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Leadership & Policy

College Board Approves Ayers Funding

College Board Approves Ayers FundingJACKSON, Miss. The state College Board in November approved $59 million in funding for historically Black colleges, money that had been stalled pending an appeal of Mississippi’s college desegregation case. Board spokeswoman Sarah Nicholas said the proposal will be sent to lawmakers to consider during the 2005 Legislature. The money is […]

December 15, 2004

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U.S. Supreme Court Debates Use of Racial Segregation in Prisons

U.S. Supreme Court Debates Use of Racial Segregation in PrisonsWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court took up a racial segregation case last month that asks if Black California inmates are being unconstitutionally bunked together for months at a time, in the name of keeping prisons safe. The Bush administration has sided with a Black convicted killer who claims […]

December 1, 2004

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GOP Strengthens Control of Capitol Hill

GOP Strengthens Control of Capitol HillCongressional Black Caucus gains three new members; Senate gets first Black member since 1999By Charles DervaricsThe 2004 congressional elections will bring major changes in the House and Senate next year, with larger Republican majorities but also more African Americans on Capitol Hill.The GOP stands to gain four seats in the […]

December 1, 2004

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A Black and White Case

A Black and White Case: How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal ChallengeBy Greg StohrBloomberg Press, 2004352 pp., $26.95 hardcoverISBN 1-57660-170-6In the late 1990s, two lawsuits by White applicants who had been rejected by the University of Michigan began working their way through the federal court system, aimed at the abolition of racial preferences in […]

November 17, 2004

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Courts Recruit College Students to Advise People Who Don’t Have Lawyers

Courts Recruit College Students to Advise People Who Don’t Have LawyersLOS ANGELES The 300,000 litigants who come to court each year without lawyers in Los Angeles County are about to get help from a unique group of college students dubbed, “The Justice Corps.”Those who want to handle their own divorces, custody battles, landlord-tenant disputes and […]

November 17, 2004

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Judge Says Pluses Came From Mississippi’s College Desegregation Case

Judge Says Pluses Came From Mississippi’s College Desegregation CaseJACKSON, Miss.Afederal judge who presided over Mississippi’s college desegregation lawsuit says the main plus of the case is that the new admission standards are now such that Black students can easily attend any university in the state. However, U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. said the courts […]

November 17, 2004

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Ayers Case Ends After Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal

Ayers Case Ends After Supreme Court Refuses to Hear AppealJACKSON, MISS.The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a Mississippi college desegregation lawsuit, ending a 29-year-old legal battle over state support of three historically Black universities. Officials say the state can now enforce a $503 million settlement designed to correct past neglect […]

November 3, 2004

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University of Michigan Has Bigger Freshman Class, Fewer Black Students

University of Michigan Has Bigger Freshman Class, Fewer Black StudentsANN ARBOR, Mich. The number of Black  students in the freshman class at University of Michigan fell 14.6 percent compared to last year due to a decrease in Black applicants following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the school’s undergraduate affirmative action policy, the […]

November 3, 2004

Students

Celebrating the History And Contributions of Black Colleges

Celebrating the History And Contributions of Black CollegesBy Ronald Roach I’ll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesBy Juan Williams and Dwayne AshleyAmistad (Harper Collins), 2004pp. 480, $35.00, HardcoverISBN: 0-06-009453-2 In I’ll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, authors Juan […]

October 20, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Alvin Chambliss Joins Indiana University Faculty

Alvin Chambliss Joins Indiana University FacultyAttorney fought Mississippi desegregation case for 30 yearsBLOOMINGTON, Ind. Growing up poor as one of 12 children in Columbia, Miss., Alvin O. Chambliss Jr. sometimes went hungry but never lost his appetite for knowledge. “I can say that some of the times during my high school years I was hungry,” […]

October 20, 2004

Leadership & Policy

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy Still an Issue for Regents’ ElectionGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. More than a year has passed since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the University of Michigan’s undergraduate admissions policy as too formulaic because it awarded points based on race. But the decision remains an important issue to several people running in […]

October 20, 2004

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Federal Desegregation Case Allows Auburn to Meet Diversity Goals

Federal Desegregation Case Allows Auburn to Meet Diversity GoalsAUBURN, Ala. Black applicants to Auburn University are automatically admitted if they meet minimum requirements, while students of other races with similar credentials often face further review before admission, school officials said. The two-year-old procedure is not official university policy, which would require approval by trustees, but […]

October 20, 2004