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Faculty & Staff

Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana. – book reviews

Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana by Adam Fairclough, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1995 $34.95.

June 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Academy, AAUP Confronted on Low Faculty Diversity

Faculty members concerned about diversity took the academy as well as the American Association of University Professors to task for not doing enough to promote diversity at one session of AAUP’s 93rd annual meeting, “Telling the Truth at Difficult Times,” which started June 7 and concluded yesterday.

June 11, 2007

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Law Professor Finds Lynchings Have Lasting Impact On Race Relations

SALISBURY, Md. TEASER: The last two recorded lynchings in Maryland, in 1931 and 1933, and other incidents of racial violence in the Jim Crow era on the Eastern Shore, still affect the region, University of Maryland law professor Sherrilyn Ifill argues in her book On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century.

June 5, 2007

Sports

The Prevalence of Black Females In College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion

If you had a chance to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship in April, you probably noticed that 80 percent of the starters for Rutgers and Tennessee were non-White.

May 30, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Race Cited as a Factor for Condemnation of Ohio U President

Its been an eventful month for Ohio University President Roderick McDavis, whose tenure has drawn competing letters of condemnation and support, spawned rival student protests and rallies, and generated open forums, administrative changes and a show of unwavering support from the board of trustees.

May 14, 2007

Students

University of California Marks Decade of Race-blind Admissions

BERKELEY, Calif. A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997. That’s when he was the lone Black student enrolled in the incoming law school class at the University of California, Berkeley, following the end of affirmative action admissions.

May 6, 2007

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Affirmative Action Admits Tend To Be More Successful Than Legacy Admits, Says Study

Researchers at Princeton University have found that students who received legacy admissions are more likely to face academic challenges than Blacks who were admitted under affirmative action admissions programs.

April 25, 2007

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Perspectives: ‘Hair’ We Go Again: Race Talk and Non-Authentic Dialogue

What wasn’t, and should have been, covered in the Don Imus flap. Why do we fail to look beneath the veneer, beyond the smoke and mirrors, to focus on the true issues?

April 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Prairie View Boosters Petition For University To Leave Texas A&M System

A group of Prairie View A&M University alumni and university donors are petitioning the Texas A&M University System to either address concerns that its regents don’t represent the university’s interests, or let the university secede from the university system.

April 22, 2007

Students

Asian Americans Urge Not to Stereotype Community

Asian-American community members are fearful of a backlash given the recent events at Virginia Tech and are urging Americans not to reduce the tragedy into stereotypical assumptions about Asian Americans or Korean Americans in particular.

April 19, 2007

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Just the Stats: Socioeconomic Gaps Persist For Students

College freshmen today are more affluent than at any point over the past 35 years, but they say they not very concerned about race relations and are not as prepared for college as they’d like to be, according to a recent report from the University of California, Los Angeles titled “American Freshmen: Forty-Year Trends, 1966-2006.”

April 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

IU Reconsiders Gym’s Name Over Segregationist Letters

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Indiana University officials are considering whether to keep the name of a longtime school trustee on a gymnasium following a student newspaper article about 1940s letters in which he advocated racial segregation.

April 12, 2007