New developments released in affirmative action lawsuit against UNC
By Leah Asmelash | Jan. 18, 2019The group claims UNC considers race as a dominant factor and has not considered enough “race-neutral” alternatives.
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The group claims UNC considers race as a dominant factor and has not considered enough “race-neutral” alternatives.
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"For every low-income student eligible for the Carolina Covenant, there are two middle-income students supported by other forms of institutionally funded aid."
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Viviana Gonzalez is one of 18,862 undergraduate students at UNC. However, according to the Office of Undergraduate Retention, Gonzalez is one of 4,000 students to be the first in their family to attend college.
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International students need a lot of help to get from home to UNC, but many of them said the University misses the mark. Everything that confuses the average incoming first-year is also an obstacle for international students — figuring out what classes to take, how to pay tuition, how to find friends — but for them, there is another layer of bureaucracy and unfamiliarity that UNC doesn't fully address.
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The American Talent Initiative is collaborating with universities across the country—including UNC—to make their institutions more accessible for low-income students as they are still underrepresented at universities.
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Public university systems in states like California and North Carolina are rejecting students that would have been accepted in prior years.
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At a University where only 37.6 percent of students are people of color, and only 7.8 percent self-identify as Black or African-American only, it is common for Black students to feel uncomfortable or targeted by microaggressions in an institutionalized white space like UNC.
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The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities is introducing a new project designed to encourage institutional cooperation and increase college graduation rates.
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UNC has seen a 6 percent increase in applications since last year, a number that's been rising since 2005.
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Every January UNC welcomes a new group of first-years into the Tar Heel community. Recently UNC released its early admissions decisions. Staff writer Kayla Boswell reached out to perspective first-years via Twitter to see what they were most excited about their first year at UNC.
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Of the 30,000 out-of-state residents who applied to UNC this year, only a handful will be granted admission, and even fewer will be offered a financial aid package. This roadblock has prevented thousands of potential out-of-state students from accepting their offer of admission, and the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid has its hands tied by North Carolina policies. Full tuition cost in addition to room and board can cost upwards of $50,000 for out of state students attending UNC.
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A new report by New America has found that colleges are accepting fewer low-income students than they were 20 years ago.
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Brown University launched a campaign Wednesday to eliminate loans from its financial aid packages for all current and incoming students in the next academic year.
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Minority representation in the nation’s top universities has declined in the last 35 years despite affirmative action, according to a New York Times analysis.
Read More »Affirmative action admissions programs at universities across the country may be in jeopardy in light of a recent memo by the Donald Trump administration.
Read More »When senior Riley Foster first started tutoring young refugee students, she assumed she was being encouraging and reaffirming of their abilities. But when one student casually mentioned he was never going to go to college because his parents couldn’t afford it, Foster felt disheartened.
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UNC has been chosen to receive the Cooke Prize for Equity in Educational Access and will receive $1 million from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
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The breakdown of UNC’s incoming class doesn’t vary much year to year. The percentage of out-of-state students always hovers at around 18 percent—where it has been capped for more than three decades.
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The University has experienced the highest number of international applications ever, despite the executive orders out of the White House and perceived limited international student resources.
Read More »The UNC Office of Undergraduate Admissions began a new outreach program this year which aims to call admitted incoming first-years, with the goal of giving a phone call to every North Carolinian accepted in the early application phase.
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