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School Law
Proposed Legislation Would Bar Institutions of Higher Education from Considering School Disciplinary History in Admissions
By Dori Pagé Antonetti, Jessica Richman Smith
Last week, the Education Committee considered HB 5339 and, after discussion, voted to advance it beyond the committee. The proposed bill would prohibit institutions of higher education in Connecticut from…
ImmigrationProf Blog
College applicants with immigrant parents caught in chaos of college admissions
The college admissions students brings perennial stress to high school seniors and their families. This year a snag with financial aid forms caused additional chaos and put families in the…
Kogut & Wilson Blog
Do I Have to Financially Support My Adult Children After Divorce?
A parent’s obligation to pay child support generally terminates upon the earliest of the following dates: the child’s emancipation, which occurs when the child turns 18 the child’s high school…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
CFPB Reports That College-Sponsored Financial Products Have Higher Fees and Less Favorable Terms
By Mark Furletti, Taylor Gess, Melanie Griffith, Stefanie Jackman, Caleb Rosenberg, Chris Willis
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its 14th annual report to Congress in fulfillment of its requirements under the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act.…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
Biden-Harris Administration Amends Higher Education Act to Address College Closures and Withholding Transcripts
By David N. Anthony, Stefanie Jackman, Ronald I. Raether, Jr., Caleb Rosenberg, Tim J. St. George
On October 24, the Biden-Harris administration announced amendments to the regulations implementing title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). According to the fact sheet, the amendments are…
Simple Justice
Tuesday Talk*: The Correlation of Wealth And Elite Admission
Neither I nor my children benefited from legacy admissions. Indeed, if anything, we were the group left behind, neither rich enough to be anywhere near the top one-tenth of one…
The Right Coast
Colleges Must Recruit Scholars – WSJ
The end of affirmative action is an opportunity to redesign the whole system. But the ideas that colleges have floated so far are mostly milquetoast: more outreach to guidance counselors,…
The Right Coast
Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids – WSJ
When the Supreme Court struck down racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused her colleagues of having let-them-eat-cake obliviousness. Her assessment of the case is as confused…
Inside Jobs
Considerations for Employers Following the EEOC’s Response to the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Race-Conscious College Admissions
By Lindsay Burke, Carolyn Rashby, Dana Remus
In its decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina[1] issued on June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court held that the…
The Right Coast
This Isn t the End of Affirmative Action Paul Moreno
Racial preference programs proliferated in the 1970s. Higher education admissions preferences were upheld under the diverse student body rationale in the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v.…