Tag: Affirmative Action: Page 31

Latinx

A United Way

Capitalizing on the Opportunity for Black/Latino Cooperation

July 14, 2007

Students

The Pursuit of Meritocratic and Egalitarian Ideals on College Campuses

On almost every campus in the nation, two projects are clearly in view. One is the maintenance of meritocracy; the other is the pursuit of an egalitarian ideal.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Black Faculty Congress Advances Research Agenda

WASHINGTON The National Congress of Black Faculty met here last month for their twelfth annual conference to discuss a host of topics that ranged from affirmative action’s impact on Black access to higher education, to the role of Black scholars in shaping public policy, to the importance of computer literacy.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Career CONSULTANTS

DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: I am contemplating accepting a position as a minority affairs coordinator at a traditionally White institution. It is rumored that such positions can be dead-end career busters. Are there conditions or considerations that I should insist on before accepting the position?

July 14, 2007

African-American

Letters To The Editor

If one of the editorial goals of Black Issues In Higher Education is to advocate and expand the base of those who seek to increase educational opportunities for Blacks, care must be most intensive when reporting the results of various studies that address any issue pertinent to the stated goal. This includes the issue of affirmative action.

July 14, 2007

Students

Poll Confirms that Americans Want Diversity on Campuses

Most Americans say that college students need to know about different kinds of people and how to get along with them. There also seems to be a national consensus that colleges should have diverse student bodies and faculties, as well as courses that focus on diversity.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The River Running Through College Admissions. – Review – book reviews

If you don’t read another book about higher education this year, you must read William G. Bowen’s and Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (Princeton University Press, 1998).

July 14, 2007

Students

UCLA feeder program takes sting out of anti-affirmative action policies – University of California, Los Angeles

VALLEY GLEN, Calif. While other teenagers were chilling in malls or bronzing at the beaches this summer, 16-year-old Gloria Sanchez of Panorama City was busy going to college.

July 14, 2007

Home

Despite education, black workers still face challenges

With the unemployment rate at a twenty-eight-year low of 4.5 percent, and discussion of discrimination unpopula in this post-affirmative action era, scant attention has been focused on the unemployment rate gap and the differential status of African American workers. But yes, there is still an unemployment rate gap, and it widened — not narrowed — in the face of economic prosperity.

July 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Measuring standards measuring success – Miles To Go report from Southern Education Foundation criticized

Two discouraging reports on educational progress, or the lack thereof, emerged in the last couple of weeks. The first was Miles To Go from the Southern Education Foundation (see cover story, “The Long, Winding, And Neglected Road”), which documents the continuing effects of segregation and the new effects of the anti-affirmative action backlash on African Americans in the South. The second was the latest report from the College Board of the latest SAT scores (see story, page 24), which showed a drop in average scores for African Americans.

July 14, 2007

Home

Northwest passage? The state of Washington’s Initiative 200 is next round in national struggle over affirmative action

The state of Washington’s Initiative 200 is next round in the national struggle over affirmative action

July 14, 2007

Students

Besieged, bothered, and bewildered: affirmative action director charges Pitt-Johnstown president with discrimination, harassment and retaliation – University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. According to the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown’s affirmative action director, the institution’s president told her that he did not believe in affirmative action and would do everything possible to avoid implementing its principles.

July 13, 2007