JoAnne A. Epps, who was appointed in April, was taken to a hospital after she became ill at a memorial service on the university’s campus in Philadelphia.
Software identified at-risk students, who were given extra help. Also, New London, Conn., hasn’t forgotten the traitor Benedict Arnold, 242 years later.
Challenges to race-conscious policies are surging in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, beginning with a new lawsuit against West Point. The Supreme Court’s June decision striking down race-conscious admissions may have been the most significant higher ed case in years, providing a concrete answer to questions that have spurred dozens of court cases since the 1990s. But it hardly put an end to the legal fight over affirmative action. In fact, the outcome has unleashed a stream of new challenges to colleges’ race-conscious policies and revived cases that had been dismissed or lost before the ruling was handed down.