The first-term Democrat leaned on a small, five-person commission to vet and identify picks for the high court. Three were either current or former appointees of Governor Maura Healey’s.
Many college admissions officials across the country weren’t surprised when, in June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that higher education institutions could no longer use race as a factor in their admissions process. Some, including Northeastern’s Chief Legal, Compliance and Risk Officer Mary Strother, had been expecting the decision for years. “I’ve been in this.
Northeastern’s faculty senate held its biweekly meeting Nov. 15 to discuss the university’s Oakland campus housing availability, experiential learning complications and developments, continued global campus expansion, adaptations the school will make to conform to the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling and new dean appointments. The meeting also included an annual update from Provost and Senior.
The War of 1812 in Missouri bore little resemblance to the war most of us hear about in history classes. Most Missourians who served were frontier militiamen such as a young man from near Caledonia George D. Strother.