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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

Health

Research Roundup: You’re Fired, Call An Ambulance; Black Smokers; the Insulin-Resistant Race

Involuntary job loss near retirement more than doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke; new research may explain why Black smokers are less successful than Whites at quitting the habit; Black women — even if their weight is normal — may be at increased risk for insulin resistance, a condition associated with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart vessel disease.

July 4, 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

Faculty & Staff

Black Professors Under Pressure

Three months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university’s lacrosse scandal…

June 28, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Clark College Faculty: ‘No Confidence’ in First Black Leader

By an overwhelming margin, the Clark College faculty union has passed a no-confidence measure against the two-year school’s president

June 28, 2006

Students

The Current State of Black Student Unions

Diverse surveyed the leaders of 23 BSUs across the country to see how the organizations have evolved over the years…

June 28, 2006

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Report: Increased Education May Help Breed Segregation

Studies have long shown that education broadens an individual’s perspective and helps to diminish racist attitudes. But new Rice University study indicates highly educated Whites help perpetuate racial segregation in U.S. schools.

June 25, 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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U-Wisconsin Grapples With a Sex Case that Strikes a Racial Nerve

Paul Barrows, the beleaguered University of Wisconsin administrator accused in 2003 of sexual harassment, just wants his embarrassing case to end. After two years of negative headlines invoking race, politics, university spending, and indecent relations, one would think that the university administration would like it to end, too.

June 20, 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

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CUNY Retention Program

Officials at New York’s Medgar Evers College (MEC) are challenging a complaint filed last month by a local civil rights…

June 14, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Interim Chancellor Brings Healing Touch to

Chancellor of the 84,000-student Dallas County Community College District for just three years…

June 14, 2006