Tag: Race: Page 80

Leadership & Policy

Spelman exec: Brace for more challenges to diversity programs

ATLANTA Spelman College President Beverly Tatum has championed racially diverse relationships for most of her life: as a child growing up in New England, as a young professor teaching about the psychology of racism, and as an author writing about cross-racial interaction.

August 6, 2007

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Attorney seeks fees in school assignments case

LOUISVILLE Ky. An attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejected the use of race in assigning students to Louisville schools asked a judge is now seeking fees from the court.

July 27, 2007

Students

Judge turns down contempt request for school leaders in race case

LOUISVILLE Ky. A lawyer’s request that Jefferson County school officials be held in contempt and put in jail was turned down Friday, before school district lawyers even responded to the request.

July 27, 2007

Students

Wisconsin attorney general: Race can be considered in admissions

MADISON Wis. A new freshman admissions policy requiring University of Wisconsin campuses to consider an applicant’s race as one of many factors is legal, the state attorney general said Thursday.

July 26, 2007

Students

Lawyer Asks for Changes in Schools Case

LOUISVILLE Ky. An attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejected the use of race in assigning students to Louisville schools asked a judge on Thursday to allow about 2,800 students to change schools immediately.

July 26, 2007

Students

The Weight of One Man’s Opinion

While casting the deciding vote in the recent K-12 desegregation case, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion left some room to maneuver.

July 25, 2007

Students

Group Files Complaint Against UT Over Race-Conscious Admissions

AUSTIN, Texas A legal group that fights against racial preferences in schools and workplaces has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education about the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race in its undergraduate admissions process.

July 23, 2007

Students

Perspectives: Abandoning Brown and ‘[Race]ing’ Backwards on K-12 Education

The recent, well-publicized U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases make it much tougher for school districts to achieve racial diversity and eliminate racially isolated public school systems. In addressing the use of race by Seattle and Louisville school districts in student assignments, Chief Justice John Roberts declared, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

July 18, 2007

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The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions – Review

The Shape of the River’ Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by Derek Bok and Dr. William G. Bowen, Princeton University Press, $22.75, 384 pages.

July 14, 2007

African-American

Just a Nappy-Headed Sister with the PC Blues – Review

I’ve worn my hair shorn close to my head for at least the last 10 years, from time to time letting it get a wild and wooly inch or so past my scalp. I’m a member of the “happy is nappy” school, and gleefully so. For years, I wore the T-shirt of a sister whose naps could be used as the illustration that went with a sign that said “happy is nappy.”

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Career CONSULTANTS – race education

For years, I’ve been teaching course in which the issue of race was virtually irrelevant. Recently, I’ve developed an interest in working the matter of race and culture into my course, but I fear that by doing so, I’ll be marginalized by colleagues on the faculty. Should I even bother, and if I do, how should I handle it?

July 14, 2007

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Now that DNA evidence conclusively proves the third U.S. president fathered the child of a slave, scholars weigh in on what it means for the discipline of American History

Now that DNA evidence conclusively proves the third U.S. president fathered the child of a slave, scholars weigh in on what it means for the discipline of American History

July 14, 2007