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Bailing out Piscataway school board: civil rights groups avoid possibility of allowing Supreme Court to make “bad law.” – Piscataway, New Jersey, case before U.S. Supreme Court

The settlement of a New Jersey reverse discrimination case by civil rights groups has headed off a potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling many activists believe would have dealt a death blow to affirmative action programs in the United States.

July 11, 2007

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The myth of educational attainment: when a Black woman’s master’s degree equals a White woman’s bachelor’s degree – Picataway, MJ, school board, teachers, lawsuit – Column

The Black Leadership Forum — an organization that includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Urban League, the National Council of Negro Women, and others — deflected energy from the controversial Taxman v. Piscataway case that the Supreme Court had committed to hear this session. The forum agreed to finance 70 percent of the nearly $450,000 settlement that the plaintiff and her lawyers will receive from the Piscataway school board.

July 11, 2007

Latinx

March planned to support affirmative action: Latino law students and professors confront threat of limited access

Albequerque, N.M. A gathering here last month of organizations representing Latino law students agreed to form a national organization to support a pro-affirmative action march, scheduled for January in San Francisco, being organized by legal educators.

July 11, 2007

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“Hostile environment”: reducing applications to medical schools nationwide – elimination of affirmative action in California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi

WASHINGTON – The elimination of affirmative action in California, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi has had a chilling effect on the enrollment and acceptance of racial and ethnic minorities in medical schools across the country, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

July 11, 2007

Latinx

Higher education expresses concerns with multiple-choice census

Now that the debate is over about whether the U.S. Census should add a multiracial category to its data collecting and the decision has been made to allow respondents to choose as many racial and ethnic classifications as they feel apply to them, the time has come to figure out how this new and confusing information will be tabulated.

July 11, 2007

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Web site established to showcase higher education diversity initiatives

In the effort to boost diversity on the nation’s college and university campuses, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has enlisted the Internet to educate administrators, faculty and student about effective diversity practices.

July 11, 2007

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Lee may be given a recess appointment – appointment of Bill Lann Lee as assistant attorney general

Despite Senate Republican opposition, Bill Lann Lee may still become assistant attorney general in charge of civil rights, if only on a temporary basis.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Committed to diversity? Where’s the evidence? – Special Report – Cover Story

An often-expressed apprehension within the Black community is that traditionally White institutions were never really committed to integration, diversity, or affirmative action. The fear was that many of these colleges undertook halfhearted minority student recruitment and retention efforts and occasional Black faculty/staff appointments while waiting for relief from conservative courts, legislatures and voters.

July 11, 2007

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Private college recruiters minimize 209/Hopwood impact – California’s Proposition 209; US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Hopwood decision

WASHINGTON In spite of California’s Proposition 209 and the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Hopwood decision. minority students who hope to go on to major institutions of higher education shouldn’t fret.

July 11, 2007

Students

College ends race-based scholarship programs at behest of Education Department – Northern Virginia Community College

ANNANDALE, Va. A Virginia community college will end five small ace-based scholarship programs following a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

July 11, 2007

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Higher education groups announce campaign to support race initiative

Miami Two leading national higher education organizations have announced a year-long campaign to encourage the nation’s colleges and universities to launch activities in support of U.S. President Bill Clinton’s national dialogue on race relations.

July 11, 2007

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Black/Brown coalition fights back – University of Texas minority students

Austin In a recent speech at the University of Texas, the Rev. Jesse Jackson counseled a spirited crowd of several thousand chanting students to “turn a minus into a plus” as they thought about how to respond to the comments of UT law professor Lino Graglia who said blacks and Hispanics come from cultures where “failure is not considered a disaster.”

July 11, 2007