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In the wake of the scandal surrounding false reporting of SAT scores at Claremont McKenna College, the finance magazine Kiplinger has removed the college from its 2011-2012 "Best Values in Private Colleges" list. “Claremont McKenna College unfairly earned its place as 18th-ranked private liberal arts college in our college rankings by reporting inflated SAT scores,” a statement atop Kiplinger’s “Best Values” list said. “We have dropped the college from our 2011-12 rankings..." More
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Clint Townsend, a campus coordinator for Students for Liberty, has written an op-ed in today's Star-Telegram arguing that although the good doctor has little chance of capturing the Republican presidential nomination, his views are slowly creeping into the mainstream of political thought.
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In an all-too predictable bit of news from the Washington Post: A Yale University spokesman said the School of Public Health is reviewing its decision to have Brinker speak at this year’s commencement. The District-based American Association of University Women, a national women’s advocacy group with 1,000 branches across the country, said Thursday that it would no longer collaborate with Komen... More
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During the grueling Republican primary season, traditionally liberal college newspapers approach endorsements in a number of ways. Some aren't endorsing at all. Others have been swayed by some of the candidates, particularly Ron Paul and ex-candidate Jon Huntsman.
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Sarah Palin wrote on Facebook that President Obama's refusal to grant healthcare law waivers to all Catholic institutions is especially cold considering the welcoming he received at the University of Notre Dame in 2009, where he delivered the commencement speech.
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A recent graduate of the school reports that the fraud may have been part of an effort to compensate for lower test scores among incoming students who were part of a program to enhance racial and economic diversity: in 2004, Claremont began admitting its first of four classes from the Posse Foundation, a full-scholarship program for inner-city students from Los Angeles. Ten students were admitted per year into a class of about 250 students, for a total of 40 students over four years. The students were personally interviewed by Vos and Gann, according to a press release from the college’s website in late December 2003, but in his 2005 report to U.S. News–the first year Posse students were admitted–Vos began falsifying SAT scores.