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UNCF Launches New Jersey Law Scholars Program

UNCF Launches New Jersey Law Scholars ProgramNEWARK, N.J.Over the next three years, nine students from historically Black colleges will get full scholarships to New Jersey law schools through a donation from a Lucent corporate executive and his wife. The United Negro College Fund’s New Jersey Law Scholars Program is the first of its kind in […]

June 20, 2001

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Supreme Court Declines to Review Affirmative Action Case

Supreme Court Declines to Review Affirmative Action CaseDecision leaves education observers wondering when Court will revisit the issueBy Ronald A. TaylorWASHINGTONThe U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to let stand a federal appeals court ruling on the University of Washington law school’s now-revised admissions policy left affirmative action advocates applauding, quota opponents grumbling and both […]

June 20, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Report Addresses Allegations of Racism at Florida Law School

Report Addresses Allegations of Racism at Florida Law School GAINESVILLE, Fla.Aconsultant’s report on racial issues at the University of Florida College of Law says the school’s major problem is a “culture of name calling” in which professors lash out at each other through e-mail and in faculty meetings. “Everyone, almost without exception, complained about a […]

April 25, 2001

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‘Black’ Law Schools Face Challenges Of a New Day

‘Black’ Law Schools Face Challenges Of a New DayHoward University School of Law is the pre-eminent “Black” law school in this country. Its history of renowned lawyers, academics and jurists make it a respected institution, transcending racial and ethnic barriers. Administrators and alumni work together at Howard Law to effectively hold non-Black enrollment to 20 […]

April 11, 2001

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Turning Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping Stones

Turning Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping StonesFinancial exigency, familial, societal and cultural pressures, and educational deficits force many minority law students to make hard choices about whether they should study law. Yet, Black law school graduates today demonstrate that they have the intestinal fortitude to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones and succeed against daunting odds. […]

April 11, 2001

Students

Reinventing Howard’s Law School

Reinventing Howard’s Law SchoolDean Alice Gresham Bullock is determined to keep the nation’s oldest historically Black law school relevant to 21st century realities. By Gwendolyn GlennWASHINGTONWhen Alice Gresham Bullock was named dean of the Howard University School of Law in 1997, beating out candidates such as Harvard University’s Charles Ogletree, not everyone was pleased. Some […]

April 11, 2001

HBCUs

Continuing the Legacy, but Looking Ahead to the Future

Continuing the Legacy, but Looking Ahead to the FutureWith a recent decision in the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions case, (Grutter v. Bollinger et. al.), declaring that the use of race as a factor in college admissions is unconstitutional, it seems appropriate that this edition of Black Issues In Higher Education features one of […]

April 11, 2001

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UGA Experiences Decline Among Black Applicants

UGA Experiences Decline Among Black Applicants ATHENS, Ga. Fewer than 900 Black high school seniors have applied for admission to the University of Georgia this fall — a drop of almost 20 percent from last year. Just 897 Black seniors had applied by Feb. 1, down from 1,100 who had applied by Feb. 1, 2000. […]

February 28, 2001

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Court Rules Jackson State Cannot Justify Law School

Court Rules Jackson State Cannot Justify Law SchoolJACKSON, Miss. A federal judge overseeing Mississippi’s long-running college desegregation suit says historically Black Jackson State University cannot justify the need for a new law school. The ruling, by U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr., comes as parties continue settlement talks in the case. The law school, which […]

January 31, 2001

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Michigan Law School Prepares for Historic Affirmative Action Trial

Michigan Law School Prepares for Historic Affirmative Action Trial By Erik LordsDetroit When an affirmative action lawsuit against the University of Michigan’s law school goes to trial here this month, it will be thick with historical significance.Lawyers for a group of intervening minority students in the case will present an unprecedented legal argument, and they […]

January 17, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Battle Lines Drawn Over Clinton’s Appointment of Black Judge to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals

Battle Lines Drawn Over Clinton’s Appointment of Black Judge to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals WashingtonP resident Clinton late last month appointed Virginia lawyer Roger Gregory to the all-White 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond.And it didn’t take long for conservative members of the U.S. Senate to undertake the task of keeping the […]

January 17, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Law School Admission Council Creates $10 Million Diversity Initiative

Law School Admission Council Creates $10 Million Diversity InitiativeNewton, Pa.T he Law School Admission Council has created a $10 million, 5-year effort to encourage law schools to rethink their admission policies and adopt strategies that will achieve greater diversity in the legal profession.Called the “Initiative to Advance Education on the LSAT,” the effort comes in […]

January 17, 2001