Harvard students and supporters marched through Harvard Square during a rally on Saturday to oppose the Supreme Courtโs ruling against affirmation action.
Columbia University will become the first major university to drop from the U.S. News rankings of undergraduate schools.
At institutions like Cornell University, first-year applicants are not required to submit SAT or ACT scores.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va.
Yale Law School, which led the boycott of the U.S. News rankings, is at the top of the rankings again in 2023, though tied this year with Stanford.
There had long been talk about the need for an Advanced Placement course focused on the Black experience. Now in a pilot program for African American studies, Rachel Williams-Giordano instructed the students Agustina Leon Perdomo, 16, center, and Riley Ferrell, 16, at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass.
In January, demonstrators in Tallahassee protested policies restricting how issues of race are taught in Florida schools, including the decision by the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis to reject a proposed Advanced Placement course in African American studies.
Nemat Shafik, who previously served as deputy governor of the Bank of England, spoke during the International Monetary Fund spring meetings in 2016 in Washington.