Articles tagged: "Harvard"

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Are MBAs Passe?

If they are collateral damage from the Trump recovery, universities will have another reason to hate the president.

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Yale Law Professors Cancel Classes over Kavanaugh

Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh graduated from Yale University in 1990, but, his nomination by President Donald Trump has led to widespread liberal outcry in the media, on college campuses, on social media platforms such as Twitter, and protests.

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Ivy Leagues vs. Students For Fair Admissions

The entire Ivy League has declared its brotherhood with Harvard as it battles Asian-Americans alleging discrimination, and it sounds suspiciously as though they are trying to cloak their opposition to Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) as a defense of diversity.

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AAUP Supports Race-Based Admissions At Harvard

In filing an amicus, or friend of the court, brief, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) may be putting itself on the opposite side of Asian-Americans alleging discrimination at Harvard.

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Does Harvard Discriminate Against Asians?

Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), which is arguing in a lawsuit that it does, are pointing to findings from Harvard’s own Office of Institutional Research (OIR) which calculate that based on grades alone, Asian-Americans could make up nearly half the student body at the Ivy League institution.