Critics have claimed holistic admissions and affirmative action conceals illegal practices of racial quotas and as a result, Asian American applicants are being denied to maintain a range of other ethnic groups.
Under the new policy, athletes at UNC will be able to earn money for marketing their name, image, and likeness, also referred to as NIL, in groups of three or more, alongside UNC trademarks and logos like the Tar Heels logo and argyle uniforms.
Emmert did not propose a specific plan or idea of what the NCAA should look like going forward. Instead, he broadly characterized this moment of change swirling around the association as an opportunity to reposition its role over the next several decades.
Among the 39% of students who surveyed as food insecure, almost half were worried that they would run out of food before having money to buy more, according to EPCC survey data.
Nearly half of college Republicans support public schools teaching about institutional racism — and six in 10 don't think state legislatures should be able to stop it —according to a new Generation Lab/Axios poll.
Under the new rules, college athletes would be permitted to participate in name, image and likeness (NIL) activities that are "consistent with the law of the state where the school is located." Athletes may use professional service providers for their NIL activities.
There are nearly 1,300 colleges that owe money to the Department of Education as of February, according to the National Student Legal Defense Network's review of a series of documents it obtained over two years through Freedom of Information Act requests.
The 11 university presidents and chancellors who oversee the College Football Playoff authorized a continued evaluation of a proposed 12-team playoff that, if adopted, could still be another five years away.
So far, UW System universities have received 133,484 applications from new freshmen for fall 2021, about 29 percent higher than at the same point in 2020 and 33 percent higher than 2019.
The Biden administration said it is approving 18,000 loan forgiveness claims from former students of ITT Technical Institute, a chain that closed in 2016 after being dealt a series of sanctions by the Obama administration. The new loan discharges will clear more than $500 million in debt.
Public colleges and universities are facing criticism from consumer advocates for advertising high-cost private loans to students in nondegree programs.
