Do you want fries with that education? The question is one that many professors fear is essentially coming to colleges, as higher-ed leaders adopt practices from businesses in an attempt to rethink their operations.
A joint brief by the seven other Ivies and nine private universities said that a ruling against Harvard’s admissions process would reverberate across academia.
Sixteen prestigious U.S. universities argued in a court filing that any prohibitions on considering race in admissions decisions would be an “extraordinary intrusion” by the federal government.
Chairman Harry Smith says state law prevents the UNC Board of Governors or the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees from taking action on the Silent Sam Confederate monument
While $20 million gifts for business or medical schools are common, they are rare for philosophy departments, where seven-figure gifts are generally considered exceptional.