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“By filing a request to withdraw our petition today, we seek to preserve the precedent set by this exceptional group of young people on the men’s varsity basketball team,” local president Chris Peck said in a statement to the Associated Press.
To set the record straight, UAGC is committed to providing online higher education for non-traditional students, including working adults, military personnel, parents, and underserved communities.
Six GOP members of Congress, including Virginia Foxx, a North Carolinian and former chair of the House education committee, blasted the concept in a letter to Secretary Miguel Cardona in August.
“There was a lot of big money involved in this, and you have the booster clubs of alumni that made major contributions to men’s sports teams,” said Cynthia Brown, deputy director of the Office for Civil Rights at the time.
That’s what it feels like to finally decide to correct the bad governance, insufficient and ineffective policies, and rogue accounts that are keeping your identity and access management (IAM) solutions from working the way they’re supposed to.
Foxx's statement noted that the Republican-majority House passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in April 2023, which states that in the athletic context, sex is recognized as "based only on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth."
The Department of Homeland Security seal on a podium at the Ronald Reagan Building on Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington, D.C. DHS published a final rule this week updating H-1B visa requirements.
A comprehensive IAM strategy could be the best defense against cybercrime targeting higher ed institutions, but without proper governance and insight into users and their identities, university IT departments could leave themselves vulnerable to threats.
When Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion striking down race-conscious admissions, he said in a footnote that military academies were exempted from the ruling because they had “potentially distinct interests” from civilian colleges.
A typical response was “Hmm … that’s a good question,” “I’m not familiar with that program” or “I’ll have to ask my supervisor.” Many administrators had detailed knowledge of institutional policies governing AP or CLEP exams but were wholly unfamiliar with the GED college-readiness designations.
Customers are parties who are viewed as needing to be appealed to by vendors who seek to understand what a group of people are interested in and then set out to, ideally, offer a product at an attractive cost (i.e., price) to gain market acceptance and patronage.
In the program, students may view video-based instruction on Chromebooks in a lab, with an instructor present to answer questions, or spend time opening and closing circuits to direct power in a ballroom the school converted into a data center training facility.