The FFA District 5 Leadership Development Public Speaking Competition held Saturday, Feb. 3 at the Hamilton Central School in Hamilton, New York brought out more than 250 FFA members from 20 chapters to display their communication skills.
The Supreme Court said Friday that the United States Military Academy at West Point can continue considering race as a factor in its admissions process while a legal challenge to the practice plays out.
The Supreme Court ruled the U.S. Military Academy at West Point may continue using race as a factor in admissions, leaving intact the slim remains of affirmative action in higher education. At the end of its last term, the high court in a landmark decision gutted race-conscious admissions policies at universities nationwide, except at military…
The group behind the Supreme Court cases that gutted affirmative action in higher education is newly asking the justices to block race-conscious admissions policies at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In June, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling effectively barring the use of race in college admissions, but the decision did…
The Illinois FFA major state officers and hundreds of Illinois Farm Bureau members from across the state met at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago on Dec. 1 to celebrate the state’s agricultural accomplishments over the past year.