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LGBTQ+

Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war. The term dates to the 1870s when Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used the concept to eradicate Catholic influence in German society, using “government to enforce ideas of a German identity; a German way of thinking, a German culture, a more German Germany.”

June 20, 2007

Sports

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Limits on Recruiting High School Athletes

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said Thursday that athletic associations can enforce limits on recruiting high school athletes without violating coaches’ free speech rights.

June 20, 2007

Home

Life after Hopwood – University of Texas stops using standardized tests for admissions – Cover Story

El Paso, TX — Hopwood — the case that has thrown affirmative action programs into a tailspin — may be a “blessing in disguise,” according to University of Texas at El Paso president Diana Natalicio.

June 20, 2007

Sports

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Limits on Recruiting High School Athletes

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said Thursday that athletic associations can enforce limits on recruiting high school athletes without violating coaches’ free speech rights.

June 20, 2007

Students

Wanted: more black graduate students

In the middle of my doctoral studies, I encountered an elderly relative who expressed some chagrin that I was “still in school.” She noted that she had sent me a few dollars when I earned my undergraduate degree and wondered whether her investment was wasted.

June 19, 2007

Students

Texas twister – Graduate Opportunities Program

In 1978, Sarita Brown told the dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas-Austin that the reason the university had so few minority graduate students was the fault of the university, not the lack of eligible candidates. A well-run program, she said, could bring in many more Black and Hispanic graduate students.

June 19, 2007

HBCUs

Supreme Court ruling on VMI not a legal burden to HBCUs – Virginia Military Institute, historically Black colleges and universities

Historically Black colleges and universities probably won’t face another legal barrage now that the Supreme Court has eradicated single-gender education at Virginia Military Institute, discrimination law experts say.

June 18, 2007

Home

New affirmative action guidelines proposed – Justice Department Seeks Public Comment

The U.S. Justice Department has issued an unusual call for public comment on proposed new affirmative action guidelines.

June 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Prince George’s County: another ghetto in the making?

After U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas agreed to speak at an awards ceremony for a middle school in Maryland, Kenneth F. Johnson, a school board member, objected, saying Thomas’ views had no place in Prince George’s County MD, the fastest-growing Black jurisdiction in the country.

June 18, 2007

Home

Merger no longer a threat for Mississippi Valley State

Over the years as the fate of a small, Black, rural institution unfolded in and out of the court, business was as usual as it could have been at Mississippi Valley State University.

June 17, 2007

Students

Who benefits from affirmative action? – Whites are key beneficiaries of special admission standards at Washington State

In the midst of all the current breast-beating about affirmative action, the Washington State Commission on African-American Affairs has found that data — provided by four-year institutions and compiled by the Washington State Office of Financial Management show that whites are the key beneficiaries of “special/alternative admission standards” and affirmative action affecting hiring at Washington States’s four-year schools. The beneficiaries include significant numbers of white men as well as white women.

June 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The sound of a gateway closing – how anti-affirmative action was organized for national debate – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

In America, education remains the gateway to upward social mobility, to opportunity, to self-sufficiency, successful families and political participation. That’s the reality.

June 17, 2007