California college allowing homeless students to sleep in parked cars

California’s Long Beach City College said it will allow homeless students to sleep in their vehicles at the university’s parking garage. The school …

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Judge rules University of North Carolina can continue race-based admission policy

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) can continue its race-based admission policy for its undergraduate programs, …

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Louisiana university cancels classes after second fatal shooting within a week

Grambling State University has canceled classes and imposed a curfew after two fatal shooting on the campus within a week, …

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University of Virginia disenrolls more than 200 students who didn’t meet vaccine mandate

Students who comply with the vaccine requirement or file an exemption by Wednesday will be able to re-enroll.

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Virginia Tech pride flag stolen, replaced with Confederate flags

Police are investigating reports that a rainbow pride flag was stolen from a religious center on Virginia Tech’s campus for the third time in two weeks and that it was most recently replaced by two Confederate flags…

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Private colleges across America can’t pay their bills

Behind the scenes in colleges across the U.S., institutions are having trouble paying their bills.

Why it matters: There’s a reckoning coming in higher education — especially for smaller, private liberal arts schools — that’s been years in the making. In obvious ways, COVID-19 accelerated some of the trends, but college finances have been hurting for a while.

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• Pandemic-era government stimulus funds helped a slew of schools gain another year or two of financial runway.
• Yes, but: Restructuring advisors that work with higher ed institutions as clients say there’s been an uptick in schools that are beginning to explore financial transactions to keep from going under.

Demographics is destiny: A declining birthrate means the pool of college-age Americans has been declining, and could it be as much as 15% lower by the mid-2020s compared with the early 2000s.

Catch up quick: Smaller, nonurban liberal arts schools take the brunt of the shrinking student body, more so than elite universities with huge endowments, or large state schools that receive public funding.

• These schools “find it hard to differentiate themselves from other small, private liberal arts institutions” — and amid intense competition wind up offering substantial tuition discounts to a large chunk of students, Matthew Roseman, head of the bankruptcy practice at Cullen Dykman, tells Axios.
• They’re also often entirely tuition dependent, with low to no endowments, he says.

Then COVID hit.

Schools lost much of their room-and-board revenue over the last year. And some of that may never come back as remote learning expands.

This fall’s enrollment numbers will be make-or-break for many.

Be smart: Colleges can’t file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the way insolvent companies can because they would lose their accreditation and student access to federal loans.

• Banks and other lenders that provide loans to colleges are usually willing to provide more leeway than they would to corporate borrowers — with maturity extensions and other relief, says Mark Podgainy, managing director at consultant Getzler Henrich.
• No bank wants to see headlines about it tossing kids out of school, he says.
• In return, lenders usually require the universities to shore up their balance sheets, through mortgaging or selling real estate, or by inking an M&A or cost-sharing transaction with another school.

If a school still can’t survive, the insolvency process it uses is called a “teach-out” — where another school takes over its facilities and offers classes to students, while the legacy school liquidates its assets.

• Higher Ed Dive has cataloged recent transactions in higher ed, finding at least 18 schools closed or were consolidated into another institution during 2019 and 2020, after 25 such deals in the prior two years. Here’s a snapshot of some of those deals.

The intrigue: A new playbook might be emerging for struggling schools if a recent three-way tie-up centered around the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut goes as planned.

• Goodwin University acquired the University of Bridgeport’s real estate and academic programs. Meanwhile, Paier College of Art will relocate to Bridgeport’s campus and share resources. The three will remain independent institutions.

The bottom line: Students don’t usually evaluate a school’s wherewithal to pay its bills when choosing a college — but they’re the ones who stand to lose the most from closures. The earlier schools deal with their problems, the more likely they’ll be able to provide a smooth path for students to finish their degrees.

Source: https://www.axios.com/higher-education-debt-restructuring-8f67deab-a80c-4049-95a6-f5a147c1a87b.html
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LGBTQ students harassed in ‘horrific’ incident at Bucknell University, school says

“It is clear from multiple accounts that the students violated the physical space and, far more importantly, the residents’ sense of place and security,” the school said in a letter.

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The college degree barrier to work

There are millions of Americans who have the skills to get higher-level, higher-paying jobs but aren’t considered for those roles because they don’t have college degrees.

Why it matters: Companies hire based on credentials, not skills — and that’s limiting the economic mobility of millions of skilled workers without degrees and leaving firms with smaller pools of talent.

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Among American workers without college degrees are 77 million that do have high school diplomas, according to an analysis by the research and advocacy organization Opportunity@Work, provided exclusively to Axios. 55% of Hispanic workers and 65% of Black workers fall into this pool.

