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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

Students

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

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Needed: Ethical Leadership in the Aftermath of Katrina

One cannot begin to understand the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina without noting the failure of leadership at federal

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

Faculty & Staff

An Academic Partnership

Black and Hispanic studies are separate fields at most universities

September 21, 2005

Health

Race and Sex Disparities in Heart Attack Care Not Improving

Differences based on race and sex in treatment patterns for hospitalized American heart attack patients

September 21, 2005

Students

Blacks Remain an Extreme Minority at UC Campuses

James Marshall didn’t expect it would be easy, being one of just a handful of Black students at the University of California, Berkeley’s, high-ranking business school.

September 11, 2005

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U.S. Census: Texas is Nation’s Newest ‘Majority-Minority’ State

Texas has now joined Hawaii, New Mexico and California as a “majority-minority” state, along with the District of Columbia

September 7, 2005

Health

Race and Sex Disparities in Heart Attack Care, Survival Not Improving

Differences based on race and sex in treatment patterns for hospitalized American heart attack patients have remained unchanged over an eight-year period Story:

August 29, 2005

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Broadening Perspectives

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August 24, 2005

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Drawing Upon the Diaspora

Callie Watkins entered Harvard University looking forward to interacting with a diverse student population. Story:

August 24, 2005

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U.S. Census: Texas is Nation’s Newest ‘Majority-Minority’ State

Texas has now joined Hawaii, New Mexico and California as a majority-minority state, along with the District of Columbia, the U.S. Census Bureau reported this week Story:

August 10, 2005