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☆ Should the SAT still matter after all these years? Why some colleges are bringing it back
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

The longest-enduring standardized college admissions test in the nation, the SAT has faced decades of controversy over bias and criticism for reducing aspiring college students to a test score. Discrepancies with standardized testing appear to be symptomatic of the inequality endemic to the education system. In 2005, the College Board added an 800-point writing section to the exam alongside its math and verbal reasoning sections. In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, a sign is seen at the entrance to a hall for a college test preparation class in Bethesda, Md. Alex Brandon/APThe College Board told CNN it has also done away with its esoteric vocabulary in the past decade.

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☆ AI has racist tendencies. Scientists and founders are trying to fix it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Monica Melton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The police had used a facial-recognition AI program that identified her as the suspect based on an old mugshot. AdvertisementThe Detroit Police Department said that it restricts the use of the facial-recognition AI program to violent crimes and that matches it makes are just investigation leads. AdvertisementThe study also found that in a hypothetical murder trial, the AI models were more likely to propose the death penalty for an AAE speaker. A novel proposalOne reason for these failings is that the people and companies building AI aren't representative of the world that AI models are supposed to encapsulate. Bardlavens leads a team that aims to ensure equity is considered and baked into Adobe AI tools.

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☆ I'm a low-income high school student. I worry colleges reinstating the SAT requirement will ruin my admissions chances.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Marium Zahra | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

As a low-income minority student, I can't afford expensive resources like test prep and tutoring. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Plus, my high school does not have the money to pay for test prep or afford high-caliber resources. I fear that my inability to afford prep will make my college applications look sub-par compared to my higher-income counterparts. For immigrant, low-income students like myself, it seems as if we always end up with the short end of the stick when it comes to our education and, more importantly, our futures.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Yale, Dartmouth

☆ Trump or Biden? The Stock Market Doesn’t Care.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Jeff Sommer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The markets assume that former President Donald J. Trump has an even chance of winning the November election. After trailing for months, President Biden has moved slightly ahead of Mr. Trump in the betting on Predictit, the longest-running commercial prediction market in the United States. On Betfair, a robust British prediction market that is officially closed to U.S. residents, Mr. Biden has moved within one percentage point of Mr. Trump. Polymarket, an offshore market that accepts only cryptocurrency, shows Mr. Trump slightly ahead. “The prediction markets right now are telling us that the presidential election is basically a tossup,” said Eric Zitzewitz, a Dartmouth economist.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, ”, Eric Zitzewitz, “ Organizations: Dartmouth Locations: United States

☆ Some top schools are bringing back ACT and SAT requirements — but most colleges are still test-optional. Here's what you need to know.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementYale and Brown made similar announcements, saying they conducted studies that found requiring testing allowed them to attract the most diverse student body. "The institutions we're currently talking about, they're requiring tests again and didn't necessarily want to ever stop requiring tests," Baker said. Its reason: requiring testing scores would help the school choose between many high school seniors with high GPAs. Even so, data has shown students have continued to take tests despite applying to schools with test-optional policies. AdvertisementMoving forward, Baker said it's important that if more schools choose to switch their testing policies, they consider the announcement's timing.

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☆ Green Bubble Stigma: Apple's Genius Marketing Trick to Make iPhones Cool
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

One thing that is definitely not "cool," it seems, is having a green text bubble. In the filing, it says people without Apple devices often feel a "social stigma, exclusion, and blame for 'breaking' chats where other participants own iPhones." "Brands that have a really well-established image, Apple's cool image, for instance, that they worked on to establish over the years — consumers really see that as a legitimate signal of their own coolness to themselves and other people." Consumers really care about using products and brands to express who they are to themselves and the world around them. And if you've ever watched "Ted Lasso" or anything else on Apple TV+, you've perhaps noticed iPhones and Apple products are ubiquitous.

