A conservative state senator had warned schools days earlier to comply with the state’s anti-DEI law, as Republicans in Texas and nationwide target such programs.
Protests over the safety and learning conditions at Appalachian State University's Wey Hall continued into its second week as students gathered on Sanford Mall on Thursday, March 28.
Many local officials say they’ll do what’s right for students, but note that pushing the deadline back too far could have its own unintended consequences. The rocky rollout of a new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) had already forced almost a quarter of the nation’s states to bump back their local scholarship application deadlines.