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Health

Symposium Highlights Need for Diversity in Health Professions

Symposium Highlights Need for Diversity in Health ProfessionsBy Ronald RoachWASHINGTON Organizers of a health professions symposium on diversity last month placed considerable emphasis on education reform and minority academic achievement research. As a result, nationally recognized scholars and higher education officials urged nearly 300 symposium participants to familiarize themselves with academic achievement research and to […]

April 11, 2001

HBCUs

Continuing the Legacy, but Looking Ahead to the Future

Continuing the Legacy, but Looking Ahead to the FutureWith a recent decision in the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions case, (Grutter v. Bollinger et. al.), declaring that the use of race as a factor in college admissions is unconstitutional, it seems appropriate that this edition of Black Issues In Higher Education features one of […]

April 11, 2001

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History Professor Creates Database of African Genealogy

History Professor Creates Database of African GenealogySTORRS, Conn. Dr. G. Ugo Nwokeji, an assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut, is attempting to help people of African descent form a clearer picture of their collective past. Nwokeji and a fellow researcher are compiling a database of information about more than 80,000 Africans who […]

March 28, 2001

African-American

Harvard Establishes a Digital Divide Program in Boston

Harvard Establishes a Digital Divide Program in BostonBostonLast fall, news of the sale of Africana.com to the AOL Time Warner company generated considerable attention for Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies, and Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor in the university’s Afro-American Studies Department, who were founders and […]

February 28, 2001

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UGA Experiences Decline Among Black Applicants

UGA Experiences Decline Among Black Applicants ATHENS, Ga. Fewer than 900 Black high school seniors have applied for admission to the University of Georgia this fall — a drop of almost 20 percent from last year. Just 897 Black seniors had applied by Feb. 1, down from 1,100 who had applied by Feb. 1, 2000. […]

February 28, 2001

Students

National Association of Scholars Cheer CUNY Changes, Decry Affirmative Action During Conference

National Association of Scholars Cheer CUNY Changes, Decry Affirmative Action During ConferenceBy Ronald RoachNew YorkAlthough members of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) consider the elimination of open admissions at the 11 senior colleges in the City University of New York system a victory in view of the group’s conservative mission, speakers and panelists at […]

January 31, 2001

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UT Asks for New Hearing in Race-Conscious Admissions Case

UT Asks for New Hearing in Race-Conscious Admissions CaseAUSTIN The University of Texas is asking a federal court to speed up the appeal of a lowercourt ruling that bars raced-conscious admissions at public universities. University lawyers said last month that they are asking the full 14-member 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans […]

January 31, 2001

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Court Rules Jackson State Cannot Justify Law School

Court Rules Jackson State Cannot Justify Law SchoolJACKSON, Miss. A federal judge overseeing Mississippi’s long-running college desegregation suit says historically Black Jackson State University cannot justify the need for a new law school. The ruling, by U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr., comes as parties continue settlement talks in the case. The law school, which […]

January 31, 2001

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President-elect Bush’s Great Opportunity

President-elect Bush’s Great Opportunity By C. Peter MagrathPresident-elect Bush has a marvelous opportunity to confound his critics and truly unify the nation — in a way precisely opposite to the actions of Rutherford B. Hayes, who gained the presidency in the disputed election of 1876.Consider first the striking parallels between the 1876 election in which […]

January 17, 2001

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Will Education Be Bushwhacked?

Will Education Be Bushwhacked?What will the George W. Bush presidency mean for educational issues? Whatever he does, we know the voucher issue is high on his agenda. Conservatives aren’t the only ones to embrace vouchers. A Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies survey says that increasing numbers of African Americans — as many as […]

January 17, 2001

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NAACP Files Brief Against “One Florida” Plan

NAACP Files Brief Against “One Florida” PlanBy Pearl StewartTallahasse, Fla.T he Election 2000 fiasco had barely simmered down when Floridians were reminded of another battle being fought in the state’s courts — Gov. Jeb Bush’s “One Florida” plan.In late December, the Florida NAACP filed a 58-page brief with the state appeals court in Tallahassee aimed […]

January 17, 2001

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Michigan Law School Prepares for Historic Affirmative Action Trial

Michigan Law School Prepares for Historic Affirmative Action Trial By Erik LordsDetroit When an affirmative action lawsuit against the University of Michigan’s law school goes to trial here this month, it will be thick with historical significance.Lawyers for a group of intervening minority students in the case will present an unprecedented legal argument, and they […]

January 17, 2001