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In this April 6, 2018 photo, students walk past Holbrook Hall on the campus of Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass. The school shut down weeks later, one of several private colleges that have closed due to financial pressure. Officials in New England have been looking into increasing their oversight of the schools to help protect students. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via AP)

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States look to boost oversight of struggling small colleges

by Lisa Rathke Associated Press, and Collin Binkley Associated PressFebruary 13, 2019

A screen with information from the Women’s Law Project shows some of the proposed changes to the implementation of Title IX at the NOW meeting in Monaca, Pa.

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Rule could limit college response to off-campus sex assaults

by Collin Binkley Associated PressFebruary 12, 2019

President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during a roundtable discussion on the Federal Commission on School Safety report, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump panel seeks to revoke school discipline rules

by Collin Binkley Associated PressDecember 18, 2018

In this March 7, 2017, photo, rowers paddle down the Charles River past the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge. Several fraternities and sororities are suing Harvard University over a 2016 rule that discourages students from joining single-gender clubs.

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Fraternities, sororities sue Harvard over single-sex rule

by Collin Binkley Associated PressDecember 3, 2018

FILE - In this March 7, 2017 file photo, rowers paddle down the Charles River past the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A lawsuit alleging racial discrimination against Asian American applicants in Harvard's admissions process is heading to trial in Boston's federal court on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Harvard denies any discrimination, saying it considers race as one of many factors when considering applicants. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Harvard: Race can only help, never harm, applicants’ chances

by Collin Binkley Associated PressOctober 15, 2018

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian during an interview at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. Le Drian said France's leaders are proposing a new international coalition to revive global cooperation that they say is being threatened by countries like the United States and Russia. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

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France calls for new global coalition of ‘goodwill powers’

by Collin Binkley Associated PressSeptember 28, 2018

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The Justice Department has sided with Asian-American students suing Harvard University over the Ivy League school's consideration of race in its admissions policy. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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Government accuses Harvard of ‘outright racial balancing’

by Maria Danilova Associated Press, Collin Binkley Associated Press, and Eric Tucker Associated PressAugust 30, 2018

FILE - In this March 7, 2017, file photo, rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Mass. A 2018 lawsuit alleging bias at Harvard's admissions office is pulling back the curtain on the secretive, complex process that decides who gets a place at one of the world's most selective institutions. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Suit alleging bias pulls back curtain on Harvard admissions

by Collin Binkley Associated PressJuly 9, 2018

FILE - In this May 26, 2017, file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the commencement address at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. Clinton is scheduled to be the speaker at Yale's class day on Sunday, May 20, 2018. An Associated Press analysis found that two-thirds of the speakers at the nation's 25 wealthiest colleges' ceremonies in spring 2018 are women for the first time in at least two decades. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

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More colleges host women as grad speakers

by Collin Binkley Associated PressMay 9, 2018

Fairview Middle and High School students taking part in a national school walkout event to protest gun violence and honor shooting victims at Fairview High School in Fairview Township, Erie County, Pa., Friday April 20, 2018. As part of the event, most of the students walked twice around the Keck Field running track twice. Protests were planned across the country Friday, on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting. (Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News via AP)

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Protesting students look to turn outrage to action

by Collin Binkley Associated PressApril 20, 2018