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Are Our Voting Rights at Risk?

Are Our Voting Rights at Risk?Will African American voting rights expire in 2007? In this election year, as people are being exhorted to go to the polls to shape the direction of our country, an Internet rumor is circulating raising questions about the durability of the African American right to vote. The rumor has amazing […]

March 10, 2004

University of Michigan Sees 23 Percent Decline in Minority Applicants

University of Michigan Sees 23 Percent Decline in Minority Applicants ANN ARBOR, Mich. Seven months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the University of Michigan’s undergraduate affirmative action policy, the number of applications from Blacks, Hispanics and American Indians is down 23 percent from the same time last year. And the number of those […]

March 10, 2004

Leadership & Policy

New Guide Aims to Help Colleges Keep Diversity Efforts Within the Law

New Guide Aims to Help Colleges Keep Diversity Efforts Within the LawWASHINGTONThe College Board recently released an important new resource to help colleges and universities who are grappling with the issues of recruiting and admitting a diverse student body in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the University of Michigan cases. Specifically, […]

February 25, 2004

Court Denies Latest Appeal in Mississippi Desegregation Case

Court Denies Latest Appeal in Mississippi Desegregation CaseJACKSON, Miss.Mississippi’s marathon college desegregation case may have to clear one more legal hurdle before the state can move ahead with a settlement supporters say will help traditionally Black universities heal from decades of neglect.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans late last month denied […]

February 25, 2004

Saturday School

Saturday SchoolWriting in last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Grutter v. Bollinger affirmative action case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor surmised that in 25 years race-conscious affirmative action won’t be needed because disparities in educational performance between disadvantaged minorities and their White and Asian American peers will have been eliminated. Her conjecture on the […]

February 25, 2004

New Report Looks Closely at Resegregation of Schools

New Report Looks Closely at Resegregation of SchoolsCAMBRIDGE, Mass. In the past decade there has been a backward movement for desegregation in U.S. schools, especially for Latino and African American students, and particularly in the South, according to a new study on national resegregation trends in American public schools. The report, released by the Civil […]

February 11, 2004

‘Imagining Myself and Others’: A Tribute To Today’s Outstanding Young Scholars

‘Imagining Myself and Others’: A Tribute To Today’s Outstanding Young ScholarsEditor’s note: The following is excerpted from a speech delivered last spring to the Black Academic Surgeons Convention in Birmingham, Ala.Barreling toward the year 2004, no one can imagine me or you, very clearly. We are thought to represent something, and it is generally little […]

January 14, 2004

Study: Voucher Students Perform Same as Public School Peers

Study: Voucher Students Perform Same as Public School PeersCLEVELANDStudents in the Cleveland voucher program performed on the same level as their public school peers, according to the final part of a five-year Indiana University study. After tracking the test scores of 6,000 students from kindergarten through fourth grade, the researchers found virtually no difference in […]

January 14, 2004

NAACP to Proceed With Challenge to One Florida Initiative

NAACP to Proceed With Challenge to One Florida InitiativeBy Pearl StewartTALLAHASSEE, Fla.The NAACP will proceed with its challenge of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s controversial One Florida higher education initiative, as a result of a recent state Supreme Court ruling. The decision gives the civil rights organization the green light to continue its three-year legal battle […]

December 31, 2003

Admissions Controversy Embroils Berkeley Again

Admissions Controversy Embroils Berkeley AgainRegents chairman questions low-scoring SAT admits, leaks report to newspaperBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.Just when it seemed that the University of California was finally moving beyond divisions over race in admissions, a new controversy has erupted at the Berkeley campus, garnering an onslaught of headlines around the state and a rebuke for […]

December 31, 2003

Leadership & Policy

The Business of Academia

The Business of AcademiaHappy New Year! We are starting off 2004 with an edition about shared governance in academia. Are administration and faculty on the same page when it comes to shared governance and trust? What about historically Black colleges and universities versus traditionally White institutions?Assistant editor Kendra Hamilton takes a look at Dr. […]

December 31, 2003

The Highly Anticipated Year In Higher Education

The Highly Anticipated Year In Higher EducationI began my last Editor’s Note in 2002 with “2003 is gearing up to be a memorable year,” primarily because we knew by then that the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to hear the University of Michigan’s Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger cases, which supporters and opponents […]

December 17, 2003

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