Tag: College Admissions Scandal

Opinion

Remorse and the College Admission Scandal’s Stiffest Penalty to Date

Douglas Hodge, is the former CEO of Pimco, a company you might know about if you pay attention to your workplace retirement funds. PIMCO is one of the cornerstone investments  on the bond side, in other words, the safety play. You make your risky bets on the equity mutual funds. Bonds are like the sure thing. So of course you’d figure to see a guy like Hodge caught in the college admissions scandal.

February 11, 2020

International

Critics Question Validity of College-Prep Company

After facing difficulty applying to 25 different colleges in the U.S. and U.K., New Zealander Jamie Beaton launched his own company, Crimson Education, to provide consulting services for international students applying to elite American universities. Beaton, who started the company at age 17 in 2013, hires tutors who help students craft college essays and mentor […]

December 9, 2019

News Roundup

School Administrator Pleads Guilty in College Admissions Scandal

After rigging the test scores of children who came from affluent and powerful families, Igor Dvorskiy, administrator of a small school in West Hollywood, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit racketeering in a Boston courtroom yesterday according to a Los Angeles Times report. Dvorskiy admitted to pocketing nearly $150,000 from William “Rick” Singer, a Newport […]

November 13, 2019

News Roundup

Businessman Receives Prison Time for Role in College Admissions Scandal

Jeffrey Bizzack, a California businessman, was sentenced to two months in prison for his role in the college admissions scandal. Bizzack paid $250,000 to get his son admitted to the University of Southern California (USC) as a fake volleyball recruit. He is the 12th parent to be sentenced in the scandal and one of 10 […]

October 31, 2019

News Roundup

Felicity Huffman Sentenced to Prison for Role in Admissions Scandal

Actress Felicity Huffman, who pleaded guilty for her role in the college admissions scandal, was sentenced to 14 days in prison on Friday. Huffman is required to report to prison by Oct. 25. The former Desperate Housewives star  will also have to pay a fine of $30,000 and complete 250 hours of community service. In 2017, Huffman […]

September 13, 2019

Opinion

Smart While Black: How Systems of Bias Reproduce the Racial Status Quo

Measures of school outcomes show America’s educational system favors White and Asian children, often failing poor, Black, Latinx and Native American children long before college. Those efforts do not only result from a limited curriculum or lack of instructional rigor for children of color, particularly from poor and working-class communities, they result from concerted, targeted efforts to preserve the most coveted achievements for White children only – even when they do not deserve it.

August 23, 2019

Opinion

Ignoring Race and Privilege: How The College Board’s SAT Adversity Score Missed the Mark

Adverse experiences and social privilege are both life circumstances that can alter a test-taker’s score on standardized tests. However, the College Board, with their recent announcement of an “adversity score,” highlighted the disadvantages of adversity, while ignoring the advantages of privilege. In doing so, the College Board treats adversity as a handicap to be accommodated, while missing an opportunity to address a myriad of noncognitive factors that make SAT scores either lower or higher than they should be for different racial and ethnic groups, and socio-economic statuses.

June 11, 2019

Students

Redefining Merit

Following the college admissions scandal, countless thought pieces have addressed inequity in college admissions. Understandably, many are angry that wealthy families can literally buy their children into a university, while underrepresented, low-income students are seen as given unfair consideration when admitted to highly selective institutions. Too often, racially underrepresented low-income students are seen as “pity” admits — encouraged to depict their life-story as one in need of intervention from a particular college or university.

April 25, 2019

Students

An A+ Punishment for Felicity And Others: Create Cy Pres Awards. For Real.

Those pleading guilty in the college admissions scandal can donate large sums of money to a cy pres fund that benefits low-income kids and the non-elite small colleges that serve them.

April 9, 2019

News Roundup

Lori Loughlin and Husband Mossimo Giannulli Among Parents Facing Additional Charges in Admissions Scandal

Actress Lori Loughlin, best known for her role as Aunt Becky on the TV show, “Full House”, and 15 other wealthy parents now face additional charges of conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering as part of the national college admissions scandal. Prosecutors said the indictment charges the parents with conspiring to launder bribes and […]

April 9, 2019

HBCUs

Prof. Abdullah on the College Scandal, Black Studies After 50, HBCUs

“Black Studies is probably the most enduring victory of the Black Power Movement,” says Dr. Melina Abdullah. “It’s part of an institution that never wanted it. And so it means that the struggle is constant, because the institution is always trying to shut us down and kick us out. But it also is kind of a way of taking resources back. An education system that was intended for, you know the sons and daughter of the wealthy—that scandal that’s plagued the country.”

April 7, 2019

Students

College Admissions is a Regressive Tax on Low-Income Students

Recently, federal prosecutors charged dozens of wealthy parents with bribing college officials to ensure entry for their children into some of America’s most elite colleges and universities. As infuriating as those headlines may be, they are simply the byproduct of a college admissions industrial complex that risks cementing our social and career hierarchy based upon the accomplishments of 17-year-olds.

April 3, 2019