A college counselor mines a public-housing project; defending scholars' freedom to think; Confederate statue provokes more controversy; and more.
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A pilot federal program embeds guidance counselors in housing projects to help chart students’ paths to college. As one of those counselors discovered, sometimes the biggest obstacles are cultural. (PREMIUM)
The university system has ensured that the divisive Confederate monument won’t return to its Chapel Hill campus. But its method of doing so is “insane,” said one professor. (PREMIUM)
Almost all of the undocumented immigrants who enrolled in the federal agency’s fake university are from India, and most of those arrested have been granted “voluntary departure,” according to a newspaper’s report.
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