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Military

Fifty Female Cadets Report To The Citadel

Fifty Female Cadets Report To The CitadelCHARLESTON, S.C.This year 50 women were among those reporting to The Citadel last month. It is the largest class of freshmen women to enroll at the state military college. The cadet corps of about 1,950 will have a total of about 125 women, or about 6 percent of the […]

September 11, 2002

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Attorney Says State Is Holding Up Mississippi’s Desegregation Money

Attorney Says State Is Holding Up Mississippi’s Desegregation MoneyJACKSON, Miss.An attorney representing those opposed to Mississippi’s college desegregation settlement says opposition could end if the state gave majority Black schools what they deserve. “It is disingenuous to say Al Chambliss is causing the problem,” Alvin Chambliss Jr. said last month. “It is the state of […]

September 11, 2002

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs: An Educational System at the Crossroads

HBCUs: An Educational System at the CrossroadsToday, the 105 historically Black colleges and universities are facing a paradigm shift that will inevitably determine their fate in the 21st century. Their roles have changed tremendously since the first campuses — Lincoln University, founded by the Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania in 1854, and Wilberforce University, founded by […]

August 28, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Secrets of the Presidential Turn-Around: An Alum to the Rescue

An Alum to the RescueDr. Henry Nehemiah Tisdale Claflin UniversityWhen Dr. Henry Nehemiah Tisdale assumed the presidency of Claflin University in 1994, the small historically Black institution had an unremarkable reputation. Founded in 1869 with the help of Methodist missionaries, Claflin is the oldest HBCU in the state of South Carolina. During its first century, it […]

August 28, 2002

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Supreme Court Asked To Hear University Of Michigan Case

Supreme Court Asked To Hear University Of Michigan CaseANN ARBOR, Mich.A group that sued to overturn minority preferences in University of Michigan law school admissions has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled 5-4 on May 14 that the Michigan law school’s […]

August 28, 2002

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University of Georgia Continues To Retool Admissions Policy

University of Georgia Continues To Retool Admissions PolicyBut still no consideration of raceATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia’s fall 2003 admissions policy will emphasize applicants’ academic achievement, with some modifications from the fall 2002 process, according to UGA officials. But the new policy still will not consider race.Last year, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]

August 28, 2002

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Blacks Are in a State of Emergency

Blacks Are in a State of EmergencyIt is becoming ever more unpopular for me to assert that I am an African American. It appears that I would have more fans if I would just accept myself as a “diversity.” But, I am not a “diversity,” I am not a “multiculturalism,” and I am not a […]

July 31, 2002

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Writing for Pleasure and Profit

Writing for Pleasure and ProfitLaw professor spins a tale of mystery, sex and intrigue to the tune of a $4.2 million book dealStephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell professor of law at Yale University, has stepped through the looking glass, and the world is looking “curiouser and curiouser” from the other side.The change in […]

July 17, 2002

Students

Court Decision on Vouchers Draws Praise, Criticism

Court Decision on Vouchers Draws Praise, CriticismThe U.S. Supreme Court’s narrow decision favoring school vouchers is triggering an intense debate about the future of public education.In a 5-4 ruling, the high court found a Cleveland school voucher program constitutional. Proponents called the ruling potentially as important as the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, […]

July 17, 2002

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All About Access

All About AccessDespite the fact that most students and teachers are at least a month away from returning to the classroom, the last few weeks have been active ones in terms of education policy.Noteworthy, of course, was the Supreme Court’s approval, in a 5-4 decision, of the use of tax dollars for school vouchers, and […]

July 17, 2002

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Federal Court Upholds UW Law School’s Use of Race

Federal Court Upholds UW Law School’s Use of RaceSEATTLEA federal judge has ruled that the University of Washington Law School didn’t illegally discriminate against three White applicants when it denied them admission in the mid-1990s. As a result, Katuria Smith, Angela Rock and Michael Pyle — who became poster children for the campaign to pass […]

July 3, 2002

HBCUs

Teachers College Honors Civil Rights Pioneers

Teachers College Honors Civil Rights PioneersNEW YORKGraduates of Columbia University’s Teachers College were reminded last month of the lasting importance of the civil rights movement and its influence on the struggle for equity in education. The university used the 2002 Master’s Convocation setting to honor several important leaders who played crucial roles in shaping America’s […]

June 19, 2002