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Students

Newly Nominated Defense Secretary Praised for Diversity Efforts as TAMU President

The newly nominated U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has been praised for increasing the number minority students at Texas A&M University, where he is currently president. Reportedly he has been able to increase diversity without using race as a factor – but according to one leading education official, that is not entirely true.

November 19, 2006

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Michigan Affirmative Action Ban Renews Debate

WASHINGTON, D.C. Michigan voters may have ended affirmative action programs in the state but they have not ended the debate. The predicted impact of the voter-approved Proposal 2, along with two upcoming U.S. Supreme Court cases on race-conscious school assignments, continues to ignite arguments for and against affirmative action.

November 16, 2006

African-American

Still Dealing AT Duke

Dr. Karla Holloway, the William R. Kenan Professor of English at Duke University

November 15, 2006

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Prop. 209 Puts UC at Competitive Disadvantage, Say Officials

Barred by a California state law that prohibits the use of race in hiring and public college admissions…

November 15, 2006

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Race Disparities in Education, Income, and Home Ownership Persist

WASHINGTON Decades after the civil rights movement, racial disparities in income, education and home ownership persist and, by some measurements, are growing.

November 14, 2006

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University of Michigan President Vows to Fight for Diversity Despite New Law

ANN ARBOR, Mich. University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman said Wednesday that the school will go to court to defend its efforts to promote diversity in the wake of voter approval of a ban on some types of affirmative action programs.

November 8, 2006

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Michigan Voters Ban Affirmative Action

California conservative Ward Connerly chalked up another victory Tuesday in his assault on affirmative action programs, as Michigan voters approved a ballot initiative that bans affirmative action in state contracting and employment and public university admissions.

November 7, 2006

Health

UVa Conference on Hurricane Katrina and Race Looks For Answers

In a biting, angry attack on the Bush administration, NAACP chairman Julian Bond equated the president’s handling of Katrina with a “lynching” of Black people, calling it a “deliberate effort to dispossess Black landowners.”

November 6, 2006

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The Trouble With Diversity

Liberals say it’s important to use race as a criterion in college admissions and conservatives say that’s reverse discrimination…

November 1, 2006

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Lawsuit Blasts Minority Journalism Program

Several colleges and universities that sponsor high school summer journalism workshops for minorities…

November 1, 2006

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Scholars Gear Up to Defend School Desegregation

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear two school desegregation cases…

November 1, 2006

STEM

UC Professors Propose Diversity-focused Admissions Changes

A group of University of California professors on Friday proposed changing the way the UC system admits students by putting more emphasis on an applicant’s personal background.

October 29, 2006