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Community Colleges

BI News Briefs

Judge Allows Students to Help Defend Georgia’s Admissions PolicyATHENS, Ga. — Several students concerned about the state’s efforts to defend the University of Georgia against a high-profile lawsuit alleging discrimination in the school’s admissions policy have added themselves as defendants in the case.Ken Dious, an attorney here who represents the students, some of whom are […]

January 19, 2000

College By the Numbers

College By the Numbers When I was provost of the University of Michigan, the medical school had a student prize for medical diagnosis: the “S.S.W. Award.” The initials stood for “swift, sure and wrong.”I am reminded of it when I hear reports celebrating Texas’ “10 percent solution” — its experiment in maintaining diversity in its […]

January 19, 2000

As Different as Day and Night

As Different as Day and NightMissouri’s historically Black Lincoln University, now predominantly White, searches for a way to bring its two divergent populations together.JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — There’s a saying here at Lincoln University: “White by day, Black by night.” A hilly, picturesque campus with 3,343 students enrolled this fall, Lincoln was founded by Black Civil […]

January 5, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Workload

Faculty WorkloadRuled Non-Negotiable in OhioWILBERFORCE, Ohio — The Central State University faculty union has lost a lengthy court battle concerning its right to bargain over professors’ workload.The Ohio Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision, ruled in late October that a 1993 law requiring professors at that state’s public universities to spend more time in the […]

November 24, 1999

Washington Briefs

High Court Hears Controversial Fees CaseWASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month heard arguments in a case that may have major implications for campus-based organizations that represent students of color.The case focuses on the University of Wisconsin and its policy of collecting mandatory fees from students — money the university ultimately uses to […]

November 24, 1999

Putting Oklahoma in Context

Putting Oklahoma in ContextThe great risk as the backlash to affirmative action continues is that schools will decide to give up their goals of racial diversity, not that they will be forced to do so. They may retreat prematurely, in some instances without much regret for programs they had adopted begrudgingly, even though the consensus […]

November 10, 1999

Fighting for Scholarships in Oklahoma

Fighting for Scholarships in OklahomaFearing that the federal district court in Oklahoma City might shut down a state-financed merit scholarship program targeted by a discrimination lawsuit, Oklahoma State Rep. Opio Toure (D-Oklahoma City) and other Black Democratic legislators got a bill passed last spring to make the program race and gender neutral. Toure’s and his […]

November 10, 1999

Community Colleges

Washington Briefs

Tax Break for Colleges WASHINGTON – The nation’s colleges and universities do not have to pay taxes on income generated from specialized credit cards that bear their names, logos or mascots, a federal appeals court has ruled.The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stems from […]

November 10, 1999

Renewing a Commitment to Civil Rights — Starting With the Courts

Renewing a Commitment to Civil Rights — Starting With the CourtsPower concedes nothing without a struggle. Last October in Washington, D.C., when the U.S. Supreme Court began its term, 1,000 people gathered to protest the absence of African Americans and Hispanics serving in the very prestigious post of law clerk to the justices. This year, […]

October 27, 1999

Leadership & Policy

Running for Cover

Running for CoverFear and Paranoia Su rrounding Affirmative Action Lawsuits Unjustified, Experts SayBy Robin M. BennefieldTwo years ago, University of North Carolina System President Dr. Molly Broad, fresh from the California State System, requested a complete review of the use of race in the admissions policies of schools in the state system.Then last spring, Dr. David […]

October 13, 1999

Calif. Court OKs Race Admissions

Calif. Court OKs Race AdmissionsRuling tailored for experimental school to conduct research but could apply elsewhereSAN FRANCISCO — An experimental University of California-Los Angeles elementary school here that uses racial admissions to study learning skills survived another court test this month but still faces more legal challenges.A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court […]

September 29, 1999

Two Views on Hopwood

Two Views on HopwoodTexas Attorney General John Cornyn’s Opinion — 1999Dear Sen. (Bill) Ratliff:You ask whether public institutions of higher education in the state of Texas are precluded under the court’s decision in Hopwood v. Texas, from considering race or ethnicity in decisions regarding student financial assistance. This office considered a similar question and rendered […]

September 29, 1999

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