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Leadership & Policy

Battle Lines Drawn Over Clinton’s Appointment of Black Judge to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals

Battle Lines Drawn Over Clinton’s Appointment of Black Judge to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals WashingtonP resident Clinton late last month appointed Virginia lawyer Roger Gregory to the all-White 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond.And it didn’t take long for conservative members of the U.S. Senate to undertake the task of keeping the […]

January 17, 2001

Alcorn State University plans new campus in Vicksburg

Alcorn State University plans new campus in VicksburgVicksburg, Miss.Officials at Alcorn State University are planning a Vicksburg campus, the school’s president says. Alcorn President Clinton Bristow Jr. announced the expansion plans last month during a talk to the Vicksburg Rotary Club. Alcorn State’s main campus is in Lorman, about an hour’s drive south of Vicksburg. […]

January 17, 2001

Federal Court Upholds U-Michigan’s Use of Race in Admissions

Federal Court Upholds U-Michigan’s Use of Race in AdmissionsBy Erik LordsDETROITSupporters of affirmative action across the nation are feeling upbeat after a judge’s ruling in federal court here upheld the University of Michigan’s use of race in admissions last month.The decision — which came just one week after an affirmative action victory in Washington State […]

January 3, 2001

UC System Has No Leeway to Consider Race in Admissions, Despite Recent Court Ruling

UC System Has No Leeway to Consider Race in Admissions, Despite Recent Court RulingBy Pamela BurdmanSAN FRANCISCOEven though two federal courts have cleared the way for admissions offices in other states to consider racial diversity, a recent decision by California’s Supreme Court suggests that the nation’s first university to voluntarily ban affirmative action has not […]

January 3, 2001

Judge Denies FAMU Restitution After Bombing

Judge Denies FAMU Restitution After BombingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. A federal judge has denied Florida A&M University’s request for $973,000 in restitution from a man convicted of two racially motivated bombings on the historically Black campus last year. In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle found the university is not entitled to compensation for […]

January 3, 2001

High Court Action Possible in Affirmative Action Case

High Court Action Possible in Affirmative Action CaseAlready facing criticism for its role in the Florida presidential recount, the U.S. Supreme Court soon may venture into another hot-button issue: affirmative action in college admissions.An appeal to the high court is the possible next step in a Washington state case that pits affirmative action advocates against […]

January 3, 2001

Officials Defend Mississippi Desegregation Suit Settlement Offer

Officials Defend Mississippi Desegregation Suit Settlement OfferJACKSON, Miss. Higher education officials and the Mississippi attorney general defended the state’s counteroffer to a desegregation suit settlement posed by advocates for Black universities. The state College Board offered plaintiffs in the 25-year-old Ayers case about $400 million last month, an amount that was half of what was […]

December 20, 2000

Minority Students May Be Star Witnesses in U-Michigan Affirmative Action Lawsuit

Minority Students May Be Star Witnesses in U-Michigan Affirmative Action LawsuitLandmark case could turn on their campus experiencesBy Erik LordsDETROITThe 17 Black and Hispanic students who last year won the right to intervene in an affirmative action lawsuit against the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor soon could be star witnesses in the controversial case, […]

December 6, 2000

Thurgood Marshall Fund Raises $5.7 Million, Beats Goal

Thurgood Marshall Fund Raises $5.7 Million, Beats GoalBy Cheryl D. FieldsNEW YORKWhen the goal is to prepare a new generation of leaders, money is often what distinguishes those with good intentions from those who are taking care of business. The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund let the world know last month that it is in the […]

November 22, 2000

U.S. Lawyers Ask Judges to Overturn Decision on UGA Admissions

U.S. Lawyers Ask Judges to Overturn Decision on UGA AdmissionsATLANTAIn a strongly worded appeal, lawyers for the federal government have urged an appeals court to overturn a decision against the University of Georgia’s use of race in its admissions. Officials at the U.S. Department of Justice say U.S. District Judge B. Avant Edenfield was wrong […]

November 22, 2000

Corporations Lend Support to U-Michigan’s Diversity Efforts

Corporations Lend Support to U-Michigan’s Diversity EffortsBy Hilary HurdANN ARBOR, Mich.Twenty of America’s largest and best-known corporations filed a legal brief here last month strongly supporting the University of Michigan in the lawsuit challenging its admissions policies. The brief argues that diversity in higher education plays a critical role in preparing students to be leaders […]

November 8, 2000

Lawyer Says He’ll Take Ole Miss Confederate Flag Ban to Supreme Court

Lawyer Says He’ll Take Ole Miss Confederate Flag Ban to Supreme CourtJACKSON, Miss. A lawyer for a White supremacist group says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw the University of Mississippi’s ban on Confederate flags at athletic events. Nationalist Movement lawyer Richard Barrett says the prohibition violates his First Amendment right to […]

November 8, 2000

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