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College
policy shift is decried |
by LAUREN
CARUBA AND SILVIA FOSTER-FRAU - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 08/03
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A White House move against affirmative action admissions set off alarms Wednesday among local higher education officials, who said the
directive comes at a time when the state’s minority students need more educational access, not less. “There is a widespread misunderstanding or misuse of affirmative action, thinking that it is a legal permission to discriminate against white applicants,”
said David Nguyen, an assistant professor of education leadership and policy at UTSA who studies admissions in higher education and holds a law degree. “The definition of affirmative action does not allow employers or universities to discriminate based on
race.”
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Ten
Years Ago Fewer Than 3,000 Girls Took the AP CS Exam. Now There Are Nearly 30,000 |
by JENNY
ABAMU - EdSurge | Pub: 08/02
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Educators and students around the nation are celebrating the completion this year’s Computer Science Advanced Placement (AP) Exam. Students
are mostly celebrating the fact that it's over, but teachers are excited that data (released from Code.org this morning) indicates a record number of students, in particular girls and minorities, taking the exam.
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The
School District Where Principals Also Teach |
by DENISA
R. SUPERVILLE - Education Week | Pub: 07/31
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The common lament is that principals have extraordinarily demanding and near impossible jobs. Setting class schedules. Evaluating teachers.
Drafting school budgets. Overseeing school bus drop-off and pick-up. But Dana McCauley, a principal in the Garrett County school system in western Maryland, does all of that—and more.
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New
UTSA president opens up about goals for university |
by SILVIA
FOSTER-FRAU - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 07/31
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As a biology major in college with a doctorate in civil engineering, Taylor Eighmy thinks about San Antonio as a “living laboratory.” “I
created a little term in my head the other day, I call it urbanomics. Though I did find out on Google someone else has created that, I want to borrow that term because I think that’s what the future of urban research institutions is going to be,” Eighmy said
in an interview this week. The future president of the University of Texas at San Antonio explained that similar to genomics or proteomics — a new science studying human genes — urbanomics is about understanding what makes San Antonio thrive, “how it’s wired
and how it operates,” and how UTSA can best fit into the growing city of San Antonio.
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Learning
the language |
by DAVID
HINOJOSA - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 07/31
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Learning English is one thing. Being able to function in an English-speaking society is another, and graduate students from UTSA are aiming
to help several Spanish-speakers on the Missions’ roster achieve both things. As part of a program designed by its major-league affiliate, the San Diego Padres, three Missions are taking English as a Second Language classes. “The importance of this program
is to give them awareness of another language and to help them immerse,” said Melissa Gomez, one of the program’s instructors. “That’s the whole point of the program — immersion. You don’t want to throw them in the water and hope they swim without some basic
skills on how to float.
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Dr.
Eunhee Chung, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition, was awarded an American Physiology Society (APS) Research Career Enhancement Award to attend a special workshop in Austria this fall. 
Dr.
Sharon Nichols, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, will travel to Finland to present her research at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction conference from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2. 
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