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IU Press Puts Books, Journals Online

Indiana University’s academic press has started putting books and journals online.

August 5, 2009

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Ivy League sports budgets cut ‘to the core’

The deepest recession in five decades may leave the Ivy League behind on the field. According to the Providence Journal, the economy is choking donations, battering endowments and threatening to eliminate some sports programs. The eight schools, which have educated 14 U.S. presidents and half of the 110 justices in Supreme Court history, have estimated […]

August 4, 2009

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Appeals Court Hears Mississippi Voting Rights Case Sparked by Inclusion of College Voters

A federal appeals court is reviewing the dismissal of a lawsuit that claims Black voters in Hattiesburg, Miss., have been marginalized by the city’s decision to count thousands of college students in drawing its ward boundary lines.

August 4, 2009

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In Brief: Stories From Around the Academy

UVa awards a scholarship in honor of late dean who helped increase college access for low-income and minority students; Indiana-based researchers seek breast tissue from Hispanic women; Jobless grad sues NY college for tuition.

August 3, 2009

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Jobless NYC woman sues college for $70K in tuition

A New York City woman who says she can’t find a job is suing the college where she earned a bachelor’s degree.  According to the Associated Press, Trina Thompson filed a lawsuit last week against Monroe College in Bronx Supreme Court. The 27-year-old is seeking the $70,000 she spent on tuition.  Thompson says she’s been […]

August 2, 2009

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Obama Names Diverse Group of Medal of Freedom Recipients

Civil rights veteran Joseph Lowery, anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, and medical school dean Pedro Jose Greer are among 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.

July 30, 2009

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Fisk Wins Chance to Make Case For Selling Interest In Art Collection

The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered a Nashville trial judge to give Fisk University the chance to prove it meets the legal requirements to modify the conditions of a deceased donor’s gift of art and, if satisfied, fashion an order that would allow Fisk to sell part interest in the world famous collection it has controlled more than half a century.

July 15, 2009

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Perspectives: Wake Up GOP: Sotomayor is This Generation’s Jackie Robinson

Nine years into the new millennium and conservatives and Republicans — with straight faces — insist that it is they that should define the nation’s racial debate and that it is their views that are fair and objective and part of the U.S. mainstream.

July 15, 2009

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U.S. Appeals Court To Hear Hattiesburg Ward Case

A federal appeals court will hear arguments Aug. 3 on whether the counting of university students in Hattiesburg’s population diluted minority participation on the city council.

July 13, 2009

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Hispanic Civil Rights Group at Center of Sotomayor Fight

Conservatives have called the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund’s stances against capital punishment and for abortion rights, as well as its advocacy of affirmative action in worker discrimination cases, “extreme” and “shocking.” Some have suggested Sonia Sotomayor’s longtime association with the group is an indication that she is biased and would be unable to render impartial decisions as a Supreme Court justice.

July 12, 2009

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Perspectives: Progress Made and the Significant Work That Lies Ahead

In perhaps the most important voting rights case in a generation, the Supreme Court issued a ruling this past June22 that has tremendous implications for African-American and other minority voters.

July 6, 2009

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Despite Ruling, Testing Debate Far From Settled

The U.S. Supreme Court renewed debate Monday over the fairness of high-stakes testing with its ruling that White firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who scored high enough to win promotion on an exam Black firefighters didn’t, were unfairly denied promotions as a result of their race.

June 29, 2009