The University of Chicago agreed this week to pay $13.5 million to resolve claims it conspired with 16 other elite schools - including most members of the Ivy League -
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Precollege programs can help boost access for students from underrepresented communities. The Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling could force colleges to rethink them. Rice College president Reginald DesRoches launched his career as a civil engineer–turned–higher ed administrator back in the early 1980s, when he joined a summer bridge program for students from underrepresented backgrounds before his freshman year at the University of California, Berkeley.
Crown, whose family is the namesake of several facets of the University, served as Board of Trustees chairman from 2003 to 2009 and remained a trustee until his passing at age 70.