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☆ Education Department opens investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's policies on legacy admissions. An Education Department spokesperson confirmed its Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation at Harvard. Wesleyan President Michael Roth said a student's "legacy status" has played a negligible role in admissions, but would now be eliminated entirely. Legacy policies have been called into question after last month's Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action and any consideration of race in college admissions. NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said he commended the Education Department for taking steps to ensure the higher education system "works for every American, not just a privileged few."

Persons: Jane Sujen Bock, Michael Roth, Derrick Johnson, Brown Organizations: U.S . Department of Education, Harvard, Civil Rights, discriminates, Education Department, Coalition, Wesleyan University, Wesleyan, Amherst College, Carnegie Melon University, Johns Hopkins University, NAACP, Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, University of Chicago, Athletic Locations: Boston, New England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland

☆ Climate change role in July heatwaves 'overwhelming', scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( David Stanway | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Guglielmo... Read moreSINGAPORE, July 25 (Reuters) - Human-induced climate change has played an "absolutely overwhelming" role in the extreme heatwaves that have swept across North America, Europe and China this month, according to an assessment by scientists published on Tuesday. Without human-induced climate change, the events this month would have been "extremely rare", according to a study by World Weather Attribution, a global team of scientists that examines the role played by climate change in extreme weather. "European and North American temperatures would have been virtually impossible without the effects of climate change," said Izidine Pinto of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, one of the study's authors, during a briefing with journalists. They also drove up the North American heatwave by 2C and the one in China by 1C. "The events we have looked at are not rare in today's climate," said Friederike Otto, a scientist with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change in London, speaking at the briefing.

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☆ Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry Into Harvard’s Legacy Admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Michael D. Shear | More About Michael D. Shear | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Education Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s preferences for the relatives of alumni and donors when making admissions decisions, according to lawyers for several groups that claim the practices are discriminatory. “The U.S. Department of Education has notified Lawyers for Civil Rights that it has formally launched the federal civil rights investigation requested,” the legal group said in a statement. The inquiry comes after a formal complaint that three groups filed after the Supreme Court’s decision last month on the use of affirmative action by colleges and universities that severely limit race-conscious admissions. Lawyers for the groups — Chica Project, ACEDONE and the Greater Boston Latino Network — argued that Harvard’s practice of extending preferences to so-called legacy admissions illegally discriminated against Black, Hispanic and Asian applicants in favor of wealthy students who were less qualified.

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The department's Office for Civil Rights opened the probe following a complaint filed earlier this month by three civil rights groups, who argued that Harvard's preference for "legacy" undergraduate applicants overwhelmingly benefits white students, in violation of a federal civil rights law. Those statistics were calculated from Harvard admissions data that became public as a result of the case that the Supreme Court decided in June. The Education Department through a spokesperson confirmed it had an open investigation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars race discrimination for programs receiving federal funds. "Simply put, Harvard is on the wrong side of history," said Oren Sellstrom, the litigation director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, the Boston-based group representing the civil rights groups who prompted the Education Department investigation. Sellstrom spoke at a Tuesday press conference regarding the federal probe, along with representatives for two of the Boston-area civil rights groups represented in the complaint.

Persons: Nicole Rura, Oren Sellstrom, Sellstrom, Zaida Ismatul Oliva, Edward Blum, Julia Harte, Nick Macfie, Daniel Wallis Organizations: U.S . Department of Education, Harvard, Civil Rights, Harvard College, University of North, Harvard University, Supreme, Education Department, Ivy League, Department, Civil, Wesleyan University, University of Minnesota's, University of Minnesota's Twin Cities, Fair Admissions, NAACP, Mexican American Legal Defense, Thomson Locations: University of North Carolina, Cambridge , Massachusetts, University of Minnesota's Twin, Boston

☆ Wildfires bring death and destruction to Mediterranean
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Fedja Grulovic And Lamine Chikhi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Without human-induced climate change, the events this month would have been "extremely rare", according to a study by World Weather Attribution, a global team of scientists that examines the role played by climate change in extreme weather. The heat, with temperatures topping 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), is well in excess of what usually attracts tourists who flock to southern European beaches. Neighbouring Algeria deployed some 8,000 firefighters to bring its deadly fires under control, authorities said. Malta, another major Mediterranean holiday destination, suffered a raft of power cuts across the country, affecting its largest hospital, after a week-long heatwave. "I have been through 65 summers in my lifetime... and what I am seeing now is not normal, we can no longer deny it, climate change is changing our lives," Mayor Giuseppe Sala said on social media.