• And even though as many as 30 million of these workers have the skills to earn more, they’re often stuck in lower-wage jobs because of degree requirements, says Byron Auguste, CEO of Opportunity@Work.
• “It’s an enormous part of our talent pool, and it’s a pool that’s really undervalued to a damaging extent,” says Auguste, who also served as deputy director of the National Economic Council in the Obama administration.

For example, someone who has worked as a customer service representative could transition to an IT support specialist with some training and earn tens of thousands more, says Papia Debroy, SVP of insights at Opportunity@Work.

• Similarly, farmers have the skills to become purchasing managers, and food service managers can become health service managers.

Driving the news: Around 75% of the new jobs that were added to the U.S. economy between 2008 and 2017 required college degrees or higher, but nearly two thirds of the labor force is composed of workers without college degrees.

That’s because making higher education a requirement has turned into a quick way for employers to find candidates with soft skills, like management or communication, even though these skills can be acquired elsewhere, per a Harvard Business School study.

• Case in point: 41% of recent college grads are in roles that don’t require college degrees, per the New York Fed.
• College degree requirements stagnate millions of careers and make the labor market inefficient by keeping qualified people out of higher-level jobs, per the Harvard study.

But, but, but: Workers will face the college degree barrier when trying to climb the corporate ladder.

• Opportunity@Work’s analysis, which looked specifically at Hispanic workers, found that 1 in 4 Hispanic workers with just high school degrees have the skills to make career jumps based on their current occupations, but will be stopped by the degree barrier.

The stakes: During the pandemic, workers without college degrees have disproportionately lost their jobs, and many of those jobs — such as in food service and hospitality — won’t come back. Those people will need to find new jobs in new fields, and that will be hard to do unless employers do away with degree requirements where they can.

The bottom line: Says Auguste, “People who have bachelor’s degrees and people who don’t has become a major schism in our economy, in our society, and in our politics. And it doesn’t have to be that way.”

Source: https://www.axios.com/college-degree-barrier-work-08048e08-2685-4b25-87f9-89b216a32d06.html
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Yale requiring coronavirus vaccines for students to return

Yale University in New Haven, Conn., will require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning for in-person classes, the school said Monday.In a letter to students and community members on Monday ob…

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‘There could be a food fight:’ How Biden’s infrastructure plan may fracture the nation’s colleges

Free community college, a big hit on the campaign trail, is a key piece of President Joe Biden’s plan to rebuild the economy, and projects a blue-collar message that dovetails with his public persona and his wife’s teaching career.

It has also splintered the nation’s colleges and universities.

So far, Biden has stayed faithful to his community college pitch by including $12 billion for updating physical and technological infrastructure at community colleges in his $2 trillion infrastructure plan unveiled earlier this month. But what community colleges see as a boon after years of financial struggles, some four-year colleges see as a potential threat to their sagging enrollment.

Community colleges also have a champion in first lady Jill Biden — who teaches at a community college in Northern Virginia. Both she and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona are headed to Dixon, Ill., on Monday to tour Sauk Valley Community College.

Education groups are hoping Biden won’t make them choose between proposals for free college and those that boost financial aid, because they’re convinced Congress can’t stomach the price tag of doing both.

“I’m concerned that there could be a food fight,” J. Noah Brown, president of the Association of Community College Trustees, said in an interview.

“If you really want to screw things up, pit the sectors against one another,” he said. “When the sectors are pitted against one another, as you can well imagine, community colleges tend to lose more. I’m very worried about it.”

Organizations that represent four-year colleges are largely uninterested in making community college free. Instead, they argue the Biden administration should focus on doubling aid for the lowest-income students — and avoid siphoning off students from colleges already struggling to maintain their enrollment levels. The conflict between the two factions threatens to derail Biden’s cornerstone policy for higher education by cutting the legs out from under a free community college pitch widely popular among Democrats.

“Schools that don’t have a dog in the fight aren’t likely to be very excited about being part of the discussion,” Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs for the American Council on Education, the main group that advocates on behalf of higher education.

“A lot of four-year schools, especially four-year schools in areas where demography is reducing enrollment at institutions now, would look at this and see an existential threat,” he said.

Community college advocates say two years of free education beyond high school nationwide has been in the making for years and could finally remove barriers for low-income and minority students — as long as four-year colleges don’t get in the way.

Last week, Biden’s nominee to lead higher education policy at the Education Department, James Kvaal, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that community colleges are “one of the leading purveyors of second chances in America.” He said “a new partnership between the federal government and states is needed to make sure that public colleges and universities are affordable for all students.”

