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Student Group Vows to Defeat Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot Proposal

Student Group Vows to Defeat Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot ProposalA student activist group is organizing a national boycott to defeat Ward Connerly’s proposed anti-affirmative action ballot initiative in Michigan. The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action & Integration and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is calling for a boycott of all corporations and institutions […]

July 30, 2003

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Civil Rights Groups, Berkeley Settle Lawsuit Over Admissions Policy

Civil Rights Groups, Berkeley Settle Lawsuit Over Admissions PolicyBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision giving a green light to race-conscious admissions was grabbing headlines, another challenge over race and admissions was quietly coming to closure. Civil rights groups settled with the University of California at Berkeley in a 4-year-old lawsuit charging that […]

July 30, 2003

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Oklahoma Awards First Tulsa Race Riot Scholarships

Oklahoma Awards First Tulsa Race Riot Scholarships TULSA, Okla. The first college scholarships meant to ensure the 1921 Tulsa race riot is not forgotten have been awarded to 20 students. Two seniors from nine public high schools and one charter school in Tulsa will each receive $1,000. The Tulsa Reconciliation Scholarships are funded by $20,000 […]

July 2, 2003

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Teaching Du Bois at the Right Moment

Teaching Du Bois at the Right MomentBy Dr. Caroline MaunThis has been a deliberate semester. I teach an honors freshman English course at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where there has been a semester-long celebration of W.E.B. Du Bois’ seminal work The Souls of Black Folk. The text is an outstanding choice for this class […]

June 18, 2003

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Class-Based Affirmative Action

Class-Based Affirmative ActionBattle over race-conscious approaches pushes idea to the surfaceBy Ronald RoachIn an effort to highlight and promote race-neutral approaches to college and graduate school admissions at competitive institutions, the Bush administration has recently put a bright spotlight on the idea of class-based or economic affirmative action. Touted by Bush officials as a race-neutral […]

June 18, 2003

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What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name?Study shows that workplace discrimination begins long before the job seeker shows up for an interviewBy Kendra Hamilton  Thinking of naming your child Keisha or Aisha? How about Rasheed or Tremayne? African American parents across the nation may have to think again, as a recent study has shown that workplace discrimination begins […]

June 18, 2003

HBCUs

Southern Law Center’s Increasing White Enrollment Concerns Lawmaker

Southern Law Center’s Increasing White Enrollment Concerns LawmakerBy Scott Dyer BATON ROUGE, La. One of the most powerful African Americans in the Louisiana Legislature is warning that historically Black Southern University Law Center may be turning too White. Caucasian students accounted for 33 percent of the Baton Rouge law school’s total enrollment for the 2002-2003 […]

June 18, 2003

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An Eclectic Mix: From Affirmative Action to Mali

An Eclectic Mix: From Affirmative Action to Mali As we await the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, along with the rest of the higher education community, we decided to use what could be our last edition before the Court delivers a ruling this summer to explore “class-based” or economic affirmative action. The Bush […]

June 18, 2003

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Unfit to Print: Jayson Blair and Attacks on Affirmative Action

Unfit to Print: Jayson Blair and Attacks on Affirmative Action By Julianne Malveaux I’m addicted to the printed word so I was as shocked and appalled as the rest of the world when Jayson Blair, the young New York Times reporter, was revealed as an all-out prevaricator. I mean, the young man plagiarized, invented and […]

June 4, 2003

Faculty & Staff

UC Regents Turn the Tables on Ward Connerly

UC Regents Turn the Tables on Ward Connerly Regents oppose initiative to outlaw collection of racial data even as Connerly predicts victory at the ballot boxBy Pamela Burdman SAN FRANCISCO The University of California Board of Regents went on the offensive recently against fellow regent Ward Connerly, formally opposing his campaign to outlaw the collection […]

June 4, 2003

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Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action

Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action By Charles DervaricsRace-conscious college admissions hurt low-income minority students by pitting them against more affluent African American and Latino youth who could afford college anyway, U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige says. In his latest effort to push race-neutral college admissions, Paige told an Education Department conference audience that race-conscious admissions […]

May 21, 2003

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Finding the ‘Right’ Research Mix

Finding the ‘Right’ Research MixSticking to what they know and love helps some scholars chart successful research careersBy Kendra Hamilton The research enterprise is the cornerstone of the modern academy. It is so much a feature of the landscape that perhaps it’s not surprising that no aspect of the scholarly condition has been subject to […]

May 7, 2003