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Ga. Minority Scholarship Dropped Because of Lawsuits

Ga. Minority Scholarship Dropped Because of LawsuitsATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia has stopped awarding a prominent minority scholarship because of lawsuits targeting the school’s use of race in admissions policy. University officials say the Holmes-Hunter Scholarship, which gives $1,500 a year to a Black student with strong academic and leadership potential, was not […]

July 19, 2000

Race Relations Center Prompts Location Debate

Race Relations Center Prompts Location DebateGREENSBORO, N.C. — A proposed university race relations center designed to promote understanding and equality has prompted debate over whether a University of North Carolina system campus should house such a program. Legislators last year proposed giving $500,000 toward building the Martin Luther King Race Relations Center at North Carolina […]

July 19, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Court Rules for Md. College in Race Discrimination Suit

Court Rules for Md. College in Race Discrimination SuitARNOLD, Md. — A former vice president of Anne Arundel Community College has lost another round in her race discrimination suit against the school’s board of trustees and president.The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., unanimously upheld a verdict against Dr. Augustine Pounds, who […]

July 5, 2000

The Need for Closure

The Need for Closure Mississippi HBCUs look for light at end of tunnel despite judge’s call for more other-race scholarships JACKSON, Miss. — Officials at Mississippi’s historically Black universities are not overly concerned about a federal judge’s order to use 65 percent of their endowment trust fund income to provide scholarships to attract White students to […]

July 5, 2000

Leadership & Policy

BI News Briefs

Doctoral Program Decision Deferred in BaltimoreBALTIMORE — A decision on new doctoral programs at two Baltimore-area public universities, opposed by Morgan State University on the grounds they would unnecessarily duplicate programs at the predominantly Black school, has been deferred, state education officials said late last month. The programs will not be approved before the commission […]

June 21, 2000

Correctional Education: Books Give Prisoners’ Perspectives

Correctional Education: Books Give Prisoners’ PerspectivesCurrently, some 70 percent of the 2 million people in U.S. jails, prisons and detention centers are people of color; approximately 1 million are African American. With the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, the United States is one of the few developed countries with capital punishment and one […]

June 7, 2000

African-American

BI News Briefs

Morgan State Blocks Competing Doctoral ProgramsBALTIMORE — New doctoral programs at Baltimore-area public universities have been put on hold at the urging of Morgan State University officials, prompting critics to claim the school is using its historically Black status to block competition from other schools. The first doctoral programs at Towson University and the University […]

May 24, 2000

Native Americans

California’s Minority Enrollment Is Up , But That’s Only Part of the Story

California’s Minority Enrollment Is Up , But That’s Only Part of the StoryBERKELEY, Calif. — The number of Black and Hispanic freshmen admitted to the University of California system has rebounded to the level it was when race and gender preferences were still in place.However, much of the recovery is because more Blacks and Hispanics […]

April 26, 2000

Washington Briefs

Ed. Dept. Speaker Criticizes RepublicansWASHINGTON — A former teacher described Govs. George W. and Jeb Bush as racists during a U.S. Department of Education seminar on promoting diversity last month, and at least one lawmaker is demanding an explanation.Jane Elliot, an author who delivers lectures worldwide on race and bias issues, was invited to the […]

April 12, 2000

BI News Briefs

Judge OKs Settlement in White Student’s Discrimination SuitTULSA, Okla. — A federal judge earlier this month approved a settlement in a discrimination lawsuit filed by a White student who contended that Oklahoma higher-education officials unfairly denied him a scholarship.University of Tulsa student Matthew Pollard filed his lawsuit against the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education […]

March 29, 2000

Community Colleges

Campaign 2000

WASHINGTON — The presidential race is heating up, but so far most candidates are not spending much time on higher education issues.Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley and Republicans George W. Bush and John McCain have been locked in heated primary debates, yet education issues are not often on the front burner. The problem is […]

March 15, 2000

Race, -ism and Academia

Race, -ism and AcademiaFunny thing, how race pervades. Permeating little monster that it is, race — and its ugly -ism — frequently charms its way through society’s everyday pockets like the job interview or the traffic stop.Recent editorials also report that said -ism has been cunning enough to set up shop in places as varied […]

March 15, 2000

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