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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, David Coleman, head of The College Board, insists that the changes were not due to political pressure. The College Board’s commitment to equity has been woefully inadequate, and its decisions demonstrate a tone-deafness toward the suffering of the Black community. principles."

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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

HEPI

15] By contrast, the Trinity College Dublin Commission in 1853 was more reform-minded. It noted the Provost (the head) of the college thought the ‘present mode of conferring the higher Degrees unseemly’. 24] Columbia College, Statutes of Columbia College and Associated Schools , (New York, 1878), p. B.D., &c.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

I said, Kathy Mulvey, it’s actually Kathy Hebda, who’s the chancellor of the Florida college system. You released your preliminary report in July of 2023. It was only one state, New York, who actually was in the business of accrediting schools and New York got out of that in March of 2023, this year.