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Health

Medical, Dental Schools Are Seeing Fewer Minority Students in Their Ranks

Medical, Dental Schools Are Seeing Fewer Minority Students in Their Ranks DURHAM, N.C.As the academic year gets under way, the nation’s medical, dental and nursing schools are seeing fewer minorities in the classroom. The numbers are so low that a commission, led by former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, […]

October 8, 2003

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Multicultural Affairs in the Age of ‘Valuing Diversity’

Multicultural Affairs in the Age of ‘Valuing Diversity’The U.S. Supreme Court’s support of the University of Michigan’s “valuing educational diversity” rationale has ushered in a new age as multicultural and minority affairs units must evolve not only to meet this legal standard, but in many cases to justify their existence and do even more. Indeed, […]

September 24, 2003

Students

When Academia Meets Activism

When Academia Meets ActivismHarvard’s Color Lines conference draws nearly 1,000 participants to share new insights, data on the nation’s agenda on raceBy Ronald RoachCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Labor Day weekend is not the time of year one would expect hundreds of professors, graduate students and other education professionals to be encamped under a white tent at the Harvard […]

September 24, 2003

Students

Diversity: Here Today, More Tomorrow

Diversity: Here Today, More TomorrowROCKVILLE, Md.Haniee Chung, a 22-year-old spring honors graduate of Montgomery College, has an outlook on diversity that might sound strange to her elders.“We’re used to it,” she says. “Really, a lot of people my age don’t think about the question of diversity much at all.”Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings […]

September 24, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Truth and Consequences

Truth and ConsequencesIn the Michigan aftermath, the real fight begins as local institutions work to apply the Supreme Court ruling to meet their campuses’ individual needs and/or restrictionsBy Kendra HamiltonMonths prior to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases, anti-affirmative action forces had begun contesting scholarship programs, “transitional” programs, and […]

September 24, 2003

Leadership & Policy

UMKC Names Two Leaders for ‘Diversity in Action’ Initiative

UMKC Names Two Leaders for ‘Diversity in Action’ InitiativeKANSAS CITY, Mo.Officials at the University of Missouri-Kansas City have named two individuals to lead the next step of the university’s diversity initiative.Over the next 12 months, Dr. Joe Seabrooks and Darlene Scott-Scurry will lead the implementation of the university’s Diversity in Action Plan.Seabrooks, currently UMKC’s director […]

September 24, 2003

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New University of Michigan Undergrad Admissions

New University of Michigan Undergrad Admissions Policy Modeled After Law School’s ANN ARBOR, Mich.Race remains a factor in the University of Michigan’s new admissions policy that asks more detailed questions of applicants but doesn’t use a point system in an effort to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. “We continue to believe in gathering […]

September 24, 2003

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Court to Hear Mississippi College Desegregation Appeal

Court to Hear Mississippi College Desegregation Appeal JACKSON, Miss.A federal appeals court will hear arguments Nov. 3 on the settlement of Mississippi’s college desegregation case. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans was asked in March by attorney Alvin Chambliss to schedule a hearing on demands from plaintiffs opposed to last year’s […]

September 10, 2003

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Poll: 69 Percent Say Need for Affirmative Action In College Admissions Will End

Poll: 69 Percent Say Need for Affirmative Action In College Admissions Will End SAN FRANCISCOMost Americans agree that in 25 years, colleges and universities should no longer need to look at an applicant’s race to make sure there is racial and ethnic diversity on campus, a new poll finds. Seventy percent of respondents said they […]

September 10, 2003

Community Colleges

Committed to Open Access

Committed to Open Access By Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail The academic value of diversity has long been proven but is rarely given national attention other than in emotionally charged affirmative action debates. Such debates were at the heart of the wrangling over the University of Michigan admissions policies and the U.S. Supreme Court’s final ruling. […]

August 27, 2003

Leadership & Policy

An Overlooked Oasis?

An Overlooked Oasis? Education advocates say two-year institutions should not be considered an afterthought, but rather belong at the centerpiece of the nation’s higher education agendaBy Kendra HamiltonWhile the decision reached by the U.S. Supreme Court in June regarding the University of Michigan’s admissions policies is being rightly hailed by defenders of affirmative action and […]

August 27, 2003

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University of Texas Campuses Can Make The Choice on Affirmative Action

University of Texas Campuses Can Make The Choice on Affirmative Action SAN ANTONIOThe University of Texas Board of Regents earlier this month approved a policy that allows individual campuses within the UT System to decide whether to adopt affirmative-action criteria in admissions. Authority may be further decentralized to separate colleges and even academic departments within […]

August 27, 2003