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Perspectives: Asian Americans Aren’t White Folks’ ‘Racial Mascots’

Although usually excluded from discussions about civil rights, Asian Americans are increasingly introduced as an argument against racial diversity. Yet like all Americans, Asian immigrants and their native-born children benefit from the modest efforts to include everyone in the American Dream.

October 3, 2006

Disabilties

Needed: More Parental Input

I think [the column] highlights some of the problems with entrusting the education of our young people to the public school system…

September 20, 2006

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Life for Muslim-Americans Drastically Different After 9/11

HOUSTON Many lives changed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But Muslim-Americans say that, as a group, the change for them has been dramatic, generally negative and certainly long-lasting.

September 8, 2006

Students

Perspectives: When Minority Students Take Ownership of Their Education, Expect Great Things

The structure of higher education should be entirely re-imagined, permitting students opportunities to learn beyond classroom walls. Such a change would not only benefit all students, but would have profound positive consequences for first-generation and underrepresented minority students.

August 29, 2006

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Just the Stats

Not well, unfortunately, and some of the Whitest schools are in the Southern states with large Black populations…

August 23, 2006

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Female Lawyers Of Color Jumping Ship From Big Firms, Study Says

HONOLULU An American Indian attorney is asked where she keeps her tomahawk. White male partners look past a Black lawyer, assuming she is clerical staff. An Asian attorney is called a “dragon lady” when she asserts herself.

August 6, 2006

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Civil Rights Panel: Law School Affirmative Action May Hurt Blacks

Is American Bar Association-mandated affirmative action among U.S. law schools ultimately helping or hurting prospective Black attorneys?…

July 12, 2006

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Just the Stats: Minorities in Law Schools

At a recent U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing, prominent law professors debated the pros and cons of law school admissions affirmative action policies. Both supporters and critics agree that affirmative action is largely responsible for the tremendous increase in the number of Blacks admitted to law schools over the last few decades.

June 28, 2006

Students

NCCU Goes on Offense: We’re Not a “Poor Cousin” to Duke

In its coverage of the Duke University men’s lacrosse rape story, the media for months has contrasted the elite, privileged world of Duke with the struggling-to-get-by image of the historically Black North Carolina Central University, where the alleged rape victim is a student.

June 26, 2006

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Civil Rights Panel: Law School Affirmative Action May Hurt Blacks

Is American Bar Association-mandated affirmative action among U.S. law schools ultimately helping or hurting prospective Black attorneys? The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hosted a panel Friday to examine this issue, and the consensus was decidedly mixed.

June 18, 2006

African-American

Bite Size Briefs

Bar Association’s Affirmative Action policy; Arkansas Black Studies funding; Michigan diversity grading system; Federal panel to question law school affirmative action policy.

June 13, 2006

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Professional Appointments

Dr. Antoine M. Garibaldi, president of Gannon University, has been elected chair of the Council of Independent Colleges. He will serve a two-year term. Garibaldi earned a bachelor’s from Howard University and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota. Dr. David A. Caruso has been named president of Antioch University, New England effective July 1. […]

May 31, 2006