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Supreme Court Declines to Review Affirmative Action Case

Supreme Court Declines to Review Affirmative Action CaseDecision leaves education observers wondering when Court will revisit the issueBy Ronald A. TaylorWASHINGTONThe U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to let stand a federal appeals court ruling on the University of Washington law school’s now-revised admissions policy left affirmative action advocates applauding, quota opponents grumbling and both […]

June 20, 2001

Students

Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:With colleges and universities increasingly changing many of their retention, scholarship and other programs from targeting only African American students, what can I do as an administrator to keep my university committed to increasing their Black student enrollment and graduation rates?Dr. Donnie Perkins,Dean and DirectorOffice of Affirmative Action and DiversityNortheastern UniversityBostonIf not […]

June 6, 2001

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Minority Bachelor’s Degrees on the Rise:

Minority Bachelor’s Degrees on the Rise:Number of African American Bachelor’s Degree Holders Tops 100,000 by Phaedra Brotherton In the 1999-2000 academic year, the number of African Americans earning bachelor’s degrees topped the 100,000 mark — coming in at 103,874, an increase of 8,350 degrees, or 8.74 percent, over 1997-1998 figures. After promising gains in 1997-1998 […]

June 6, 2001

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Dealing With Hate on the Internet

Dealing With Hate on the InternetSome Web sites may cause you to shudder from the deepest part of your being. You can read, view and hear some of the most malicious and inflammatory material imaginable. You’ll find blatant racism, anti-Semitism, Christianity bashing, homophobia and more — all designed to pit people against one another.Then there […]

May 23, 2001

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Philanthropic Forklift Driver Uplifts Through Giving

Philanthropic Forklift Driver Uplifts Through GivingBy Erik LordsDETROITAt age 80, Mat Dawson Jr. of Detroit is still active, is in good health and works the same full-time job he started 60 years ago. His spirits are high nearly every day, but he already knows exactly what he wants engraved on his tombstone: “Gone but not […]

May 9, 2001

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High Court Decision Expected to Chill Future Civil Rights Suits

High Court Decision Expected to Chill Future Civil Rights SuitsWASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent reversal of two lower court decisions in a lawsuit challenging a state’s English-only policy is expected to have a chilling effect on other types of civil rights lawsuits, including those aimed at challenging higher education policies that yield a discriminatory […]

May 9, 2001

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Texas Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Hopwood Case

Texas Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Hopwood CaseAUSTIN, Texas Texas Attorney General John Cornyn asked the U.S. Supreme Court last month to review the landmark Hopwood ruling that led to a ban on race-based policies for admissions, financial aid and scholarships at the state’s public universities. “This is probably the last chance to get […]

May 9, 2001

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Black Male Students: Not Giving In, Not Tiring Out

Black Male Students: Not Giving In, Not Tiring OutI’m sick and tired of being sick and tired — Fannie Lou HamerFour recent implication-laden events in the legal arena remind us how perilous “our gains” can be. They are: 1) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federally funded state agencies may not be sued over policies […]

May 9, 2001

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Warding Off Internet Legal Woes

Warding Off Internet Legal WoesAs the Internet becomes ever more integrated into the economy, the old club atmosphere has given way to a more adversarial environment. While some disputes are still resolved by discussion and consensus, you’re more likely to see someone call in the lawyers.Legal battles are nothing new to the larger computer world. […]

April 25, 2001

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Jesse Jackson Urges Students to Fight University of Michigan Ruling

Jesse Jackson Urges Students to Fight University of Michigan RulingANN ARBOR, Mich.After a federal judge ordered the University of Michigan law school to stop using race in its admissions policies, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urged students at a campus rally to fight the ruling. Jackson told hundreds of students at an afternoon rally early this […]

April 25, 2001

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Reinventing Howard’s Law School

Reinventing Howard’s Law SchoolDean Alice Gresham Bullock is determined to keep the nation’s oldest historically Black law school relevant to 21st century realities. By Gwendolyn GlennWASHINGTONWhen Alice Gresham Bullock was named dean of the Howard University School of Law in 1997, beating out candidates such as Harvard University’s Charles Ogletree, not everyone was pleased. Some […]

April 11, 2001

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University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy Rejected Judge rules diversity is not a compelling state interest

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy Rejected Judge rules diversity is not a compelling state interestBy Erik LordsDETROITMany national leaders expressed shock and disappointment late last month after a U.S. District Judge in Detroit ruled that the University of Michigan’s race-conscious law school admissions policy is unconstitutional. Lawyers for the University of Michigan and a group […]

April 11, 2001