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A Year in Review: The Legal Survival of Race in College Admissions

The Legal Survival of Race in College AdmissionsLegal scholars, college admissions professionals and others made predictions about how the U.S. Supreme Court would rule on the University of Michigan’s two affirmative action cases. Though the predicted outcomes varied, all agreed the decisions would be historic. On April 1, the court heard opening arguments in both […]

December 17, 2003

Leadership & Policy

A Year in Review: Black Issues looks back over a year of educational highlights

A Year in  ReviewBlack Issues looks back over a year of educational highlightsTen years since the death of scholar athlete Arthur Ashe, 100 years since the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’ timeless The Souls of Black Folk — 2003 has been another memorable year.  But what probably most set the tone for the year ahead in higher […]

December 17, 2003

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Florida Court Says NAACP Can Challenge Anti-Affirmative Action Measures

Florida Court Says NAACP Can Challenge Anti-Affirmative Action MeasuresTALLAHASSEE, Fla.The Florida Supreme Court ruled last month that the NAACP can challenge the governor’s elimination of racial and gender preferences in state university admissions. The 4-3 ruling overturned a 2002 decision by the 1st District Court of Appeal that dismissed the civil rights group’s challenge to […]

December 17, 2003

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Court Hears Arguments in Mississippi College Desegregation Appeal

Court Hears Arguments in Mississippi College Desegregation AppealNEW ORLEANSThe $503 million settlement reached in the Mississippi college desegregation case is “unconstitutional, unreasonable and unfair” to the state’s three historically Black universities, a lawyer for plaintiffs opposed to the deal told a federal appeals court early last month.Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., representing alumni and faculty of […]

December 3, 2003

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New Affirmative Action Issues Expose Split U.S. Supreme Court

New Affirmative Action Issues Expose Split U.S. Supreme CourtWASHINGTONFresh off the divisive University of Michigan cases involving affirmative action in college admissions, a divided U.S. Supreme Court refused last month to consider the constitutionality of a Denver law that gives minority- and female-owned contractors a better chance at winning some contracts. The city had been […]

December 3, 2003

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Can The GOP Up The Ante?

Can The GOP Up The Ante?Some Political Scholars Challenge the Republican Party’s Quest For Black and Latino VotersBy Kendra HamiltonWhen Colin Powell took the podium at the 2000 GOP national convention, his words of apparent reconciliation — “The party must follow (Gov. Bush’s) lead in reaching out to minority communities, and particularly the African American […]

December 3, 2003

Leadership & Policy

On New Ground

On New GroundVeteran higher education leaders bring expertise and vision to two large public universities in the MidwestBy Ronald RoachThe 2003 Careers edition of Black Issues In Higher Education shines the spotlight on two of American higher education’s newest chief executives of multicampus universities in the Midwest. Breaking new ground as the first African American […]

November 19, 2003

HBCUs

Our Collective Responsibility To Black Males

Our Collective Responsibility To Black MalesAs he went through cold-bath fields he saw a solitary cell; and the devil was pleased, for it gave him a hint for improving his prisons in hell. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writer and poetIn Cambridge, Mass., a speaker on race relations asked these questions: “Where are our young African […]

November 5, 2003

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Little-Known Civil Rights Pioneer’s Papers Donated to UVa

Little-Known Civil Rights Pioneer’s Papers Donated to UVaCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.When Alice Jackson Stuart sent a handwritten letter to the administrators who rejected her application to the University of Virginia in 1935, she became one of the earliest but least-known pioneers of the civil rights movement. Stuart was the first Black person ever to apply to the […]

November 5, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Revisiting Black History, Examining Future Paradigms

Revisiting Black History, Examining Future ParadigmsSoulstepping: african american step showsBy Dr. Elizabeth C. FineUniversity of Illinois Press, 2003, 208 pp., $24.95 cloth, ISBN 0-252-02475-3Soulstepping documents the history of stepping, which is defined as a complex performance that melds folk traditions with popular culture and involves synchronized percussive movement, singing, chanting and drama. The author traces […]

October 22, 2003

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Seminar Examines Latest Research in African American Education

Seminar Examines Latest Research in African American EducationPRINCETON, N.J.Education and public affairs professionals from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region gathered at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) earlier this month to examine the latest research on the state of African American education. Looking at education from pre-school through post-graduate levels, participants investigated the public-policy implications of issues […]

October 22, 2003

Students

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]

October 8, 2003