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[1/5] An elderly woman leaves her house as a wildfire approaches, in Cascais, Portugal, July 25, 2023. REUTERS/Pedro NunesCASCAIS, Portugal, July 25 (Reuters) - Aided by local residents, hundreds of Portuguese firefighters scrambled on Tuesday to put out flames sweeping across a natural park near the popular holiday destination of Cascais, with strong winds complicating efforts to tackle the blaze. Backed by 189 vehicles, more than 600 firefighters were brought in after the fire erupted. "They (firefighters) do what they can," said Miguel Medeiros, a local resident who has helped fight the flames. EU data shows Portugal, which has so far escaped the recent heatwave causing deaths and destruction across southern Europe, is usually one of the bloc's worst-hit countries by wildfire.

Persons: Pedro Nunes CASCAIS, Ines Figueiredo, Cascais Carlos Carreiras, Miguel Medeiros, Catarina Demony, Miguel Pereira, Pedro Nunes, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Cascais, Portugal, Sintra, Lisbon, Europe, China, United States

☆ Heat waves in US and Europe would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, new report finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The “heat hell” searing parts of the United States and southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change, while climate change made China’s heat wave at least 50 times more likely, according to a rapid attribution analysis from the World Weather Attribution initiative. They found that “the role of climate change is absolutely overwhelming,” said Friederike Otto, a senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. The scientists found that climate change not only drastically increased the likelihood of these heat waves happening, but it is also making them hotter. Planet-heating pollution made Europe’s heat wave 2.5 degrees Celsius hotter, the North American heat wave 2 degrees Celsius hotter and China’s heatwave 1 degree Celsius hotter, according to the report. More than 61,000 people died of heat-related deaths during Europe’s record-breaking heat wave last year, according to a recent study.

Persons: Greg Baker, ”, Friederike Otto, Otto, Lefty Damian, ” Otto, Richard Allan Organizations: CNN, Northern Hemisphere, WWA, Getty, Grantham Institute, Climate, Environment, Imperial College London, Anadolu Agency, University of Reading Locations: United States, Europe, Death, Phoenix, China, Spain, Italy, Beijing, AFP, Mexico, Southern Europe, Greece's Rhodes, Greece

☆ China Dominates Solar. Does the U.S. Stand a Chance?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Supreme Court Bans Affirmative Action: What It Means for College Admissions The Supreme Court has banned colleges from using race as admission criteria, essentially ending affirmative action. California did the same 25 years ago. WSJ explains how what happened then can offer a roadmap for what could happen now. / Photo Illustration: Madeline Marshall

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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: AMC Entertainment, Mattel, Chevron, Spotify and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Knight-Swift Transportation — The freight transportation company's shares gained more than 1%. Knight-Swift reported adjusted earnings of 49 cents per share on revenue of $1.55 billion. Intuitive Surgical reported adjusted earnings of $1.42 per share on revenue of $1.76 billion. The fast-food chain reported mixed quarterly results, including adjusted earnings of $3.08 per share, beating analysts' predictions for $3.05 per share. Spotify — The music streaming company's shares dropped 5.5% after Spotify announced price increases for its premium subscription plans.

Persons: Oppenheimer, Riley, Eric Wold, Barbie, Mike Wirth, Chevron, Swift, Domino's, Becton Dickinson, Raymond James, Gilead, Estée Lauder, Piper Sandler, — CNBC's Hakyung Kim, Yun Li, Alex Harring, Samantha Subin Organizations: AMC, Mattel, Warner Bros, Chevron, Swift Transportation, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, Sirius XM, Deutsche Bank, Nasdaq, Spotify, Gilead Sciences Locations: New York, U.S, Gilead, China

☆ Behind the Scenes of College Admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Many of my articles have suggested that the colleges are not enrolling as many low- and middle-income students as they could. This morning, a team of economists released a detailed study of elite college enrollment. It’s based on admissions records that several colleges made available as well as tax returns that tracked students after college. The findings likely apply to many elite colleges, including the Ivy League, Duke, Stanford, Swarthmore and Williams. And the implications are particularly relevant when many colleges are revamping admissions policies in response to the Supreme Court’s rejection of affirmative action.

