President Biden speaks on racial equity before signing executive orders.
For years, researchers and higher education advocates have been frustrated by the lack of good Education Department data on how students of color and those with lower incomes are being let down by the nation’s higher education system.
“It’s hard to solve racial equity problems if you can’t see them,” said Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at the progressive think tank New America, and formerly a senior policy adviser at the department during the Obama administration.
However, progressive advocacy groups say an executive order President Biden signed on his first day in office instructing the Education Department and all federal agencies to examine whether they are perpetuating systemic racism could have profound effects on the experience of students from underrepresented groups at colleges and universities.
BENNETT HALL
Corvallis Gazette-Times
A mid-valley real estate brokerage has agreed to pay $180,000 to settle claims by federal regulators that it accepted thousands of dollars in illegal kickbacks as part of a widespread scheme to funnel business to a California mortgage lender.
In an enforcement action announced this week by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Keller Williams Mid-Willamette was named as one of more than 100 real estate brokerages that accepted illegal payoffs to steer homebuyers to Prospect Mortgage of Sherman Oaks, California.
Headquartered at 1121 N.W. Ninth St. in Corvallis, Keller Williams Mid-Willamette has about 130 real estate brokers and operates satellite offices in Albany, Lebanon and Sweet Home.