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• Provost builds software that accurately predicts a student’s GPA

  College Fix Staff •March 16, 2012

  Tristan Denley, provost at Austin Peay State University, has created a computer program called Degree Compass that predicts a student's future GPA within 2 hundredths of a point.

• How Affirmative Action Backfires

  College Fix Staff •February 28, 2012

  In an essay in Time, Heather MacDonald explains how racial preferences work against the very people they are supposed to help: A body of empirical research has emerged showing that racial preferences can hurt their purported beneficiaries by catapulting them into schools for which they are inadequately prepared. Placed in classrooms pitched above their current level of knowledge, they learn less than they would if they were among peers whose academic skills more closely mirror their own... More

• NYT affirms affirmative action, urges courts to do the same

  College Fix Staff •January 23, 2012

  In a weekend editorial titled "The Affirmative Action War Goes On," the New York Times instructs various courts to uphold the constitutionality and desirability of racial preferences in university admissions.

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  TFA: America’s hottest employer

  Eden Stiffman - SFPA Contributor •November 2, 2011

  18 percent of Harvard's graduating class applied in 2011. It was the largest employer of Duke and Yale grads. And TFA spends a lot of money and time to make it that way.

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  In 10 years following tragedy, Columbia forges on

  Madina Toure - Columbia Spectator •September 9, 2011

  One week after Rebecca Weber started her first year at Columbia, she looked up to see black smoke floating over campus.

• Study says Miami, Ohio State admissions discriminate against whites

  Stephen Bell - SFPA Contributor •February 18, 2011

  The Center for Equal Opportunity says the schools preference African-American, Hispanic and Asian students.