July 27, 2007

In Brief

DECLINING DIVERSITY: Raising admissions standards at the University of Nevada appears to have reduced diversity, especially on the Las Vegas campus, according to a report by the Nevada System of Higher Education. From the fall of 2005 to the fall of 2006 the number of black students admitted to Las Vegas declined by 26.2 percent, Hispanic admittees by 18 percent, and American Indian admittees by 62.1 percent, the report said. (The number of non-Hispanic white students admitted also fell, but

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