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OPINION: Following the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action, we must find new remedies to promote educational equity

The Hechinger Report

Some institutions have even preemptively eliminated race-based scholarships and special academic programs for historically marginalized groups, fearing litigation. Widespread improvements in educational equity and economic mobility will happen only when minority-serving and broad-access institutions receive our respect and support.

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OPINION: Post-affirmative action, let’s look past our obsession with the Ivy Leagues and other elite schools

The Hechinger Report

Supreme Court’s decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions last June fueled heated debates and raised questions about the distribution of opportunities to attend highly selective education institutions. Tweaking the composition of the student body at only 12 elite institutions was never going to fix our diversity problem.

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OPINION: Higher education must take the lead on climate change, beginning on our own campuses

The Hechinger Report

As higher education leaders in California and Louisiana, we see the impacts of the changing climate across the communities we serve. As these events demonstrate, our students, faculty, staff and institutions are at severe and sustained risk from the increasingly destabilized climate.

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OPINION: ‘Institutions must be held accountable for how they are failing Black academics — and Black women academics in particular’

The Hechinger Report

In turn, companies, organizations and institutions have flooded the internet with statements of solidarity, anti-racism rhetoric, and discussions of racial bias and systemic oppression. higher education continues to ignore — and highlight the need for institutional change that goes far beyond solidarity statements and diversity declarations.

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The Political Right Is Slamming the Door on College Access

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The steepest declines are at public two-year and four-year institutions, the more-affordable options that serve larger percentages of poor, working-class and minority students. Meanwhile, elite colleges that serve wealthier families are actually seeing a boost. But not all types of students are opting out of college.

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OPINION: Minority-serving institutions are opening minds and doors to new inventions and new patents

The Hechinger Report

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are opening their doors to a new academic year against a national backdrop of ongoing pandemic challenges, the legacy of racial injustice and rising socioeconomic inequality. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Federal money to ease collegians’ coronavirus costs may shortchange some who need it most

The Hechinger Report

Colleges and universities that primarily serve minority students may fare worse than others in receiving aid from the CARES Act, the government’s recent coronavirus stimulus package. Related: As more Latinos go to college, schools vie to become Hispanic-Serving Institutions. WASHINGTON, D.C.