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STEM

Office for Civil Rights puts Texas on notice – investigation to determine Texas’ compliance with a Civil Rights provision

While Texas state officials scramble to adopt race-neutral admissions and financial aid policies in the state’s public higher education system? the U.S. Department of Education has opened an inquiry to determine whether the state is complying with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

July 6, 2007

Students

Suit Would Have Board of Governors Set Tuition for Florida’s Public Universities

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Former Gov. Bob Graham and others are suing to have the courts declare that tuition at Florida’s 11 public universities should be set by the state Board of Governors rather than the Legislature.

July 5, 2007

LGBTQ+

Boston Man Sues Over Gay Marriage Question on Bar Exam

BOSTON A man who failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer a question about gay marriage has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming the test violated his rights and that his religious beliefs were targeted.

July 5, 2007

Home

Henry Clay Center Opens, Reaches Out to College Students

LEXINGTON, Ky. With its doors now open, the goal of the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship is to promote international diplomacy and conflict resolution.

July 5, 2007

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Connecticut School Desegregation Case Back in Court

HARTFORD, Conn. Connecticut’s landmark school desegregation case, Sheff v. O’Neill, is back in court in the form of a legal motion citing the failure of the legislature to approve a tentative agreement.

July 5, 2007

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U.S. Supreme Court justices to spend part of summer teaching, traveling in Europe

WASHINGTON Here’s a proposition a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court can agree on, without rancor or regard for ideology: Europe is a good place to spend the summer.

July 4, 2007

Leadership & Policy

News wrap up: Clinton speaks to American Council on Education

WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton thanked the American Council on Education (ACE) during the organization’s annual meeting late last month. The occasion marked the third time Clinton has addressed ACE, the premier voice of higher education, since he took office in 1992.

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

From the ivory tower to the White House … and back again – African American public servants who came from, and came back, to the academe – Cover Story

Shortly after resigning as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in February 1995, Christopher Edley Jr. prepared to resume teaching duties at Harvard Law School, where he had been tenured since 1986. But before he could leave the government, Edley was approached by White House officials who wanted him to chair a high-profile, interagency working group on affirmative action.

July 4, 2007

STEM

Resolution of the Board of Education adopting the report and recommendations of the African American task force; A policy statement and directing the superintendent of schools to devise a program to improve the English language acquisition and application

Whereas, numerous validated scholarly studies demonstrate that African-Americ-an students as a part of their culture and history [as] an African people possess and utilize a language described in various scholarly approaches as “Ebonics” (literally “Blank sounds”) or “Pan-African Communication Behaviors” or “African Language Systems”; and

July 4, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hazing illegal but persistent – hazing of women cadets at the Virginia Military Institute

CHARLESTON, S.C. The kind of hazing that allegedly happened to two female cadets at The Citadel in recent months is nothing new.

July 4, 2007

Students

Open attacks on programs benefitting people of color – Impact 1996

California Passes Proposition 209

July 4, 2007

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Student sues over wrongful arrest in daylight saving mix-up

GREENSBURG Pa. A 15-year-old boy who spent 12 days in a juvenile detention center on charges he phoned in a bomb threat to his school has sued the principal and state trooper he says wrongfully accused him.

July 3, 2007