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☆ 'Green Bubble Stigma' Shows Apple's Power to Create a Prestige Brand
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

☆ Dartmouth and Vanderbilt expand financial aid awards in an effort to eliminate student loans
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Amid arguably the worst year to apply for financial aid, some colleges are implementing new strategies to entice students wary of the high cost. Vanderbilt University announced it is expanding Opportunity Vanderbilt to include full-tuition scholarships to students of families with an annual income of $150,000 or less. Meanwhile, Dartmouth also said it is nearly doubling its current income threshold for a "zero parent contribution" for parents with an annual income of $125,000, up from $65,000. "As costs continue to escalate we think it's so important there is access," said Doug Christiansen, Vanderbilt's dean of admissions and financial aid. "I am concerned on a national level that we will have a portion that think they can't afford it," he said.

Persons: Dartmouth, Doug Christiansen, Christiansen Organizations: Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Finance, Harvard, Federal Student Aid

☆ After a Year of Turmoil, Harvard’s Applications Drop
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Anemona Hartocollis | Stephanie Saul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Applications to Harvard College were down this year, even as many other highly selective schools hit record highs. The drop suggests that a year of turmoil — which went into overdrive with a student letter that said Israel was “entirely responsible” for the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks — may have dented Harvard’s reputation and deterred some students from applying. Harvard’s announcement on Thursday evening came as all eight Ivy League schools sent out their notices of admission or rejection, known as Ivy Day. While Brown University also saw a drop in applications, applications rose at many other elite colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Columbia, M.I.T., Bowdoin, Amherst and the University of Virginia.

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☆ Ivy League admission decisions are coming on Ivy Day. Here's what to do if you've been accepted, rejected, or waitlisted.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Steve Gardner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The clock seems to tick a little louder as the Ivy League schools — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn, and Columbia — all prepare to announce their admissions decisions. Here's what you should do next if you've been accepted, rejected, or waitlisted. You gave everything you had to create a strong application, so it's OK if you need some time and space. The school orchestra and sports teams need the right talent in the right positions. Perhaps less obvious priorities are in place, such as adding rural students to balance the extra-urban students admitted last year.

Persons: Brown, you've Organizations: Service, Ivy League, — Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia Locations: Princeton, UPenn, Columbia

☆ The SAT Gave Me Hope - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Emi Nietfeld | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Many schools have embraced the test-optional rule under the assumption that it would bolster equity and diversity, since higher scores are correlated with privilege. Many low-income and minority students withheld scores that could have gotten them in, wrongly assuming that their scores were too low, according to an analysis by Dartmouth. I was one of the disadvantaged youths who are often failed by test-optional policies, striving to get into college while in foster care and homeless. What these conversations overlook is the hope these tests offer students who are in difficult situations. I will always feel tenderness toward the Scantron sheets that unlocked higher education and a better life.

Organizations: University of Texas, Austin, ACT, Dartmouth

☆ Boeing's top management team and board 'need to be completely rethought': Dartmouth's Paul Argenti
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBoeing's top management team and board 'need to be completely rethought': Dartmouth's Paul ArgentiPaul Argenti, professor of corporate communication at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Boeing's management shake-up, news of CEO Dave Calhoun stepping down at the end of the year, what's next for the company, and more.

Persons: Paul Argenti Paul Argenti, Dave Calhoun, what's Organizations: Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business

☆ Why the SAT Isn’t Racist - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

That’s three down: Last week, Brown University reinstated standardized testing as a part of its admissions requirements, following Yale and Dartmouth, which did the same earlier this year. For all that we have heard about how standardized tests propagate injustice, the decisions at these Ivy League schools are antiracism in action, and should serve as models for similar decisions across academia. Of course, for years, the leading idea has been precisely the opposite: that the proper antiracist approach is to stop using standardized tests in admissions. Many schools first suspended using them a few years back because their administration was too difficult during the peak of the Covid pandemic. All the way back in 2001, the University of California president Richard Atkinson was warmly and widely celebrated for eliminating the SAT from the schools’ admissions process.

Persons: Richard Atkinson, Sian Beilock Organizations: Brown University, Yale, Dartmouth, Ivy League, University of California

☆ The SAT is now digital for the first time. One test expert says the new format makes the test easier.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Kristina Puga | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The test is shorter, adaptive, and tests real-world skills. One test expert says it's easier than past versions but clarifies it's still not an easy test. The digital SAT has some content changesFor starters, the digital test will be shorter and adaptive. "There's even a digital calculator built into the testing application, in case you don't have a graphing calculator," Patel said. AdvertisementThe digital SAT is easier"The new question types are actually testing students in a much more real-world manner than the previous versions of the SAT," Patel said.

