Lucia Rafanelli is an alumna of Cornell University.
The Obama Administration filed an amicus brief last week advising the Supreme Court to uphold the University of Texas’ policy of factoring race into admissions decisions. The related case, Fisher v. University of Texas, is the result of a lawsuit filed by a white applicant to the institution who was not granted admission, and who […]
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President Obama issued an executive order on Thursday that created an specific educational initiative for African-Americans. Dubbed the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans, the program aims to increase black children’s access to quality instructors and educational programs from kindergarten to college. While Obama’s professed goal of equal access to a quality education […]
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With election season well under way, the Obama administration now finds itself up against lawsuits brought by several of the nation’s most prominent religious universities. Catholic University and the University of Notre Dame have already filed suit in opposition to the now-infamous federal requirement that insurance companies provide no-fee coverage of a slew of contraceptive […]
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