“You don’t have to have a life-altering moment to decide it’s time to give to cancer research,” said Fred Hutch Cancer Center legacy donor and volunteer Renee Hawkes. But for Hawkes, the moment was ...

A new law banning legacy and donor admissions at private California universities, including USC and Stanford — among the handful of schools that admit a significant number of children of alumni or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new effort to penalize campuses that give admissions preferences to children of alumni and donors could hit Stanford, above, and ...

California is the second state to ban legacy admissions at private universities. The first was Maryland. (Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law banning legacy and donor admissions at ...

Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants related to alumni or donors of the school under a new law signed this week by ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that prohibits private universities in the state from giving an admissions preference to relatives of donors or alumni. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ...

Lawmakers passed a bill this week that would make California one of the few states in the nation to ban private colleges and universities from considering an applicant’s legacy or donor connections ...