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Taking Supreme Action

Taking Supreme Action Michigan proceedings offer some hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will affirm the use of race in academic admissions, say affirmative action proponents. But critics are more skeptical.By Ronald Roach WASHINGTONFollowing the oral arguments heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in the University of Michigan cases earlier this month, affirmative action proponents […]

April 23, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Virginia Tech Reverses Decision on Affirmative Action

Virginia Tech Reverses Decision on Affirmative Action BLACKSBURG, Va. A month after the Black alumni of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, as well as others, expressed disapproval of the university’s board of visitors’ decision to bar the consideration of race and gender in campus admissions, hiring and financial aid processes, the board restored its […]

April 23, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Education Department Highlights ‘Race-Neutral’ Admissions Initiatives

Education Department Highlights ‘Race-Neutral’ Admissions InitiativesAmericans should not look to achieve diversity through affirmative action, secretary saysBy Charles Dervarics Americans should not look to achieve diversity through affirmative action and other “shortcuts that divide us by race,” says U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige as he mounts a new Bush administration campaign to showcase ‘race-neutral’ approaches […]

April 23, 2003

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’ April 1st started out as a rainy, dreary day but that didn’t dampen the spirits of all of the people — young and old — who descended on the U.S. Supreme Court, carrying signs and banners, in support of affirmative action. Student and alumni associations representing a variety of colleges and universities […]

April 23, 2003

Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case

Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case WashingtonA panel of legal scholars and social science experts that have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of maintaining the University of Michigan’s affirmative action programs laid out the legal framework for allowing the continuation of race-conscious programs to reporters at a press briefing in […]

April 9, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Coalition Challenges Virginia Tech Ban on Affirmative Action

Coalition Challenges Virginia Tech Ban on Affirmative ActionBLACKSBURG, Va. Black alumni of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) were joined by Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and others last month in expressing disapproval of the university’s board of visitors decision to bar the consideration of race and gender in the campus admissions, hiring and […]

April 9, 2003

Ayers Plaintiffs Ask Appeals Court to Throw Out Desegregation Pact

Ayers Plaintiffs Ask Appeals Court to Throw Out Desegregation PactJACKSON, Miss.A federal appeals court has been asked to throw out the settlement of Mississippi’s college desegregation case and start the process from step one. Attorney Alvin Chambliss asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to schedule a hearing on demands from […]

March 26, 2003

Affirmative Action Policies Gain Washington Boosters

Affirmative Action Policies Gain Washington BoostersHigher education groups, lawmakers show support for the University of Michigan in friend-of-the-court brief By Charles Dervarics Higher education organizations, including those representing Black colleges, have filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the University of Michigan’s affirmative action program that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Associations representing a broad […]

March 26, 2003

Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities

Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities COLUMBIA, Mo.The University of Missouri at Columbia is sticking by its Transitions program for incoming minority students, even as other schools change or eliminate their programs in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case.“The Transitions program is specially designed to increase […]

March 12, 2003

State Attorney General Stops Ohio State’s Plans to Back Michigan

State Attorney General Stops Ohio State’s Plans to Back Michigan COLUMBUS, OhioAttorney General Jim Petro has nixed plans by Ohio State University to file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies. Petro refused to sign the “friend of the court brief,” as required by state […]

March 12, 2003

Colleges Prepare for Possible End to Affirmative Action

Colleges Prepare for Possible End to Affirmative ActionInterest in alternatives to race-conscious admissions high at Quality Education for Minorities conferenceBy Cheryl D. Fields WASHINGTON With the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing of arguments in the University of Michigan’s affirmative action cases only weeks away, the tone of the annual Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) conference held […]

March 12, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Freedom of Inquiry Requires Diversity

Freedom of Inquiry Requires DiversityBy Dr. Mac A. Stewart One of the last political stories of 2002 was the fall of Mississippian Trent Lott from his role as majority leader of the U.S. Senate, a result of ill-chosen comments at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday celebration. Many lessons can be drawn from this incident, but one […]

February 26, 2003

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