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University of Michigan replaces scrapped scholarships

ANN ARBOR Mich. The University of Michigan has replaced scholarships eliminated in the wake of a voter-approved ban on preferential treatment based on race and gender at public universities.

June 21, 2007

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Diversifying Diversity. – book reviews

Dr. Roosevelt Thomas is the author of “Beyond Race and Gender” and the founder and president of The American Institute for Managing Diversity, Inc.

June 20, 2007

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Judge Suspends Prosecutor Over Handling of Duke University Rape

DURHAM, N.C. A judge suspended a North Carolina district attorney effective immediately Tuesday after learning the prosecutor, disbarred for his handling of a Duke University rape case, intended to stay in office for another month.

June 20, 2007

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Gender gap – education of African Americans

Since the early 1980s, the American Council on Education (ACE) has been collecting and disseminating educational data annually on racial and ethnic minorities.Among its findings in 1996 is that students of color have posted significant gains in college enrollment and the number of degrees they earned — yet the picture is decidedly mixed for different racial and ethnic minority groups.

June 19, 2007

HBCUs

Supreme Court ruling on VMI not a legal burden to HBCUs – Virginia Military Institute, historically Black colleges and universities

Historically Black colleges and universities probably won’t face another legal barrage now that the Supreme Court has eradicated single-gender education at Virginia Military Institute, discrimination law experts say.

June 18, 2007

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Affirmative action: forging a constitutionally acceptable solution – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

Fundamental to any discussion of affirmative action’s legality is its definition. Affirmative action does not mean numerical quotas, the selection of someone solely on the basis of race or gender, or the selection of the unqualified over the qualified.

June 17, 2007

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‘Savings’ on California initiative challenged – California Civil Rights Initiative – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

Proponents of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) tout it as a measure that will bring about substantial savings to state-house coffers by abolishing so-called state-sponsored discrimination in the form of affirmative action programs.

June 17, 2007

Latinx

Chicano studies: forging identity – development of Chicano studies as a discipline

Carlos Munoz, Chicano studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says the relatively large influx of Chicano students into universities unleashed a political movement focused on civil and human rights and an intellectual movement that both challenged historical knowledge and created the discipline of Chicano studies.

June 16, 2007

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Black, feminist, outspoken and unintimidated – arguments for feminist concerns of Black women

Beverly Guy-Sheftal’s masterful anthology of African-American feminist thought, “Words of Fire,” is a reminder that African-American women sometimes publicly expressed feminist thought before white women did.

June 16, 2007

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Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream. – book reviews

Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and The American Dream Edited by Don Belton, Beacon Press, 1995 $24.00.

June 16, 2007

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Gifted Black male writers flex their intellects – criticism on an anthology of Black male writers

In the opening essay of “Speak My Name,” titled, “How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?” novelist Trey Ellis recounts this joke by the comedian Franklin Ajaye:

June 16, 2007

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Women still face “chilly classroom climate.” – classroom environment in women’s education

To ensure that women are treated fairly in college classrooms it is not enough for colleges to end discriminatory behavior. They need to change a “chilly classroom climate,” says a new study by the National Association for Women in Education.

June 16, 2007