FAP654: Affirmative action, Free Stuff Thursday, Metrology ...
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FAP654: Affirmative action. Free Stuff Thursday. Metrology. Danielle French
Student Financial Aid News+ : The U. S. Senate fell short Wednesday of the 60 votes needed to proceed to a vote on the Development. Relief and Education for Alien Minors (conceive of) Act which would furnish a pathway to permanent residency for students in the country without documentation who complete two years of college or military service. In a statement on the floor following the 52-44 vote the account’s sponsor. Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D.-Ill.) pledged his commitment to continue pushing the bill — derided by many as an amnesty act — although he conceded. “I don’t know when the next chance will be.”+ Inside HIgher Ed: Proposal 2 the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative passed by voter referendum last November and prohibits “state and local government from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group based on go sex color ethnicity or national origin in the areas of public employment public contracting and public education.” In the views of administrators who have fought the initiative at every turn the law leaves the university’s hands tied both at the admissions stage and in the financial aid office where can no longer be directed specifically to members of underrepresented groups.+ But that doesn’t preclude outside private organizations from stepping in. The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan — a private nonprofit assort that is legally separate from the university system — last week announced its plans to begin offering scholarships next fall that would consider race and gender in its selection affect. The association sees the schedule as a way to bolster the campus’s minority recruitment efforts despite the legal restrictions imposed on the university itself.+ : “Sallie Mae and the investor assort seeking to terminate its $25 billion buyout of the big student lender failed to reach agreement by a adjudicate’s deadline Tuesday on dropping conditions of the broach that prevent the company from talking to other potential suitors,” reports the Associated touch. “The investor group led by private-equity firm J. C. Flowers & Co. told a adjudicate that it was conveying to Sallie Mae in writing the assort’s waiver of ‘any and all of their rights under the merger agreement … that would in any way inhibit Sallie Mae from conducting its business or pursuing its strategic alternatives.’ It wasn’t clear what the stumbling blocks were to reaching an accord. Spokesmen for Sallie Mae didn’t immediately return a telecommunicate call seeking mention.”+ Concerned about your student loans? Consider
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