Biden’s second package, the “American Families Plan,” is rumored to do that by including a path to making two-year college free for all Americans. Those institutions are expected to play a key role in the nation’s economic recovery post-Covid by supporting workers who need new skills or vocational training through short-term programs.

In addition to the first lady, community colleges also have Congress’ ear. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) has vowed to reintroduce her America’s College Promise Act, a measure that would make community college free through a federal-state partnership similar to Biden’s proposal. The House Appropriations Labor-HHS-Education subcommittee is also holding a hearing on investing in community colleges on Tuesday.

Double the Pell Grant or make two years of college free

The president has billed his still-unreleased plans as a “once-in-a-generation investment.” It’s unclear whether four-year institutions will be largely left out of the spending on free college education. But the push for free two-year schooling has created a fault line over whether doubling the Pell Grant, which directs federal money to students with the greatest need, or making free community college would help the most students.

“If you doubled the maximum Pell Grant, you would ensure that low and lower-middle income students have resources to enroll in public colleges and universities,” Hartle, with the American Council on Education, said. “For the vast majority of community college students, it would mean that tuition would be free.”

All of higher education has a stake in doubling the Pell Grant, said Kevin Carey, vice president for education policy at New America, but cost is the main issue if both proposals were to pass given how they’re both likely to cost tens of billions of dollars.

“The key difference is one of those has the price control mechanism in it, and the other one does not,” Carey said. “Free is the price control, you’re setting a price to zero. Whereas, doubling the Pell Grant is: Here’s a lot of money, but we’re still operating under the ‘charge whatever you want’ system that we’ve had for 50 years.”

What we know about Biden’s free college pitch

Biden embraced the free community college movement on the campaign trail in 2019. Similar to Obama’s free two-year college proposal in 2015, his plan was framed as a federal-state partnership where the federal government covers 75 percent of the cost and states contribute the balance.

His initial plan classified it as a “first-dollar program”: students would be able to use Pell Grants, state money and other aid to help them cover expenses beyond tuition and fees. Nontraditional students, Dreamers and part-time students would also be eligible to partake in free community college, along with recent high school graduates.

The initial proposal was met with pushback from some public colleges and universities about not being included, Brown said. But, later on the campaign trail Biden adopted part of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) proposal to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for all families with incomes below $125,000.

Free community college advocates say they have plenty of buy-in across the nation to make it work. “Today we’ve got 337 local communities and 30 states plus the District of Columbia that are doing more than ever before for college promise tuition,” said Martha Kanter, an Obama-era higher education official who now leads College Promise, a nonpartisan nonprofit that champions the issue.

Kanter’s group unveiled its proposal Friday for a federal-state partnership to eliminate tuition and fees at public community colleges and four-year institutions.

But Hartle said Biden’s proposals face three main obstacles: cost, political pushback and whether it’ll work. “The federal government’s never tried to do anything like this before in higher education.”

This report was produced as part of the Higher Education Media Fellowship at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. The Fellowship supports reporting into postsecondary career and technical education.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/19/biden-infrastructure-plan-colleges-483052
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$50K of student loan forgiveness would wipe out federal debt for 36M, new data shows

More than 36 million Americans would have their federal student loans completely erased if the Biden administration were to accede to progressive demands to cancel up to $50,000 per borrower, according to new data from the Education Department.

The federal data was released on Tuesday by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who requested the information from the agency earlier this month.

Impact: If the federal government were to cancel that amount, 36 million of the 45 million federal student loan borrowers — roughly 80 percent — would have their debt completely eliminated, according to the data. That includes 9.8 million of the 10.3 million federal student loan borrowers who were either in default or more than three months delinquent on their debt at the end of 2019.

Key context: Warren and other Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have been pressing President Joe Biden to use executive authority to cancel student loan debt. The Biden administration has said it’s reviewing the issue.

The data provides more granular insight into how sweeping student loan forgiveness would affect the federal government’s $1.5 trillion student loan portfolio than is available from the department’s existing public datasets.

Less expansive student loan cancellation of $10,000 per borrower — which Biden backed on the campaign trail — would completely wipe out the debts of 15 million borrowers. About 4.6 million of those borrowers were in default or delinquent at the end of 2019.

The data also showed that millions of borrowers have been carrying federal student loan debt for decades. More than 10.6 million borrowers have been in repayment for more than 10 years. Another 4.4 million borrowers have been in repayment for more than 20 years.

Legal review: The Education Department’s response did not address Warren’s question on whether the Biden administration had rescinded a legal opinion published by the department in the waning days of the Trump administration. That memo concludes that the agency lacks the power to unilaterally to forgive large swaths of outstanding federal student loans.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain earlier this month told POLITICO that Biden expected a memo from Education Secretary Miguel Cardona within a “few weeks” about the administration’s legal powers to cancel federal student loans.

