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Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Dinner Raises Record $1.4 Million

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Dinner Raises Record $1.4 MillionNEW YORKDefying the odds in these tough economic times, the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund raised a record $1.4 million at its 14th Anniversary Awards Dinner, held at the Sheraton New York last month. Income from the dinner was reported to be 60 percent ahead of that raised […]

November 21, 2001

Moving Toward Reparations

Moving Toward ReparationsThe resurgence of the reparations movement is taking shape with Black leaders, intellectualsBy Ronald Roach In 1998, historically Black Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, Fla., answered the Clinton administration’s call for colleges and universities to sponsor race relations discussions and events in support of President Clinton’s National Conversation on Race initiative. The Bethune-Cookman program, […]

November 7, 2001

Brown University Inaugurates New President, Ruth Simmons

Brown University Inaugurates New President, Ruth SimmonsPROVIDENCE, R.I.Brown University’s new president has risen to the pinnacle of academia from humble beginnings, inspired along the way by her teachers. So it was no surprise when Dr. Ruth J. Simmons encouraged those at her inauguration last month to value the excellence of teaching and learning, even encouraging […]

November 7, 2001

Not Your Average Affirmative Action Program

Not Your Average Affirmative Action ProgramThe decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in Bakke v. Board of Regents recognizes diversity in higher education as a compelling interest that will permit a public university to consider race as a factor in a competitive admissions process. Opponents of affirmative action programs in higher education have mounted […]

October 24, 2001

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Confederate Flag-Waving Appeal

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Confederate Flag-Waving AppealWASHINGTONA legal effort to resurrect the waving of Confederate battle flags at college football games in Mississippi died earlier this month in the Supreme Court. The court declined to take the appeal of a flag-carrying spectator who had been asked to leave a University of Mississippi football game […]

October 24, 2001

Attorney to Pursue Racial Profiling Case, Despite High Court Ruling

Attorney to Pursue Racial Profiling Case, Despite High Court RulingONEONTA, N.Y. An attorney says a group of young African American men will pursue their legal battle accusing the police and State University of New York at Oneonta officials of racial profiling. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not hear the 1993 […]

October 24, 2001

Leadership & Policy

What Lies Ahead for Michigan’s Affirmative Action Cases?

What Lies Ahead for Michigan’s Affirmative Action Cases?Many wonder what Bollinger’s departure will mean for the battle to preserve the university’s admissions policiesBy Erik LordsANN ARBOR, Mich.When University of Michigan president Lee Bollinger confirmed earlier this month that he will become Columbia University’s next president, it triggered speculation about who will replace the popular leader […]

October 24, 2001

Timeline of Change

Timeline of ChangeFebruary 2000 Florida board of regents adopts Gov. Jeb Bush’s One Florida Plan, which eliminates the use of affirmative action policies in admissions in the state in exchange for a system giving special consideration to students who demonstrate economic or educational disadvantage. One Florida also guarantees admission to high school students who rank in […]

October 10, 2001

What’s in FAMU’S FUTURE?

What’s in FAMU’S FUTURE? With Its Leadership in transition, Will the country’s top producer of Black undergraduates sustain its momentum ?By Cheryl D. FieldsTallahassee, Fla.s unsettling as it can be, change is one of the inevitabilities of the human condition. It can present torrents of unimaginable horrors as easily as it can serve up blue […]

October 10, 2001

UGA Passes Up Chance to Appeal Admissions Policy Decision

UGA Passes Up Chance to Appeal Admissions Policy DecisionSchool officials are still considering Supreme Court action.ATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia has only one option left — the U.S. Supreme Court — if it will appeal a federal court ruling that declared its admissions policy unconstitutional because it considers race. Georgia let a Sept. 17 deadline […]

October 10, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Southern University Raises Admissions Standards With Little Fallout

Southern University Raises Admissions Standards With Little FalloutBut Baton Rouge Community College experiences 70 percent enrollment jump.By Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, LaLast summer, when Southern University was poised to raise its admission standards as part of a federal desegregation settlement, school officials were bracing for a loss of 700 students — or about 8 percent of […]

October 10, 2001

NAACP Asks University of Georgia Not to Appeal

NAACP Asks University of Georgia Not to Appeal Admissions Policy DecisionATHENS, Ga.The Georgia NAACP says it will ask the University of Georgia not to appeal a federal court ruling that said the school’s admissions policy is unconstitutional because it gives non-White students a statistical boost. Attorneys for the civil rights group said earlier this month […]

September 26, 2001

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