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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education is a center of much vitriolic partisan debate in America. However, David Coleman, head of The College Board, insists that the changes were not due to political pressure. In doing so, they are complicit in reinforcing racist and oppressive power dynamics that contribute to inequality in higher education access.

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

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It proposed abolishing the residency requirement whilst suggesting reserving the degree for those who had either passed the Honours examination either in two subjects, or achieved the ‘higher Honours in one’. [14] 15] By contrast, the Trinity College Dublin Commission in 1853 was more reform-minded. 31] Trinity College M.A.s

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