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Creating a Fitting Tribute Duke University Honors Historian John Hope Franklin

Creating a Fitting Tribute Duke University Honors Historian John Hope FranklinThe idea of creating a tribute to world-renowned historian Dr. John Hope Franklin at Duke University was easy for administrators and faculty to support. Deciding what the tribute should be and raising the $20 million dollars needed to build it, however, has proven more challenging than […]

January 17, 2001

Michigan Law School Prepares for Historic Affirmative Action Trial

Michigan Law School Prepares for Historic Affirmative Action Trial By Erik LordsDetroit When an affirmative action lawsuit against the University of Michigan’s law school goes to trial here this month, it will be thick with historical significance.Lawyers for a group of intervening minority students in the case will present an unprecedented legal argument, and they […]

January 17, 2001

Federal Court Upholds U-Michigan’s Use of Race in Admissions

Federal Court Upholds U-Michigan’s Use of Race in AdmissionsBy Erik LordsDETROITSupporters of affirmative action across the nation are feeling upbeat after a judge’s ruling in federal court here upheld the University of Michigan’s use of race in admissions last month.The decision — which came just one week after an affirmative action victory in Washington State […]

January 3, 2001

UC System Has No Leeway to Consider Race in Admissions, Despite Recent Court Ruling

UC System Has No Leeway to Consider Race in Admissions, Despite Recent Court RulingBy Pamela BurdmanSAN FRANCISCOEven though two federal courts have cleared the way for admissions offices in other states to consider racial diversity, a recent decision by California’s Supreme Court suggests that the nation’s first university to voluntarily ban affirmative action has not […]

January 3, 2001

Michigan State University Takes Initiative

Michigan State University Takes Initiative In Addressing Racial Profiling On CampusEast Lansing, Mich.Bruce Benson, chief of police at Michigan State University, had heard about it on CNN. He read about it in scholarly police journals. And while attending national police conferences he heard the issue constantly analyzed and dissected. Racial profiling, he noticed over the […]

December 20, 2000

Bok and Bowen Receive Education Award for The Shape of the River

Bok and Bowen Receive Education Award for The Shape of the RiverLouisville, Ky.Educators Derek Bok and Dr. William G. Bowen will receive the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Education for their book on race-sensitive admissions policies, the University of Louisville announced last month.In The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and […]

December 20, 2000

Lawyer Files New Brief on UGA Admissions Policy

Lawyer Files New Brief on UGA Admissions PolicyATHENS, Ga. Lawyers who oppose the University of Georgia’s use of race in its admissions process filed another brief late last month at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Attorney Lee Parks accused the university of “state-sponsored discrimination.” The brief includes a complaint against the […]

December 20, 2000

Minority Students May Be Star Witnesses in U-Michigan Affirmative Action Lawsuit

Minority Students May Be Star Witnesses in U-Michigan Affirmative Action LawsuitLandmark case could turn on their campus experiencesBy Erik LordsDETROITThe 17 Black and Hispanic students who last year won the right to intervene in an affirmative action lawsuit against the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor soon could be star witnesses in the controversial case, […]

December 6, 2000

Group Wants UC to Stop Racial Profiling

Group Wants UC to Stop Racial ProfilingBOULDER, Colo. A newly formed student group wants the University of Colorado to stop collecting information on the racial makeup of the school. The group, the Equal Opportunity Alliance, says the university is practicing racial profiling by gathering such data at the university. It wants officials to delete the […]

November 22, 2000

In Appreciation

In Appreciation:COLLEGE PARK, Md.Dr. Rhonda M. Williams, acting director of Afro-American Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park, died of cancer on Nov. 7 at her home in Hyattsville, Md. She was 43.Williams graduated cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1978 and went on to earn her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of […]

November 22, 2000

Center for Equal Opportunity Now Targets State of Maryland

Center for Equal Opportunity Now Targets State of MarylandBy Linda Meggett Brown and the Associated PressBALTIMOREA dmissions practices at Maryland’s public schools and colleges are the latest targets of the Center for Equal Opportunity, which has released a study indicating that Black students are getting in with lower SAT scores than those of White students.The […]

October 25, 2000

Attorney General Reno Promotes Law School Diversity at Conference

Attorney General Reno Promotes Law School Diversity at ConferenceDENVER Law schools should be allowed to take race into account when making admissions decisions in order to help bring diversity to the ranks of law school graduates and the legal system, Attorney General Janet Reno said earlier this month. “Without considering race in higher education admissions, […]

October 25, 2000

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