Persons: it's, —, Brown, Shaan Patel —, Patel, you'll Organizations: Service, Yale Locations: Dartmouth

☆ Dartmouth basketball’s union vote is just a small part of the campus organizing wave
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team achieved a significant milestone last week when they became the first college athletes to vote to join a union. And similar to the 13-2 margin vote in favor of the union at the Dartmouth basketball team last week, the unions are winning these votes overwhelmingly. Organizing athletes still uphill battleThe vote last week by the Dartmouth basketball team rightly got a lot of attention as the first group of college athletes to vote to join a union. Dartmouth basketball players don’t get a scholarship, and the college has announced it will seek to overturn the union vote, arguing that they are not employees. Haskins and Myrthil said they hope the victory of the union vote at Dartmouth will spark union votes on many other teams, including the big dollar programs.

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☆ Dartmouth men's basketball is the first college team to vote to unionize. But the fight over the future of college sports could just be beginning.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

By a vote of 13 to 2, the team voted to join the service employees union SEIU Local 560 — making them the first college athletes in US history to vote to join a labor union. Then, last month, the NLRB ruled that the Dartmouth players were employees of the school, clearing the way for the unionization vote. The Dartmouth vote also comes as the share of union members in the US reached a record low of just 10% in 2023. AdvertisementIn the short term, however, the impact of the Dartmouth vote could be limited. AdvertisementIf the NLRB's decision to recognize the Dartmouth players stands, it could establish a precedent that enables other teams to follow suit.

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☆ What Would Paying Student Athletes Look Like?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Joe Nocera | Ephrat Livni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Still, it was the latest example of the pressure the association is under to finally abandon “amateurism” — the N.C.A.A.’s long-held dogma that prevents college athletes from being paid. But that’s an ad hoc system, organized largely by supporters of the athletic department, that allows some athletes to bring in millions while others make nothing. It’s not the same as universities paying athletes they employ. The suit alleges that college athletes have been illegally deprived of any payment for having their names, images and likenesses used in promotional broadcasting that have earned millions for big athletic conferences like the Big Ten. remains stubbornly resistant to settling the antitrust cases against it, the prospect of paying billions in damages might finally bring the organization to the table.

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☆ Dartmouth's vote to unionize is 'a monumental moment for college athletics', says SBJ's Ben Portnoy
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDartmouth's vote to unionize is 'a monumental moment for college athletics', says SBJ's Ben PortnoyBen Portnoy, Sports Business Journal college sports reporter, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss news of Dartmouth men's basketball team voting to become the first-ever labor union for college athletes, potential ramifications of the unionization, what it means for college athletics going forward, and more.

Persons: SBJ's Ben Portnoy Ben Portnoy Organizations: Sports Business, Dartmouth men's

☆ Dartmouth men's basketball team votes 13-2 in favor of first labor union for college athletes
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Natalie Kainz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Romeo Myrthil #20 (C) of the Dartmouth Big Green watches as his team play against Columbia Lions in their NCAA men's basketball game on February 16, 2024 in New York City. The Dartmouth Men's Basketball team voted 13-2 in favor of becoming the first-ever labor union for college athletes on Tuesday afternoon. The vote could present a huge shakeup to the National Collegiate Athletics Association's (NCAA) model, which currently only allows college athletes to financially benefit from their role on teams through name, image and likeness. "Because Dartmouth has the right to control the work performed by the Dartmouth men's basketball team, and the players perform that work in exchange for compensation, I find that the petitioned-for basketball players are employees within the meaning of the [National Labor Relations] Act," Sacks said in a statement. This isn't the first time a college athletics team has made a bid to be recognized as employees.

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☆ ‘Scary and Daunting’: Dartmouth Players Detail How Union Plan Came Together
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Billy Witz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team congregated at the stately Hanover Inn near campus on a dreary, drizzly Tuesday and walked over to a small office building where they smiled for a group photo. Then they went up to a second-floor conference room and took a vote that had been six months — or rather, many years — in the making. When the yellow sheets of paper were tallied and certified about an hour later, the basketball players had accomplished something no other college athletes had done. By a 13-2 vote, they had formed a union. “It’s definitely becoming more real,” Cade Haskins, a junior on the basketball team and a leader of the effort, said to about a dozen reporters after the vote.

