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Several more states are expected to introduce similar legislation in 2025. More than half of colleges that admit 25% or fewer applicants still provide advantages to alumni children. The report indicates that 86% of colleges that ended legacy consideration did so voluntarily, while 14% were required by state legislation.

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Study: Latino Students Use Practical Strategies to Finance College Education

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The report, "How Latinos Pay for College: 2025 National Trends," builds on two decades of research and reveals that while Latino students demonstrate high financial need, they are employing effective cost-saving measures to make higher education affordable.

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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

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The program also provides access to mentors for early career faculty and trains them in grant writing, op-ed writing, teaching, and how to achieve a better work-life balance. Applications for ELEVATE 2025 will open on November 15, 2024. How to achieve tenure and publishing assistance is also on the agenda.

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AccessLex Provides Update to Legal Education Data Deck in New Release

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AccessLex Institute has released its 2025 Legal Education Data Deck, providing comprehensive insights into the current state of legal education in the United States. Hispanic/Latine applicants and American Indian/Alaska Native applicants also faced significant barriers, with admission rates of 57% and 52% respectively.

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Fort Lewis College Names First Indigenous Presidential Finalist

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All of her personal and professional experiences created a presidential presence that stood out from an exceptional field of over 75 applicants," said Janet Lopez, chair of the FLC Board of Trustees. The college offers tuition waivers to qualified Native American students, a policy that dates back to a 1911 federal land grant agreement.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

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While there were over 85 outstanding applicants, Dr. Love was in a category of her own. 2022-2025, received funding of $541,879 from the National Science Foundation over three years. on a proposal preparing math and science teachers for middle school, resulting in a five-year NSF grant of $1,199,762. Loves Ph.D.

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Scholars at AABHE Conference Discuss Strategic Responses to Anti-DEI Legislation

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Our dean is telling the faculty to be creative and to come up with other ways to shape it or frame it so that theyre not using the trigger words, because the trigger words, whether we like it or not, is whats causing grants to either be denied, applications to be pushed back and funding to not be released, the attendee said.