Persons: Williams Organizations: Ivy League, Duke, Stanford, Swarthmore

☆ Boys lie: How a 'Vanderpump Rules' 'Scandoval' caused this business to boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Earlier this year, when Bravo's "Vanderpump Rules" star Tom Sandoval cheated on his long-time girlfriend Ariana Madix with their co-star and real-life friend, Raquel Leviss, it reverberated from social media to front-page news. Madix summed up the cheating scandal, dubbed "Scandoval," well, stepping out days later on her way to tape the highly anticipated "Vanderpump Rules" reunion in a yellow hoodie and matching sweatpants from the clothing brand Boys Lie. A business born on InstagramTori Robinson and Leah O'Malley, co-founders of Los Angeles-based Boys Lie. Most people, particularly millennials and Gen Zers, have spent money they weren't originally planning to on products they saw in their social media feeds, several studies show. What's next for Boys Lie

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☆ 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' box office debut sparks hope that cinema is back
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

That gave the pink-drenched film the largest opening weekend of 2023 so far and the biggest-ever debut for a female director. Timothy Richards, chief executive of Vue International, Europe’s largest privately owned movie theater operator, said in a statement Sunday that it had seen its biggest weekend in four years for ticket sales. AMC (AMC), the world’s largest movie theater chain, said last week that 60,000 people had bought tickets see both films on the same day. Cineworld, the world’s second-biggest movie theater chain and owner of Regal Cinemas, filed for bankruptcy in September after posting a total $3.3 billion loss over 2020 and 2021. So far, Cineworld has shuttered 51 of its Regal movie theaters in the US.

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The study — by Opportunity Insights, a group of economists based at Harvard who study inequality — quantifies for the first time the extent to which being very rich is its own qualification in selective college admissions. The result is the clearest picture yet of how America’s elite colleges perpetuate the intergenerational transfer of wealth and opportunity. Less than 1 percent of American college students attend the 12 elite colleges. For the several elite colleges that also shared internal admissions data, they could see other aspects of students’ applications between 2001 and 2015, including how admissions offices rated them. Share of admitted students who were recruited athletes at selected elite colleges Recruited athletes at elite colleges were much more likely to come from the highest-earning households.

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☆ Biden will create a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 murder was a catalyst for the civil-rights movement, on what would have been his 82nd birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

President Joe Biden will create a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. Till's murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The monument locations will consist of a site in Chicago and two sites in rural Mississippi. Bryant and Milam then tortured and lynched the teenager before throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River. In March 2022, Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which made lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in US history.

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☆ Turo, the ‘Airbnb for Cars’, Angers Rental Car Companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Madeline Marshall Organizations: College Locations: California

☆ The Case for Legacy Admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( James Hankins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Colleges vow to keep race a factor in admissions. Images: AP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyIn my 38 years teaching at Harvard, I have only twice met members of Harvard’s governing boards, both at dinners. It turned out to be a conversational gambit allowing him to let slip that his ancestors had come over on the Mayflower. That was rattling enough for a young professor, but what surprised me even more was his follow-up remark. He confessed sadly that his son’s generation would be the first in his family not to serve Mother Harvard.

Persons: Mark Kelly, hadn’t Organizations: Getty, Harvard, Mother Harvard, Harvard College

☆ Wesleyan University ends legacy admissions after Supreme Court decision on affirmative action
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

More Americans disagree with legacy admissionsToday, fewer Americans agree with legacy admissions. "This preferential treatment overwhelmingly goes to white applicants and harms efforts to diversify color," added Michael Kippins, litigation fellow at Lawyers for Civil Rights. The NAACP called on more than 1,600 U.S. public and private colleges and universities to commit to increasing the representation of historically underrepresented students and end the practice of legacy admissions. The reality is we've reached a pretty good consensus on the use of identity in college admissions. Legacy admissions 'could be deemed unconstitutional'Since the practice of legacy admissions has indirect racial implications, these challenges may have legal merit, according to Jeanine Conley Daves, an attorney at New York-based firm Littler.

Persons: Wesleyan University Joanne Rathe, Ivan Espinoza, Madrigal, Michael Kippins, Ivory Toldson, Alvin Tillery, Don Harris, Harris, John Roberts, Jeanine Conley Daves Organizations: Wesleyan University, Boston Globe, Harvard University, Civil Rights, Pew Research, Harvard, NAACP, Northwestern University's Center, Diversity, Diversity and Democracy, Supreme, Temple University School of Law Locations: Massachusetts, New York

☆ Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Where Paranoia Meets Legacy Admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It feels dangerous to write about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: In the lag time between when I put the finishing touches on this and when it becomes publicly available, I could be a conspiracy theory or two behind. He’s a crank who cranks out whoppers the way Taylor Swift disgorges perfect pop songs. Kennedy is where paranoia meets legacy admissions. It’s an exaggeration of inequities and injustices that really do exist, and it simplifies a maddeningly complex world. Ranting about George Soros or Anthony Fauci feels a whole lot better than raging at the vicissitudes of fate.

