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What Are Minority Serving Institutions?

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What’s a Minority Serving Institution (MSI)? The History of Minority Serving Institutions Prior to the mid-1960s, the costs and entry requirements for higher education were often designed to serve rich or middle-class white individuals, and, as a result, excluded many historically marginalized groups. Learn more about MSIs below.

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Ways to boost your leadership experience at CSU

Colorado State University

Colorado State has many avenues to help you explore leadership, including some that are built into your academic programs, or can be added on as concentrations or minors. If you join and participate in the program for the full three year, you’ll earn a minor in Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies to add to your academic degree. #3.

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How Will the Harvard Lawsuit Affect Affirmative Action in College Admissions?

Spark Admissions

What we now think of as “affirmative action” for demographic minorities, particularly racial minorities, emerged most clearly through President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s. The term has evolved since then, but this first use established a core idea of righting a discriminatory wrong.

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The Claremont Colleges: Harvey Mudd College

Ivy Central

All institutions have their own student body, faculty, governance, curricular emphasis, culture, and mission. These institutions share contiguous campuses in the Southern California city of Claremont. Their intercollegiate cooperation enables them to benefit from university-scale services and facilities.

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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Ivy Central

Most Popular Majors Economics Sociology Biology Political Science and Government Psychology Physiological Psychology Computational and Applied Mathematics English History Computer Science Minors UCLA offers more than 90 undergraduate minors.

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The Best Majors at Bowdoin

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The top ten declared majors are: Government and Legal Studies Economics Computer Science Mathematics Biology Neuroscience English Environmental Studies History Psychology All in all, “ About 30 percent of declared students choose majors within the humanities and fine arts division.”

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Most Popular Majors at Dartmouth

The Koppelman Group

The department also offers a minor. GOVERNMENT Dartmouth’s Department of Government offers both a major and a minor. Government and Political Science tend to be popular majors at Ivy League institutions. There is also a minor and an honors program.