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Cause for Action

Advocates for a more inclusive legal profession are worried about the decline in Black law student enrollment

July 11, 2007

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Colorado State Considers Delaying, Weakening College Entrance Standards

GOLDEN Colo. Colorado officials on Tuesday proposed delaying or weakening tough new college admission standards after complaints that the state doesn’t have enough high school teachers to add the required courses.

July 10, 2007

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Law schools, measures of merit and the public’s perception of the legal profession

I see the affirmative action debate and the role of the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) in that debate as the major challenges facing this organization – and legal education – over the next several years.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

“We definitely cannot drop the goals of affirmative action”: a discussion with Dr. Carmen Neuberger, Gwendolyn J. Dungy and Joyce Smith – Panel Discussion

Countless studies have shown that what happens outside of classrooms plays a crucial role in whether students attend college and continue in college to graduation. High school guidance counselors, admissions officers and campus student service officers all play a part in matching the right student to the right campus and then making sure the students feel a part of campus life.

July 10, 2007

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Chat Transcripts (Unedited): “US Supreme Court and Desegregation”

See the full unedited transcript of our June 10, 2007 chat event, focusing on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling and its implications for equal access to education.

July 10, 2007

Students

Surveying the battleground in the fight for access – equal opportunity in education cases

Forty-three years have passed since the Supreme Court issued its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated the nation’s public schools, yet America’s war over equal educational opportunities continues to rage. And the most heated battles in recent years have centered around access to education at the postsecondary level.

July 7, 2007

Students

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi – excerpts from the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in the case of Ayers v. Fordice

April 23, 1997 Before KING, JOLLY, and DENNIS–Circuit Judges. KING, Circuit Judge: This case concerns the obligation of the State of Mississippi and the other defendants to dismantle the system of de jure segregation that was maintained in public universities in Mississippi.

July 7, 2007

Students

Mississippi churning – court rulings on racial inequality in higher education in Mississippi – includes related articles on court rulings in the case of Ayers v. Fordice and precedence of Hopwood v. The State of Texas – Cover Story

After twenty-two years of continuous litigation in the federal courts, the legal battle that has engulfed Mississippi’s system of higher education, Ayers v. Fordice, appears to have no end in sight. Parties on both sides of the struggle have grown weary of the case, and some say they would like to strike an agreement that would end the protracted court battles and put desegregation efforts on a clear decisive course.

July 7, 2007

Students

Smaller Texas institutions expect increased minority presence as a result of Hopwood decision

Austin, Texas While the University of Texas and Texas A&M University have experienced a decline in minority applicants because of the Hopwood ruling, officials at Stephen F. Austin State University in eastern Texas anticipate an increase in minority enrollment this fall.

July 7, 2007

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Texas educators seek clarification on Hopwood decision

Austin, Texas As African American admissions at Texas’s elite public universities go into a free-fall because of the Hopwood ruling, a free-for-all has ensued over the interpretation of the court decision that ended affirmative action in higher education in the state.

July 7, 2007

Students

Harvard scholars convene civil rights think tank – Cover Story

Cambridge, Mass. Recent court rulings against affirmative action have left some college admissions and financial aid officers asking, “If we can’t consider race as part of the admissions process, then how can we make sure Blacks, Latinos and other underrepresented ethnic groups are not shut out of higher education?”

July 7, 2007

STEM

Office for Civil Rights puts Texas on notice – investigation to determine Texas’ compliance with a Civil Rights provision

While Texas state officials scramble to adopt race-neutral admissions and financial aid policies in the state’s public higher education system? the U.S. Department of Education has opened an inquiry to determine whether the state is complying with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

July 6, 2007