Tag: Race: Page 86

Students

Title IX: does help for women come at the expense of African Americans?

Gender equity has created an intriguing set of circumstances in the world of college athletics.

July 6, 2007

African-American

African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries

BRUSSELS, Belgium Professors at Howard and Fisk universities are proposing that an institute without walls be established by America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to assist developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific islands.

July 6, 2007

Sports

In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. – book reviews

Like former talk-show host Arsenio Hall, Kenneth L. Shropshire, in his excellent book, In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, discusses things that make you go “HMMMMM?”

July 6, 2007

STEM

Office for Civil Rights puts Texas on notice – investigation to determine Texas’ compliance with a Civil Rights provision

While Texas state officials scramble to adopt race-neutral admissions and financial aid policies in the state’s public higher education system? the U.S. Department of Education has opened an inquiry to determine whether the state is complying with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

News wrap up: Clinton speaks to American Council on Education

WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton thanked the American Council on Education (ACE) during the organization’s annual meeting late last month. The occasion marked the third time Clinton has addressed ACE, the premier voice of higher education, since he took office in 1992.

July 4, 2007

African-American

What’s in a name? African American or multiracial? – defining one’s self

The most important thing any oppressed people can do for themselves is to define who they are. Identity begins with naming yourself, in finding your own voice. This is the reason that names have always been significant to African Americans.

July 4, 2007

Home

A military strategy for combatting institutional racism

Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler’s pioneering study of Black leadership development and racial integration in the United States Army provides the reader with a glimpse into an institution that, while not utopian, has achieved remarkable success in race relations. That success was achieved because the U.S. Army developed policies which supported a philosophy that believed an absolute commitment to nondiscrimination and uncompromising standards of performance are absolutely necessary for achieving its goals. Indeed, the Army was able to relate nondiscrimination to goal attainment, which may be the key to solving many of the racial problems in contemporary American society.

July 4, 2007

Students

Open attacks on programs benefitting people of color – Impact 1996

California Passes Proposition 209

July 4, 2007

Home

Race is the talk of small Louisiana town

JENA La. It’s not yet 8 a.m. but there’s a line of men waiting for a $10 haircut at Doughty’s Westside Barber Shop.

July 4, 2007

STEM

Supreme Court ruling creates questions for Topeka’s schools

TOPEKA Kan. A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision could force the public school system here to modify the policies it has used for a decade to keep individual schools racially balanced, attorneys say.

July 2, 2007

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Race and the Roberts Court

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last Thursday to limit the use of race in public school integration programs will not halt integration entirely, but does create setbacks for communities aiming to promote diversity in public schools, says Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Harvard law school professor.

July 1, 2007

Health

HBCUs, Black Voters Figure Prominently In 2008 Presidential Race

There’s consensus among political experts that the location, moderator and audience at last week’s Democratic presidential debate, held at Howard University, forced candidates to discuss solutions to issues concerning Blacks and other minority voters. A second forum for candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination will be broadcast by PBS in September from another historically Black campus, Morgan State University in Baltimore.

July 1, 2007