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Civil Rights Commission Takes On Diversity In Schools

WASHINGTON The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights assembled a panel of experts on Friday to discuss the educational and non-educational benefits of diversity for students in elementary and secondary education.

July 29, 2006

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Scholars Look For Winning Strategies For Young Black Men

A panel of high-profile academics, activists and political leaders gathered in New York on Friday to tackle what they called the most pressing issue facing African Americans in the post-civil rights era: the plight of the Black male.

July 16, 2006

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Civil Rights Panel: Law School Affirmative Action May Hurt Blacks

Is American Bar Association-mandated affirmative action among U.S. law schools ultimately helping or hurting prospective Black attorneys?…

July 12, 2006

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Blocking the Ballot Box

The 2000 presidential election offered Americans two significant lessons about the politics and institutions that govern them…

July 12, 2006

HBCUs

Perspectives: The Supreme Court, Race and Education

Racial inequality in education — not affirmative action — should be the major theme of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear two cases regarding the use of race in the assignment of students in public schools.

July 5, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Professor Named To Fill Endowed UCLA Chair On Japanese Internment

After a year-long search, the Asian American Studies Center and Department at the University of California, Los Angeles has appointed Dr. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi as the first George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress and Community. The endowed chair is the first and only of its kind in U.S. higher education to address the historical legacy of the Japanese-American internment during World War II.

July 4, 2006

Students

Student Activism at its Best

To show their support of diversity in higher education, hundreds, if not thousands…

June 28, 2006

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Another Supreme Test?

The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in two K-12 school assignment cases…

June 28, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Michigan Voters Warned of Dire Consequences of Affirmative Action Vote

Women and people of color can expect fewer government contracts and faculty positions at public universities if Michigan voters this fall approve a ban on affirmative action, a study released Monday suggests.

June 26, 2006

STEM

University of Wisconsin Race-conscious Admissions Under Fire

Facing a backlash from parents and lawmakers, University of Wisconsin system leaders are downplaying their plans to change admissions policies to give greater weight to nonacademic factors such as race and income.

June 25, 2006

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Preferential Admissions Questioned In Court

A wealthy private school created exclusively for Hawaii’s indigenous people may be forced to admit non-Hawaiians if it loses a legal challenge.

June 18, 2006

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Civil Rights Panel: Law School Affirmative Action May Hurt Blacks

Is American Bar Association-mandated affirmative action among U.S. law schools ultimately helping or hurting prospective Black attorneys? The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hosted a panel Friday to examine this issue, and the consensus was decidedly mixed.

June 18, 2006