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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. Harvard adopted testing in 1934 to select scholarship recipients followed by many other institutions. Education is a center of much vitriolic partisan debate in America. principles."

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

HEPI

in 1793 to 1794 had resided for at least seven terms (there were in those days four terms per year) they tended to either hold college scholarships or be prospective clergymen preparing for ordination. Colleges did not offer any formal teaching to the students leading to the M.A. 5] The degree examinations became a farce. [6]

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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.

Now this is striking because New College has never had an intercollegiate athletics program, but they decided to at least build with baseball and they recruited 70 freshman baseball players on athletic scholarship. In most cases we didn’t even hear back.