Today's Clips (6/30/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Wingate administrator believes universities will still have some legal standing to factor in a student’s background through admissions essays. 

SCOTUS has issued a landmark decision limiting the use of race in college admissions at public universities, in a case centered at UNC Chapel Hill.

The college admissions process can be maddeningly opaque.

Scientists suss out how squash bug young locate a critical bacterium

IN OTHER NEWS

The end of affirmative action will only cause students and parents to get even more creative about gaming college admissions.

The Supreme Court’s ruling reflected the school’s clear discrimination against Asian applicants.

“I think this will alter my entire application process,” one student said. The Supreme Court left open the possibility that colleges could consider discussions of race in personal essays.

Even as Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared to agree over the policy’s aim, they harshly criticized each other’s conclusions on what to do.

President Biden said he continued to believe in the need for diversity in higher education, and suggested it might be achieved in other ways.

The Justices revive the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment in barring discrimination by race at Harvard and the University of North Carolina,

The Wall Street Journal spent time on campuses around the country Thursday after the Supreme Court found it unconstitutional to consider race in university admissions.

‘Potentially distinct’ military interests allow academies to still use race-conscious admissions, court says.

Colleges across the country will be forced to stop considering race in admissions under Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling, ending affirmative action policies that date back decades

One House Democrat labeled the court’s conservatives “Justice ‘Harlan Crow’ Thomas and five other MAGAs.”

A professor and two students at the University of Waterloo were treated for their injuries. A 24-year-old student was charged with assault.

TRADES

Artificial intelligence powered by ChatGPT is helping Harvard’s beginner computer science students understand and improve their work creating and fixing code. The rapid march of AI into classrooms has reached Harvard University’s flagship computer science course, which is now using ChatGPT as a way of freeing up teaching assistants to spend more quality time with students.

With the end of race-conscious admissions, colleges confront new challenges. How will they respond?

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