Affirmative action gets first Supreme Court hearing since 2003
Abigail Fisher was one of the more than 17,000 high-school seniors from around the country who were rejected when they applied to the University of Texas in 2008.…
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Jerry Brown vetoes affirmative action-like bill
On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB 185, an affirmative action-like bill that would have allowed public universities to consider factors including race, gender and ethnicity in the…
Open-source advocates: Academia, industry must play nice
Compromise between the Ivory Tower and industry, IT experts say, is the future of open-source technologies in higher education.