Education Department Opens Investigation Into Harvard’s Legacy Admissions
Civil Rights
Education Department Opens Investigation Into Harvard's Legacy Admissions

BOSTON (AP) — Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's policies on legacy admissions. Top colleges' preferential treatment of children of alumni, who are... Read More

Supreme Court Seems Ready to Narrow Affirmative Action’s Role in College Admissions
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Narrow Affirmative Action’s Role in College Admissions
2022-11-01 14:29:46
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — For decades colleges and universities across the country have used affirmative action in their admissions programs to foster diversity on campus. On Monday, however, the conservative supermajority on the high court signaled they are ready to sharply curtail... Read More

Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case Challenges College Admissions Policies
Education
Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case Challenges College Admissions Policies
2022-01-26 00:15:36
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an affirmative action case that threatens to invalidate college admissions policies intended to level the playing field for disadvantaged minorities. A group of Asian students say they were passed over by... Read More

Health Summit Panel Debates Drug Pricing Proposals
Prescription Drugs
Health Summit Panel Debates Drug Pricing Proposals
2021-06-30 14:31:12
by Alexa Hornbeck

Policymakers and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry debated the cost of prescription drugs and the myriad of proposals on Capitol Hill to bring those prices down at last week's Milken Institute Future of Health Summit. Amitabh Chandra, a health care... Read More

Harvard Researchers Recommend Census Not Use Privacy Tool
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Harvard Researchers Recommend Census Not Use Privacy Tool

A group of Harvard researchers has come out against the U.S. Census Bureau's use of a controversial method to protect privacy with the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts, saying it doesn't produce data good enough for redistricting.... Read More

Flying is Safer Than Grocery Shopping or Eating Out, Report Says
Health
Flying is Safer Than Grocery Shopping or Eating Out, Report Says

Flying ranks below grocery shopping and eating in a restaurant when it comes to the risk of contracting COVID-19 in a public place, a new study claims. It's all in the ventilation and the protocols, researchers at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School... Read More

AZ Senate: Martha McSally (R)
Senate Watch
AZ Senate: Martha McSally (R)
2020-10-28 13:53:15
by TWN Staff

About McSally: Incumbent Martha McSally earned an appointment to the United States Air Force Academy in 1988 before receiving her master’s from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1990. McSally was graduate number 21 of 103 in... Read More

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