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An Eclectic Mix: From Affirmative Action to Mali
An Eclectic Mix: From Affirmative Action to Mali As we await the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, along with the rest of the higher education community, we decided to use what could be our last edition before the Court delivers a ruling this summer to explore “class-based” or economic affirmative action. The Bush […]
June 18, 2003
Students
A Time for Innovative Thinking
A Time for Innovative ThinkingIn a recent article in Black Issues In Higher Education, a U.S. Department of Education official stated that he knew of few strategies for making graduate and professional school accessible to African Americans. Since I knew of at least one (I developed it), I e-mailed it to him. He remarked on […]
June 4, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Labor of Love
Labor of LoveLaw professors’ study provides new weapons in fighting job discriminationBy Ben HammerRuth and Alfred “Al” Blumrosen have worked for almost 50 years to improve labor conditions in this country and around the world. And despite recently buying a beach house in Naples, Fla., the couple, law professors at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., […]
June 4, 2003
Health
Commission Convened to Diversify U.S. Healthcare Work Force
Commission Convened to Diversify U.S. Healthcare Work Force DURHAM, N.C.Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, has convened a commission that will address the nation’s health gap by focusing attention on the number of underrepresented minorities among the nation’s health professions. The Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, […]
May 21, 2003
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Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action
Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action By Charles DervaricsRace-conscious college admissions hurt low-income minority students by pitting them against more affluent African American and Latino youth who could afford college anyway, U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige says. In his latest effort to push race-neutral college admissions, Paige told an Education Department conference audience that race-conscious admissions […]
May 21, 2003
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Workplace 2003: What’s Next For Graduating Seniors?
Workplace 2003: What’s Next For Graduating Seniors?By Julianne Malveaux As the University of Michigan affirmative action cases snake their way through the Supreme Court deliberation process, many students are concerned not just with getting into college, but what happens when they get out? Those graduating in 2003 face an economy far more sluggish than the […]
May 7, 2003
Health
Study Documents Domestic Violence by Race, Income
Study Documents Domestic Violence by Race, Income PROVIDENCE, R.I.Black and Hispanic women, especially Black women in more affluent neighborhoods, are overrepresented in police-reported domestic violence information compiled by the Rhode Island Department of Health, according to a new analysis published in the journal Public Health Reports. Four Brown University researchers found that although Black and […]
May 7, 2003
Health
The Health of the Nation: Why Affirmative Action Is Needed In Medical School Admissions
The Health of the Nation: Why Affirmative Action Is Needed In Medical School AdmissionsBy Dr. Charles Terrell As we begin to consider possible U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the University of Michigan cases, we seem to miss the point on how truly devastating a ruling that makes race-conscious decisions unlawful would be for our society. […]
April 23, 2003
Students
Overcoming the Black-White Achievement Gap
Overcoming the Black-White Achievement Gap Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement By John U. Ogbu Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., 2003352 pp., $69.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8058-4515-1, $32.50 paper, ISBN 0-8058-4516-XBy Ronald Roach The affirmative action debate brought on by the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of the reverse discrimination lawsuits filed […]
April 23, 2003
African-American
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]
April 23, 2003
African-American
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]
April 23, 2003
African-American
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]
April 23, 2003
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