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Valley Forge Military College to Accept Women

Valley Forge Military College, the last all-male military college in the country, will accept women beginning next fall.

October 24, 2005

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Constance Baker Motley, Civil Rights Lawyer and Federal Judge, Dies at 84

When she was 15, Constance Baker Motley was turned away from a public beach because she was Black.

October 19, 2005

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Ford Diversity Fellows Urged to Defend Affirmative Action

While their fellowship programs have become open to candidates of any race or ethnicity

October 19, 2005

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Why Isn’t Eligibility Part of the Affirmative Action Debate?

Since the mid to late 1990s, the attack on the use of race in college admissions was chiefly waged via ballot initiations

October 19, 2005

Leadership & Policy

Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed William and Mary Chancellor

Sandra Day O’Connor, who announced her retirement as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

October 5, 2005

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Converging Complexities

Converging Complexities Higher Education and the Color Line: College Access, Racial Equity and Social ChangeBy Gary Orfield, Patricia Marin and Catherine L. Horn, eds. Harvard Education Press, 2005300 pp., $59.95 cloth, ISBN: 1-891792-60-1; $29.95 paper, ISBN: 1-891792-59-8 In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Grutter v. Bollinger decision upholding affirmative action, this book […]

October 5, 2005

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The Business Case for Diversity And Its Role in the Academy

When we think about the diversity movement of the last 50 years or so, a few defining moments come immediately to mind.

October 5, 2005

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Bush Chooses White House Counsel Harriet Miers for Supreme Court

President Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court on this week…

October 3, 2005

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Constance Baker Motley, Civil Rights Lawyer and Federal Judge, Dies at 84

When she was 15, Constance Baker Motley was turned away from a public beach because she was Black…

September 29, 2005

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Affirmative Action in the Name of Restitution, Equity, Diversity and Cultural Democracy

Affirmative Action in the Name of Restitution, Equity, Diversity and Cultural DemocracyBy Alfonso López-Vasquez University of Michigan political philosophy professor Dr. Elizabeth S. Anderson breaks affirmative action policies down into four distinct points of argument. In the first, affirmative action is a necessary means to achieve social justice by compensating for past discriminatory behavior. Another […]

September 21, 2005

Students

HBCUs Reach Out

It had not occurred to Lorena Sajardo to consider Texas Southern University as a possible college until

September 21, 2005

Community Colleges

Undocumented Immigrants and College

For undocumented immigrants, the road to college can have even more potholes than for the average Hispanic student

September 21, 2005