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Backers of diversity are taking notice. Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit consortium of lawyers, provides 50 scholarships to minority undergraduates to attend a 16-session Kaplan LSAT course. Kaplan has set up a similar voucher program in California. The New York City-based Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund offers students at six historically black universities Princeton Review courses for $375--half the regular price. "In the short term," Sharlot says, "nothing could be more helpful in increasing the pool of competitive minority applicants than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course...
This system began with the "overlap group," a consortium of colleges that began meeting in 1958 to ensure that applicants receive similar aid offers from every school...
This collaboration was originally done by theOverlap Group, a consortium of schools which hadmet since 1958 to make sure students admitted toseveral schools received fairly similar aidpackages from each...
...transportation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. De Neufville reflects the orthodox view that markets, not mandates, should determine what is made and sold. That may be true, but it does nothing to solve the nation's pollution problems. Says Sheila Lynch, head of the Northeast Alternative Vehicle Consortium: "The government has to make the EV market happen, the same way it mandated air bags and catalytic converters...
...CONVINCE Consortium of North American Veterinary Interactive New Concept Education...