The Justice Department is also involved in that review, according to the White House.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/13/student-loan-forgiveness-new-data-481202
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Urges President To Act On Student Loan Debt As Biden Considers Executive Action

Long reluctant to erase student loan debt by executive order, President Joe Biden may be shifting his position. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona was asked to research and draft a memo laying legal options available to the president. 

The review comes as progressive lawmakers and various constituent groups call for the president to forgive at least a portion of existing student loan debt. Members of Congress, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, insist the president can erase $50,000 of federal student loan debt with a stroke of the pen. 

During a press conference with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Pressley called the student loan struggle an “all too familiar story for too many people.” She said the intersecting crises of economic hardship, racial injustice, and white supremacy and the ongoing student loan debt crisis demanded real action.

“What this moment calls for is that we are bold and intentional in our policymaking at every level of government, to confront these overlapping crises head-on and to set ourselves on a pathway to a just and equitable recovery,” said Presley. 

She also said Biden needed to “do right by the movement that elected him” and cancel $50,000 of federal student loan debt by executive order. 

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According to Pressley, eighty-five percent of Black students believe they have to take out student loans, and they are five times more likely to default on their loans. She also pointed out that borrowers 50 and older are the fastest-growing population of those who owe student loan debt. 

Biden has previously said he did not think people who went to top-tier schools should benefit; failing to acknowledge such a policy could negatively impact people from disadvantaged backgrounds who were more likely to take out loans. Also, some data suggests that less than 1% of all student loan borrowers attended Ivy League schools. Nearly half of all borrowers took out money to attend public colleges. 

Canceling $50,000 in federal student debt was a part of Warren’s platform when she ran for president. She explained that the $10,000 Biden previously pledged to cancel does not go far enough for most people. 

Warren said that from her team’s review of the data, canceling $50,000 helps most people carrying federal student loan debt. Warren also described seeing changes to the bankruptcy rules permit individuals who might have over $50,000 in federal student loans to use that process to discharge the debt. 

“The student debt crisis has always been a racial and economic justice issue,” Pressley continued, directly challenging skewed narratives around student loan debt. “But for too long that narrative has excluded Black and Latinx communities when in fact the student debt crisis has exacerbated deeply entrenched racial and economic inequities in our nation.” 

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Five dorms at University of Connecticut under quarantine

The move comes after state police broke up a nearby party attended by about 100 people.

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How the pandemic has changed the college admissions process

Todd Rinehart, President of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling, discusses how the pandemic has changed the college admissions process from financial strains to eliminating SAT testing. 

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Public colleges and universities brace for steep budget cuts spurred by the pandemic

Dozens of public universities that never fully recovered from the Great Recession now find themselves at the mercy of budget cuts driven by a pandemic that’s decimated their state’s biggest industries.

Many states managed to avoid a financial cave-in of their fiscal 2021 budgets, owing in large part to money doled out by Congress meant to shore up local economies battered by Covid-19. But those that largely depend on revenue from hard-hit industries like tourism and fossil fuels face big unknowns even with the new influx of federal relief President Joe Biden signed this week.

“The economy of the state of Hawaii has been crushed,” University of Hawaii president David Lassner said in an interview. That system hasn’t seen a steep drop off in enrollment like other parts of the country and was buoyed by federal CARES Act funding, but the pandemic has still forced them to recalibrate their mission and spending.

“We went from 10 million tourists a year to zero almost instantaneously,” he said. The drop in tourism revenue spurred Hawaii Gov. David Ige, a Democrat, to request a 15 percent reduction, about $78.4 million, in the general fund used for all campuses in the state’s university system. The legislature is expected to finalize the budget in the coming weeks.

Colleges and universities across the country are scrambling to stabilize their institutions by cutting costs and mulling tuition increases despite saying how wary they are of putting more financial strain on their students in a sour economy. Lassner said the Hawaiian system is re-imagining how it can contribute to rebuilding the state’s economy and train workers in new skills in a way that might help prove its value and prevent further cuts.

The University of Alaska, where oil and natural gas income fuels the state economy, is preparing itself for a third year of budget cuts tallied in the millions of dollars. And Nevada’s higher education system is planning a 12 percent cut after the tourism-centered economy there cratered. Colleges and universities in Rhode Island and Louisiana also expect to sustain multimillion-dollar losses this year and in 2022.

