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☆ Harvard University will be led by a person of color for the first time in its nearly 400-year history
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
History has been made at Harvard University, as Claudine Gay becomes the first person of color — and second woman — to be named president of the school. The university reports that for the last 16 years, Gay, 52, has taught government and African and African American Studies. in economics from Stanford University with honors and distinctions before earning her PhD at Harvard in 1998. Her appointment further upholds the university's commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB). According to the Harvard University website, 15.2% of the admitted class of 2026 identify as African American — an increase from just 12.7% in 2020 — 27.9% identify as Asian American and 12.6% identify as Hispanic or Latino.
☆ A non-profit that's poured $19 billion into affordable housing development shares how investors can see stable returns with this 'impactful investment opportunity'
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Jennifer Streaks | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Despite the challenges in affordable housing development, Enterprise Community Partners has deployed $19 billion of housing equity into more than 2,600 developments, creating and preserving more than 184,000 affordable homes. The Columbia, Maryland-based non-profit continues to strive to show that affordable housing is an impactful investment. "Once the narrative is changed around affordable housing, it will be seen as the impactful investment opportunity that it is." "The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is our most powerful tool for building and preserving affordable housing," Hoekman says. The Act seeks to expand and strengthen the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit by increasing housing credit allocations and maximizing affordable housing production and preservation.
☆ Zuckerberg motivates supervoting stock resistance
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Jeffrey Goldfarb | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Mark Zuckerberg is providing fresh motivation for investors everywhere. If there was ever a time for shareholders to rally against the sort of dual-class structures that surrender control to entrepreneurs, Zuckerberg has provided the ammunition. At the time of the stock sale, Zuckerberg commanded 57% of the vote with just a 28% economic stake, subjugating other owners with supervoting shares that carry 10 votes apiece. Meta reckons its board is sufficiently independent to keep watch over Zuckerberg, despite his codified influence over it. Rejecting supervoting stock would be the best option.
☆ Alzheimer's disease, retirement 'pacts,' and serving until you're 104 years old: Inside the federal judiciary's reckoning with age
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | Camila Dechalus | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +23 min
She was nearly two decades older than the median age — 68 — for all federal judges, according to an Insider analysis. More than a century later, in the 1920s, future Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes argued for a mandatory retirement age. In 1954, the Senate passed a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that'd require retirement at age 75 for federal judges. A recent poll by Insider and Morning Consult found that 71% of 2,210 respondents said the federal judiciary should have a mandatory retirement age. For Scheindlin, the former federal judge in Manhattan, Weinstein was an example of an older judge who was "terrific to his last day."
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