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Students

The Anatomy of Textbook Publishing

The Anatomy of Textbook PublishingComplex publication process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing textbooksEverything else from your college days may be fading into the mists of middle age, but there’s one thing you probably remember with utter clarity: the first time you had to shell out more than $50 for a textbook.Let’s […]

June 19, 2002

Health

Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial Data

Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial DataProposal is proving divisive among academics, and even past Connerly supportersBy Pamela BurdmanWard Connerly, the regent who brought the affirmative action ban to the University of California, now is  taking his campaign for race-blindness a step farther with a controversial new proposal that already is infuriating academics. After […]

June 19, 2002

Students

Vision for a ‘New Fisk’ Has Students, Alumni Asking ‘At What Expense?’

Vision for a ‘New Fisk’ Has Students, Alumni Asking ‘At What Expense?’Survey shows president, students far apart on plans for reviving the HBCUBy David HefnerNASHVILLE, Tenn.Fisk University’s newly elected president, Dr. Carolynn Reid-Wallace, has created quite a stir in Nashville and within the tightly woven Fisk community. It all started in March when she hinted […]

June 19, 2002

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The Strange Career Uncle Tom

The Strange Career Uncle TomOn the 150th anniversary of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, scholars reflect on the legacy of the groundbreaking novel and its author Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom. It’s one of the most inflammatory racial insults that a Black person can offer another. Not quite as powerful, or as controversial, as the […]

June 5, 2002

Students

Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore

Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore Speculation now on how justices will voteBy Erik LordsCINCINNATIMany legal experts across the nation agree that the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action case will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. But their opinions vary widely on how the high […]

June 5, 2002

Health

Race Matters Health Care

Race Matters Health CareExperts say eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities is the civil rights issue of our dayWASHINGTONWhen the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine released its report earlier this year documenting that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care, many African Americans in the medical and health care […]

May 22, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan AfricaOn a recent trip to the West African nation of Mali, Dr. John O. Hunwick encountered in Timbuktu signs of its legacy being resurrected in the form of new libraries. To this scholar of African history and frequent visitor to the dusty, desert city near the […]

May 8, 2002

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California Coalition Takes Fight for Race Neutrality One Step Farther

California Coalition Takes Fight for Race Neutrality One Step FartherSacramento, Calif.Ward Connerly, the University of California regent who spearheaded California’s move to race neutrality in education, is behind a new move to further ensure that race is not a factor in official state business.  Connerly, a Black businessman, chairs the Sacramento-based American Civil Rights Coalition. […]

May 8, 2002

African-American

Did Black Folks Gain From the Women’s Movement?

Did Black Folks Gain From the Women’s Movement?I have always been intrigued by the career of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The Stanford Law School graduate’s legal career was clearly affected by sex discrimination, yet O’Connor has tended to take mixed positions in cases of race discrimination. Her opinion in the Croson case was, […]

March 27, 2002

Recruitment & Retention

Career Consultants

Dear BI Career Consultants: How has the role of minority student recruitment officers been changed by the current use of admission “percentage plans,” such as the ones in place in California, Texas and Florida?Essentially, the fundamental role of recruitment officers has not changed, even in the wake of the admission percentage plans at state institutions […]

March 27, 2002

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Affirmative Action’s Uncertain Future

Affirmative Action’s Uncertain Future Proponents of race-conscious admissions firm on belief, but less confident on whether policy could survive a Supreme Court reviewBy Diana AboualiCambridge, Mass.Proponents of affirmative action offered compelling arguments for the use of race-conscious admissions at the nation’s colleges and universities at a recent symposium at Harvard Law School. However, the same […]

March 27, 2002

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The Privilege to Protest

The Privilege to Protest The dispute began innocently enough.  Thomas Glave, an assistant professor in the creative writing program at the State University of New York at Binghamton, along with the director of the creative writing program and another senior colleague, both of whom are White women, were serving together on a search committee for […]

March 13, 2002