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Combating Anxiety and Depression on College Campuses George Orley, a 20 year old, packed up his car and hugged his parents goodbye before driving 45 minutes to start his junior year the University of Michigan. Just a few days later, his parents were contacted by the...

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Combating Anxiety on College Campuses George Orley, a 20 year old, packed up his car and hugged his parents goodbye before driving 45 minutes to start his junior year the University of Michigan. Just a few days later, his parents were contacted by the police to inform...

Where is Affirmative Action going under Trump?

          Over the eight years Obama was president of the United States, he believed and reaffirmed that schools should be a more diverse melting pot. President Obama implemented policies and showed schools how to create more diverse campuses. With an increasingly...

Operation Varsity Blues

In light of recent allegations of reputable and big name universities accepting sizable donations in exchange for admittance, I thought this would be an adequate topic for this week’s Affirmative Action blog. Two actresses have been under fire for cheating to get...

Penn State’s Efforts

Penn State has taken many strides to improve the diversity across the campuses, in both faculty and staff and the student population. In a released statement by the Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity, A Framework to Foster Diversity at Penn State:...

Affirmative Action in Elite Universities

Affirmative action programs were implemented to level the playing field for applicants of particularly higher education institutions. While universities cannot fulfill racial quotas, admission counselors can consciously create a more diverse accepted pool. However,...

What is Affirmative Action?

“Affirmative action policies are those in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society.”(NCSL) Affirmative action primarily is concerned with educational institutions and...