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Va. House votes to force public colleges to reckon with ties to slavery, create scholarships or other programs


Va. House votes to force public colleges to reckon with ties to slavery, create scholarships or other programs
Nick Anderson
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People wearing masks walk across the Lawn at the University of Virginia on Sept. 7, 2020
Five public colleges and universities in Virginia would be required to detail as much as possible their ties to enslaved Black individuals who worked on their grounds and to establish scholarships or economic development programs to benefit communities descended from those people under a bill the Virginia House passed Thursday.
The bill seeks to hold accountable the College of William & Mary, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Military Institute and Longwood University for their institutional actions during Virginia’s long history of supporting and defending slavery from the Colonial era through the Civil War. ....

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Applications surge after big-name colleges halt SAT and ACT testing rules


Applications surge after big-name colleges halt SAT and ACT testing rules
Nick Anderson
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People wearing masks walk across the Lawn at the University of Virginia on Sept. 7, 2020
The University of Virginia drew a record 48,000 applications for the next class in Charlottesville about 15 percent more than the year before.
Freshman applications to the University of California at Berkeley crossed into six figures for the first time, totaling more than 112,000, up 28 percent. Harvard University’s total spiked to an all-time high of 57,000. That’s up 42 percent.
The sudden explosion in demand for these and other big-name schools is another ripple effect of the coronavirus pandemic that could reshape college admissions for many years to come. The pandemic has given huge and in some places, decisive momentum to a movement to reduce or even eliminate the use of admissions testing at highly ....

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