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HBCUs

New ‘Fordice’ report may benefit Mississippi HBCUs – Ayers v. Fordice, historically Black colleges and universities

Jackson, Miss. The new report is 400 pages and 100,000 words — one of the bulkiest in memory — and is touted as a reaffirmation of the importance of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Art, audits, and allegations – Lincoln University, President Niara Sudarkasa

Lincoln University, Pa. Summer break is normally a time of respite, a pause in the scholastic action to allow administrators, faculty, and students a little timeout and a chance to get the batteries charged. But it seems the only things being charged at Lincoln University in rural southeastern Pennsylvania this summer are highly publicized allegations of fiscal mismanagement and misconduct.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Art, audits, and allegations – Lincoln University, President Niara Sudarkasa

Lincoln University, Pa. Summer break is normally a time of respite, a pause in the scholastic action to allow administrators, faculty, and students a little timeout and a chance to get the batteries charged. But it seems the only things being charged at Lincoln University in rural southeastern Pennsylvania this summer are highly publicized allegations of fiscal mismanagement and misconduct.

July 13, 2007

HBCUs

Judge to Mississippi: monitor minority freshman enrollment

JACKSON, Miss. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. has directed the state College Board to monitor decreasing freshman enrollment at Mississippi’s historically Black institutions [HBCUs). In the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable decrease in freshmen at Jackson State. Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State universities, figures show. And while overall Black enrollment is up 7.3 percent at the state’s eight universities since Biggers ordered new admission standards in 1995, the freshman enrollment to decrease.

July 12, 2007

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Bilingual back talk: educators, politicians look for countermeasures to California initiative – Proposition 227

SAN FRANCISCO Just days after California voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to outlaw bilingual education, civil rights groups have filed suit to challenge the new law and school districts are finding ways around it.

July 12, 2007

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The pragmatism of Bakke – affirmative action

This month’s twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Bakke v. University of California is an odd occasion to commemorate. The Bakke case is the earliest in which the Supreme Court directly addressed affirmative action. But like much of the affirmative action debate, Bakke is as symbolic as it is real. Appropriately, given its resolution at the time, the Bakke case presents multiple meanings today.

July 12, 2007

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A Hope in the Unseen. – book reviews

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to teach at several high schools in New Jersey. Once again, I was disappointed with American public school education. Our society seems to be failing the majority of our young people. Who is to blame? Who is responsible? Every day, many of our young people simply show tip at an educational site, move through the corridors, laugh with friends, talk about clothes and sports, ignore their teachers, and wait for the day to end so that they can return to the streets. Unless we undertake and adopt major reforms, our democratic foundation as a nation will be imperiled.

July 12, 2007

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Countdown in California: students offer voter initiative to counteract Proposition 209 – measure to restore affirmative action

Members of Students for Educational Opportunity, a Berkeley-based group working against the clock to restore affirmative action in education. By the end of March they had gathered 200,000 signatures to place a new initiative on California’s November ballot. The initiative, which is designed to counter Proposition 209, states that California may “consider the economic background, race, sex, ethnicity, and national origin of qualified individuals.”

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Looking out for their future – Black and Latino students seek to support University of Michigan as defendants in reverse discrimination lawsuit

Washington National and local civil rights groups are hoping to accomplish in Michigan what Texas officials failed to do during Hopwood v. Texas — that is, prevent the restriction of educational opportunities for Black and Latino students.

July 11, 2007

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The pitfalls and the pendulum – recruiting for affirmative action programs and the law

People often ask me to predict how current events are shaping the future of affirmative action. The wonder aloud about the legality of initiatives to recruit, action, and promote Black faculty and administrators. My response may vary somewhat, depending on the purpose of the question and the questioner. But, invariably, I make one point emphatically: The pendulum tends to swing back and forth in response to the political climate of the country, but the backward arcs have never been dramatic — especially in comparison with the wider swings forward.

July 11, 2007

STEM

Mississippi appeal refused – Ayers v. Fordice, college admission standards and black enrollment

The refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to consider an appeal by plaintiffs in the long-running Ayers v. Fordice case has given Mississippi state officials breathing room to prove that a controversial college admissions plan is not reducing access for Blacks to the state’s public university system.

July 11, 2007

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History as told by … professor proclaims his ‘Amistad’ ancestry – Samuel Hingha Pieh; includes related articles

Samuel Hingha Pieh grew up in Sierra Leone along with his five brothers; and sisters in a small city on the West African country’s coastal plains called Taiama.

July 11, 2007