Persons: “ It’s, ” Cade Haskins, ” Haskins Organizations: Dartmouth College men’s, Ivy League Locations: Hanover

☆ Dartmouth basketball team votes to join the first college athletics union
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team Tuesday became the first college athletes to vote to join a union, a significant milestone in the rapidly changing business for collegiate sports. The team members voted 13-2 in favor of the union, according to the National Labor Relations Board, which oversees union representation votes for private employers. The affirmative vote does not automatically mean that there will be a union for members of the the team. Dartmouth has already indicated it will appeal the decision by the NLRB to recognize the players as employees who are eligible to join a union. They are among the best paid union members in the country.

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☆ Brown University Will Reinstate Standardized Tests for Admission
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Stephanie Saul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The NewsBrown University will reinstate standardized testing requirements for admission, joining Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. In its announcement, Brown said that test results were a clear indicator of future success. Brown also echoed concerns expressed by both Dartmouth and Yale that suspending test requirements had the unintended effect of harming prospective students from low-income families. Last year, Brown said it had received more than 51,000 applications for its fall 2023 class. For every school that is bringing back standardized tests, a number of institutions are going in the opposite direction, as part of a growing test-optional movement in the United States.

Persons: Brown, “ Organizations: News Brown University, Yale, Dartmouth, ACT Locations: M.I.T, Providence, R.I, United States

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — The Dartmouth men's basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for college athletes and another attack on the NCAA's deteriorating amateur business model. "Today is a big day for our team," players Cade Haskins and Romeo Myrthil said in a statement. That could delay negotiations over a collective bargaining agreement until long after the current members of the basketball team have graduated. “In this isolated circumstance, however, the students on the men’s basketball team are not in any way employed by Dartmouth,” the school said. A college athletes union would be unprecedented in American sports.

Persons: Cade Haskins, Romeo Myrthil, —, “, ”, ” Haskins, Myrthil, Haskins, ” Myrthil, ” Mary Kay Henry, ” “, Jimmy Golen Organizations: Dartmouth, National Labor Relations Board, Service Employees International Union Local, SEIU, Ivy League, NCAA, NLRB, Big Green, Northwestern football, Wildcats, Big, Ivy League Players Association, Harvard, The Associated Press, AP Locations: HANOVER, N.H, Alabama, Michigan, Dartmouth

☆ Dartmouth, Northwestern, Rice and Vanderbilt settle financial aid lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Four more private universities have agreed to settle a lawsuit which alleged they violated antitrust laws in determining financial aid amounts for admitted students, according to court documents filed Friday. Dartmouth College, and Rice, Vanderbilt and Northwestern universities agreed to pay a total of $166 million to settle claims filed in a 2022 class action lawsuit alleging the schools colluded on the amount of financial aid awarded to students, while favoring applicants from wealthier families. In 2022, the University of Chicago agreed to settle for $13.5 million. “Nearly 15% of this year’s first-year class is attending Dartmouth without responsibility for paying tuition, housing, meals and many other fees, and more than half of the class receives some form of financial aid. Meanwhile, Dartmouth, Rice, Vanderbilt and Northwestern’s settlements range from $33.75 million to $55 million each.

Persons: Brown, Emory, ”, “, Robert Gilbert Organizations: New, New York CNN, Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt, Yale, University of Chicago, CNN, University, Dartmouth, ” Rice University Locations: New York, Rice, Northwestern, Columbia, Duke, Dartmouth

BOSTON (AP) — The Dartmouth men’s basketball team has scheduled a March 5 election to determine whether the players will unionize – a step that would be unprecedented in American college sports. The National Labor Relations Board said the in-person election will take place on the school’s Hanover, New Hampshire, campus. That cleared the way for a union election. All 15 members of the team had previously signed a petition asking to be represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 560, which already represents some other Dartmouth staff. An NLRB spokeswoman said Dartmouth has until Feb. 20 to appeal the regional director’s finding.

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