Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants ...

California became the fifth state in the US to ban universities from admitting students based on family connections or donations after Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he had signed AB 1780 into ...

Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants related to alumni or donors of the school ...

In Revenge of the Tipping Point, Gladwell notes that Caltech, a highly competitive university with a merit-based admissions system, saw the proportion of Asian American students rise from 25% to ...

When a school is suspected of violating the ban on legacy and donor admissions, the State Attorney General’s Office can look into it.

If colleges are required to practice race-neutral admissions policies, why should they be able to continue admission practices – involving legacy or donor preferences – that appear to ...

Assembly Bill 1780, sponsored by Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, targets legacy and donor admissions at private colleges and universities. While the University of California and ...

A federal appeals court Wednesday overturned the convictions of two wealthy businessmen in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions ... and a gross misuse of donor trust.” ...

Gavin Newsom could soon be the second governor to ban legacy admissions at private universities ... admits a higher percentage of students with alumni and donor ties than all but two California ...