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The Revolution Is Being Televised — on the Internet

The day the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in Brown v. Board of Education — May 17, 1954 — has been called “the most important [day] of the 20th Century.”

July 14, 2007

Ruling Ends Affirmative Action at Boston High School

BOSTON A three-judge panel here struck down the affirmative action policies of Boston Latin School, the city’s most prestigious public high school, according to a story in The New York Times. It is the first such appeals court decision in the nation directed at the K-12 system of education.

July 14, 2007

Taking the Initiative

In the wake of Washington State’s passage of Initiative 200, pro-affirmative action scholars call for a new combat strategy

July 14, 2007

The Epitome of Inequality

Alabama’s all-but-level higher education playing field is a case study in what’s wrong with higher education’s commitment to equity and diversity

July 14, 2007

News Briefs

WASHINGTON Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998 National Humanities Medal.

July 14, 2007

Black Issues Quiz

The Black Issues Quiz, or BIQ offers you the opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth ten points.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Central State Must Ante-Up for Faculty

Wilberforce, Ohio The administration claimed at a fiscal and political crisis left it with no choice but to take the actions it did. However, the Central State University (CSU) faculty union has won a series of legal victories over the past few weeks that could pose new financial problems for the state’s only historically Black institution of higher education.

July 14, 2007

Poll Confirms that Americans Want Diversity on Campuses

Most Americans say that college students need to know about different kinds of people and how to get along with them. There also seems to be a national consensus that colleges should have diverse student bodies and faculties, as well as courses that focus on diversity.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The River Running Through College Admissions. – Review – book reviews

If you don’t read another book about higher education this year, you must read William G. Bowen’s and Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (Princeton University Press, 1998).

July 14, 2007

Sudarkasa’s epilogue – Niara Sudarkasa, Lincoln University – Interview

After nearly twelve years at the helm of one of the nation’s oldest historically Black institutions, Lincoln University, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa resigned last month under a cloud of controversy (see news story pg 14). The former Gloria A. Marshall has enjoyed a more than thirty-year career in higher education, punctuated by achievements that have garnered her both esteem — such as her celebrated work as a professor of anthropology, and her visionary expansion of Lincoln’s already prestigious ties to African nations — and ridicule — her 1991 testimony on behalf of then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, and the current allegations of malfeasance. The following are excerpts from an interview conducted by Black Issues executive editor Cheryl D. Fields only moments after the much revered and maligned president announced her resignation.

July 14, 2007

Counting on accuracy – Census Bureau looks to minority higher education community for help

Now that the court has ruled against the use of statistical sampling, the U.S. Census Bureau looks to the minority higher education community for assistance

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The long, winding, and neglected road – Black students do not reality education parity in Southern state college and universities

SEF report reveals that after thirty years of Black progress along the path to higher education parity, there are still `Miles To Go’

July 14, 2007

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