Public institutions serve the lion’s share of the nation’s college students, some 14.6 million of 19.7 million students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And cuts to those schools would disproportionately hurt low-income students who attend them in larger numbers than they do private universities. Some higher education groups say colleges and universities will need more than twice as much as Biden’s America Rescue Plan allots for them.

Making deep cutbacks to public higher education could hinder low-income students’ upward mobility, said Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

“Higher education is one of those state budget items that is historically one of the first items to be cut and one of the last items to be replenished,” Harnisch said. His group and the think tank New America track how the pandemic has affected state higher education budgets.

When Nevada faced a $1.2 billion budget shortfall last year, Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) directed every state agency to craft their spending needs with a 12 percent cut baked into each year of the biennial budget. That came after the state’s Democratic-controlled Legislature already shaved $137 million — nearly 20 percent — from higher education appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, pushing officials to setup a temporary per-credit surcharge on college classes, and pay cuts and furloughs for staff.

“We have state appropriation going down and revenue and tuition going down because the impact on students and their families has been so devastating financially that there are families that are choosing to sit it out,” Melody Rose, Nevada’s chancellor of higher education, said in an interview.

Sisolak has officially proposed an end to the furlough, she said, but the system is being financially strained on all sides, including losses in tuition revenue and non-academic revenue like athletics.

“If you think about our campuses that have significant athletics programs, you have lost ticket sales, lost concessions, television deals,” Rose said. “And there are increased costs at the same time for Covid mitigation and for moving all of our learning online.”

This week the White House threw colleges and universities a life line when Biden signed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which includes $40 billion for postsecondary institutions. Its enactment could “take some of the pressure off of the state and their view on what kind of reductions the university has to take,” Lassner said.

The University of Alaska system has cut programs and followed through on implementing a 5 percent tuition increase as oil revenue in the state declines. After having its budget reduced by $51 million in the years leading up to the pandemic, it will also lose an additional $70 million through fiscal year 2022. The state budget won’t be updated until December.

Additionally, the governor vetoed a proposal in the legislature’s finalized 2021 budget that would have increased the appropriation to the university system by $12.5 million. The governor indicated that the CARES Act would supply that cash flow.

“The federal relief helps us with the Covid impact, but it will in no way touch the holes of the state budget reductions,” University of Alaska president Pat Pitney said in an interview.

Some states are optimistic and looking at modest boosts. Alabama, which used a rainy day fund to keep colleges and universities a float during economic downturns, increased the budget for its four-year institutions by 2.7 percent and for its two-year colleges by 2.1 percent for the current fiscal year.

Kentucky’s governor, Andy Beshear, included a 2 percent boost for postsecondary operating funds in his state budget and more than $75 million for campus asset preservation projects and pension-related costs — the state’s first investment in higher education in more than a decade.

Higher education in the state faced 12 budget cuts — about $222 million — over the past 14 years, according to Bill Payne, vice president for finance at the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.

Since the 2008 recession, “Kentucky was not able to recover and has not begun reinvesting in higher education as a number of other states did,” Payne said.

Over the next several weeks, the state’s general assembly will decide what it will enact.

A combination of federal aid from Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package and Beshear’s proposed budget “would really help to get Kentucky back on the right track,” Payne added.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/11/public-colleges-and-universities-brace-for-steep-budget-cuts-spurred-by-the-pandemic-475393
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Ohio college student dies after alleged hazing incident

A Bowling Green State University (BGSU) student died on Sunday after an alleged fraternity hazing incident.Multiple media outlets reported that Stone Foltz, a sophomore business student at the northwestern Ohio university, di…

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17 state attorneys general call for canceling $50K in student loan debt

A coalition of 17 state attorneys general is calling for the cancellation of up to $50,000 in federal student loan debt for all borrowers. The Democrat…

Source: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/539569-17-state-attorneys-general-call-for-canceling-50k-in-student-loan-debt
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Jordan Williams

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Grades no longer define success for many college students. Covid shows why.

I’m finally learning that it is OK if I’m not the best student in every class in every semester. It’s been a hard but very important lesson.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/college-amid-covid-reveals-truth-about-education-privilege-luxury-good-ncna1249278
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Mansee Khurana

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Vanderbilt University senior Sarah Fuller makes college football history as kicker

“Sarah Fuller. Remember the name,” the Vanderbilt Football team tweeted alongside a photo of Fuller wearing her “Play like a girl” helmet.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/vanderbilt-university-senior-sarah-fuller-makes-college-football-history-kicker-n1249226
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Nicole Acevedo and Variety

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Afghanistan: At least 19 dead after gunmen storm university

Three gunmen shot dead as 22 others also injured

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kabul-university-shooting-afghanistan-attack-death-toll-b1533528.html
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Chiara Giordano

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