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☆ Wesleyan University Ends Legacy Admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Vimal Patel | More About Vimal Patel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Why It Matters: Opposition to legacy admissions has grown. After the Supreme Court decision, legacy admissions came under heavy attack because the practice tends to favor white, wealthy applicants over Black, Hispanic, Asian American and Native American students. Polls also show that the public does not support legacy admissions. Some highly selective universities and colleges have dropped legacy admissions, including Amherst, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon and M.I.T. The future of legacy admissions on campuses is uncertain.

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☆ Wesleyan University is getting rid of legacy admissions. The school's president called the controversial practice 'embarrassing' and an 'unearned privilege.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Wesleyan University has ended legacy admissions, the practice of favoring applicants related to alumni. The university's president told The New York Times the practice is "embarrassing" and an "unearned privilege." The end of legacy admissions at Wesleyan comes after the Supreme Court's decision last month to end affirmative action, the practice of considering an applicant's race in college admissions. Meanwhile, donor-related applicants were almost seven times more likely to be admitted, whereas legacy applicants were nearly six times more likely, Insider reported. However, a Pew Research Center study showed 75% of participants disapproved of legacy admissions.

Persons: Michael Roth, Roth, Johns Hopkins Organizations: Wesleyan University, New York Times, Service, Wesleyan, MIT, Harvard University, Pew Research Locations: Wall, Silicon, California

☆ A Texas town is trying to solve the US physician shortage with 'homegrown' clinicians — a possible answer to the primary-care drought plaguing 100 million Americans
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Natalie Rahhal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

El Paso is among the 95% of Texas counties that have some shortage of primary-care physicians. The hope is they will stay and practice medicine in El Paso after medical school and residency. El Paso County, which includes the city of the same name, is among the 95% of Texas counties that have a shortage of primary-care physicians. The idea, he added, is that those participants will have a higher likelihood of staying after medical school and residency. Makena Piñon is one of five El Paso high school seniors accepted into MedFuture's first cohort.

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☆ Affirmative Action Bred Hypocrisy and Victimhood
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Sarah Lawrence College takes swipe at the Supreme Court, inviting students to write their application essay about the court's ruling that tossed affirmative action
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sarah Lawrence College is inviting undergrad applicants to write about how the Supreme Court's decision to overturn affirmative action is impacting their lives. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to consider race in college applications. But Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that students can still, in essays, write about how race has affected their lives. An exterior view of Sarah Lawrence College is seen on February 12, 2020 in Bronxville, New York. The Supreme Court's decision led by the conservative justices found that affirmative action policies, which allowed schools to account for a student's race in order to accept more diverse applicants, were discriminatory.

Persons: Sarah Lawrence, John Roberts, Sarah Lawrence's, Stephanie Keith, Roberts Organizations: Service, Supreme Locations: Wall, Silicon, Yonkers , New York, United States, Bronxville , New York

☆ Opinion | Do Legacy Admissions Also Benefit the Less Elite?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Legacy Admissions Don’t Work the Way You Think They Do,” by Shamus Khan (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, July 7):The convoluted justification for legacy admissions presented by Dr. Khan, a Princeton professor, is both insulting and patronizing to us not born into privilege — i.e., “poor students, students of color, and students whose parents didn’t have a college degree.”Per Dr. Khan, we receive a boost from attending elite schools because they connect us to students born into privilege and acculturate us “in the conventions and etiquette of high-status settings.”Wrong. We benefit from admission to elite schools because it signals our accomplishment and our merits to employers — a signaling we need in the job market because we lack the connections that legacy kids have. However, the benefit we receive has absolutely nothing to do with picking up “shared literary references” and the “right” sport. If indeed acculturation in these “conventions and etiquette” is a byproduct of legacy admissions, then that is even more reason to end the practice. Perpetuation of cultural traits of privilege is repellent and not the place of any university, including an elite one.

Persons: Shamus Khan, Dr, Khan, didn’t, ”, “ Locations: Princeton

☆ Colleges Must Recruit Scholars
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Daniel Pianko | Matthew Rascoff | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Democrats said decades ago they alone would run policies for black Americans. Now comes the reckoning. Images: AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe Supreme Court’s recent decision on affirmative action will wreak havoc at college admissions offices. While a majority of Americans are ready to say good riddance to race-based admissions, many researchers and pundits have warned that this decision will lead to a massive drop in historically underrepresented students at highly selective schools. What should colleges do to avoid that fate?

Persons: Mark Kelly

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