Yale University announced over the weekend it will rename its Calhoun College due to its namesake having ties to slave ownership and white supremacy. This reverses Yale President Peter Salovey’s previous announcement that the name would remain, despite student protests calling for a change. Calhoun College was named after John…
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Archived: Harvard Makes History As It Admits Highest Number of Black and Latino Students to Date
By Julissa Catalan Photo by Shutterstock The graduating Class of 2018 will be a lot more diverse than previous years. While some of the top Ivy League schools in the U.S. only accept 5 to 10 percent of students who apply, newly released data reports that Harvard University accepted 2,023…