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Leadership & Policy

More rigorous reporting needed – on affirmative action

WASHINGTON, D.C. When a news reporter fails o bring depth and sophistication to his or her reporting about affirmative action issues, he or she runs the risk of being a “megaphone for PR agents,” Harvard Law School Professor Christopher Edley Jr. told a gathering of more than fifty reporters and educators at a National Association of Black Journalists convention workshop here last month.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Out of the public eye – Bryant Gumbel – Cover Story – Interview

For fifteen years, Bryant Charles Gumbel was a part of America’s morning ritual. As the co-host of NBC’s Today Show, he would meet you at the morning breakfast table, wide-eyed and brimming with the new day’s headlines and trivia, which he delivered with his easy smile, sharp intellect, and quirky wit.

July 13, 2007

Growth among the credentialed class

People of color are earning advanced degrees at a pace that exceeds that of Whites, but can the pipeline’s momentum be sustained without affirmative action?

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

White administrators charge college with racism – Houston Community College

Houston White administrators at Houston Community College (HCC) have accused the institution of racial discrimination in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

July 12, 2007

African-American

Celebrating and deconstructing our educational progress

A recent Census Bureau report has good news about African American education. In Educational Attainment in the United States, the Census Bureau reported that 86.2 percent of African Americans ages twenty-five to twenty-nine were high school graduates in 1997, continuing an upward trend in the educational attainment of African Americans that began in 1940.

July 12, 2007

The surging degree wave

As the number of White students receiving college degrees has stayed steady for the last five years, the number of African American, Hispanic. Asian. and Native American degree recipients has soared.

July 12, 2007

Bilingual back talk: educators, politicians look for countermeasures to California initiative – Proposition 227

SAN FRANCISCO Just days after California voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to outlaw bilingual education, civil rights groups have filed suit to challenge the new law and school districts are finding ways around it.

July 12, 2007

The pragmatism of Bakke – affirmative action

This month’s twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Bakke v. University of California is an odd occasion to commemorate. The Bakke case is the earliest in which the Supreme Court directly addressed affirmative action. But like much of the affirmative action debate, Bakke is as symbolic as it is real. Appropriately, given its resolution at the time, the Bakke case presents multiple meanings today.

July 12, 2007

Minority enrollment creeps upward at Texas universities: new recruitment strategies and the 10 percent law credited with upturn

AUSTIN, Texas Black and Latino enrollments are beginning to edge upward again at public universities in Texas after the severe drop caused by the 1996 Hopwood decision, which dismantled affirmative action at Texas’s public universities.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

African American college presidents in decline

Yet the pipeline of Black scholars poised to assume presidential status is growing

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Reflections of a trailblazer – African American Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., former president of Michigan State University – Cover Story – Interview

Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr., reflects on his career and shares his insight on the current status of African Americans in higher education

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Professors want affirmative action back – University of California at Berkeley faculty

Berkeley, Calif. A group of University of California-Berkeley faculty members — alarmed about plunging admissions of African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the aftermath of California’s Proposition 209 — are the latest group to urge passage of a new, student-authored measure called the Equal Educational Opportunity Initiative (EEOI).

July 12, 2007

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