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ACE lauded at conference for stand on diversity – American Council on Education – includes related article on Dr. Reginald Wilson

San Francisco Both Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala praised the American Council on Education (ACE) for its recent statement on the need for diversity in higher education.

July 11, 2007

Latinx

HBCUs, HSIs at odds over Title III criteria – aid in doubt at Hispanic and Black-serving educational institutions

The Clinton adminstration is touting a new Hispanic Initiative that targets both students and colleges, and may leave some tough decisions for congressional leaders and educators of color.

July 11, 2007

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Resting on the box into which we have put Dr. King – Martin Luther King, Jr

I don’t know how many cities, workplaces, and university campuses had Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations. Don’t know how many sang and swayed to songs like “We Shall Overcome” and “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Don’t know how many times Black hands linked with White ones, and White lips strained for Black cheeks, or Black arms groped White shoulders. It had to happen thousands of times on January 19 all over the country, because our nation is one committed to the process of celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream.

July 11, 2007

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Breaking Thurgood Marshall’s promise – declining minority enrollment in higher education

Out of 268 first-year students enrolled at the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, only on is African American. Out of 468 at the University of Texas School of Law, only four are. Embedded in these cold facts is a personal story of how, forty-seven years ago, I witnessed the birth of racial justice in the Supreme court and how now, after forty-five years as a lawyer, judge, and law professor, I sometimes feel as if I am watching justice die.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Seeing no evil – Dr Shelby Steele’s speech on race-conscious affirmative action policies at the National Assn of Scholars conference in New Orleans – Cover Story

NEW ORLEANS Although academics who criticize multiculturalism often gripe about research or activism they contend represents nothing more than ideology masquerading as serious scholarly activity, a group of conservative scholars found several things to cheer about when the National Association of Scholars (NAS) honored the authors of California’s Proposition 209 and heard Dr. Shelby Steele deliver a withering critique of affirmative action.

July 11, 2007

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Race board finds consensus elusive on public schools – President’s Advisory Board on Race

WASHINGTON The President’s Advisory Board on Race recently found that no national discussion on race in public schools is complete without conservatives invoking the controversial issue of education vouchers for poor children.

July 11, 2007

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Can race-talk really make a difference?

By the end of President Bill Clinton’s town hall meeting on race in early December, his audience had deteriorated to platitudes and cliches. I half-expected Rodney King to jump out of the Akron audience and plead, again, “Can’t we all just get along?”

July 11, 2007

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Mischief makers: the men behind all those anti-affirmative action lawsuits – includes news analysis on court decisions that affect diversity in higher education

When a group of Republican state lawmakers last summer mounted a public campaign to find potential plaintiffs for a class-action lawsuit against the University of Michigan’s affirmative action admissions policies, Jennifer Gratz responded immediately. Gratz, a policeman’s daughter and former high school homecoming queen, had been rejected by Michigan in 1995 despite strong grades and high standardized-test scores.

July 11, 2007

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Race relations issues overshadowed by furor over affirmative action

When you discuss race relations in higher education, the issues of diversity and affirmative action inevitably become a part of the dialogue. Unfortunately, those two topics often get confused as the same issue.

July 11, 2007

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Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin and Other Myths of Identity. – book reviews

Katya Gibel Azoulay seems perfectly placed to interrogate the intricacies of interracial and biracial, especially Black/ Jewish, identity formation. Azoulay’s mother was an Austrian Jew who fled the Nazi invasion. Her father is West Indian of mixed racial descent who migrated to this country as a child.

July 11, 2007

Latinx

Higher education expresses concerns with multiple-choice census

Now that the debate is over about whether the U.S. Census should add a multiracial category to its data collecting and the decision has been made to allow respondents to choose as many racial and ethnic classifications as they feel apply to them, the time has come to figure out how this new and confusing information will be tabulated.

July 11, 2007

Students

Derrick Bell: keeper of the flame – author of ‘Confronting Authority’ and Afro-American law professor at New York University

Editor’s note: No discussion of a commitment to diversity in higher education would be complete without talking to Derrick Bell. Unfortunately, as Black Issues was preparing the following article, Professor Bell fell ill and was unavailable for an interview. Black Issues is happy to report that at press time he was reported as doing better.

July 11, 2007