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Breaking Thurgood Marshall’s promise – declining minority enrollment in higher education

Out of 268 first-year students enrolled at the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, only on is African American. Out of 468 at the University of Texas School of Law, only four are. Embedded in these cold facts is a personal story of how, forty-seven years ago, I witnessed the birth of racial justice in the Supreme court and how now, after forty-five years as a lawyer, judge, and law professor, I sometimes feel as if I am watching justice die.

July 11, 2007

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All Americans are Nabrit beneficiaries – James Madison Nabrit, Jr – Obituary

As the president of Howard University, I am often called on to reflect upon Howard’s unique legacy. Recently, I was privileged to address this legacy anew as we celebrated the life of Dr. James Madison Nabrit Jr., Howard’s second African American president who passed at the age of ninety-seven on December 27, 1997.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Seeing no evil – Dr Shelby Steele’s speech on race-conscious affirmative action policies at the National Assn of Scholars conference in New Orleans – Cover Story

NEW ORLEANS Although academics who criticize multiculturalism often gripe about research or activism they contend represents nothing more than ideology masquerading as serious scholarly activity, a group of conservative scholars found several things to cheer about when the National Association of Scholars (NAS) honored the authors of California’s Proposition 209 and heard Dr. Shelby Steele deliver a withering critique of affirmative action.

July 11, 2007

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California has another proposition – Ron Unz Initiative to ban bilingual instruction

This One Would Prohibit Bilingual Education

July 11, 2007

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Mischief makers: the men behind all those anti-affirmative action lawsuits – includes news analysis on court decisions that affect diversity in higher education

When a group of Republican state lawmakers last summer mounted a public campaign to find potential plaintiffs for a class-action lawsuit against the University of Michigan’s affirmative action admissions policies, Jennifer Gratz responded immediately. Gratz, a policeman’s daughter and former high school homecoming queen, had been rejected by Michigan in 1995 despite strong grades and high standardized-test scores.

July 11, 2007

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Bailing out Piscataway school board: civil rights groups avoid possibility of allowing Supreme Court to make “bad law.” – Piscataway, New Jersey, case before U.S. Supreme Court

The settlement of a New Jersey reverse discrimination case by civil rights groups has headed off a potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling many activists believe would have dealt a death blow to affirmative action programs in the United States.

July 11, 2007

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The myth of educational attainment: when a Black woman’s master’s degree equals a White woman’s bachelor’s degree – Picataway, MJ, school board, teachers, lawsuit – Column

The Black Leadership Forum — an organization that includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Urban League, the National Council of Negro Women, and others — deflected energy from the controversial Taxman v. Piscataway case that the Supreme Court had committed to hear this session. The forum agreed to finance 70 percent of the nearly $450,000 settlement that the plaintiff and her lawyers will receive from the Piscataway school board.

July 11, 2007

Latinx

March planned to support affirmative action: Latino law students and professors confront threat of limited access

Albequerque, N.M. A gathering here last month of organizations representing Latino law students agreed to form a national organization to support a pro-affirmative action march, scheduled for January in San Francisco, being organized by legal educators.

July 11, 2007

Students

Historically Black Bluefield State’s ironic situation: desperately seeking Black students and faculty – Bluefield State College, West Virginia

Bluefield, W. Va. When a historically Black university fails to sustain, say, a ten percent African American student population, People are bound to start talking. Well, they have.

July 11, 2007

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“Hostile environment”: reducing applications to medical schools nationwide – elimination of affirmative action in California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi

WASHINGTON – The elimination of affirmative action in California, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi has had a chilling effect on the enrollment and acceptance of racial and ethnic minorities in medical schools across the country, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

July 11, 2007

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Lee may be given a recess appointment – appointment of Bill Lann Lee as assistant attorney general

Despite Senate Republican opposition, Bill Lann Lee may still become assistant attorney general in charge of civil rights, if only on a temporary basis.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Committed to diversity? Where’s the evidence? – Special Report – Cover Story

An often-expressed apprehension within the Black community is that traditionally White institutions were never really committed to integration, diversity, or affirmative action. The fear was that many of these colleges undertook halfhearted minority student recruitment and retention efforts and occasional Black faculty/staff appointments while waiting for relief from conservative courts, legislatures and voters.

July 11, 2007