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Photo illustration by The Chronicle Four young scholars met at a conference in 2013, and decided they’d stick together, forming a group to see one another through the stresses and successes of being early career academics. All were Black, and they shared a research interest: counseling and psychology. One by one, the group’s members reached the milestone that cements any academic career: tenure. Two went up for tenure in 2018, a third last spring. This year was to be Paul C. Harris’s tur...

Applications surge after big-name colleges halt SAT and ACT testing rules Nick Anderson © Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post People wearing masks walk across the Lawn at the University of Virginia on Sept. 7, 2020 The University of Virginia drew a record 48,000 applications for the next class in Charlottesville — about 15 percent more than the year before. Freshman applications to the University of California at Berkeley crossed into six figures for the first time, t...