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Merger no longer a threat for Mississippi Valley State

Over the years as the fate of a small, Black, rural institution unfolded in and out of the court, business was as usual as it could have been at Mississippi Valley State University.

June 17, 2007

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Who benefits from affirmative action? – Whites are key beneficiaries of special admission standards at Washington State

In the midst of all the current breast-beating about affirmative action, the Washington State Commission on African-American Affairs has found that data — provided by four-year institutions and compiled by the Washington State Office of Financial Management show that whites are the key beneficiaries of “special/alternative admission standards” and affirmative action affecting hiring at Washington States’s four-year schools. The beneficiaries include significant numbers of white men as well as white women.

June 17, 2007

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Fighting back: affirmative action professionals on the front line – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

WASHINGTON If the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in the matter of Hopwood vs. Texas is a body blow for affirmative action, minority advocates in higher education are trying hard not to show it.

June 17, 2007

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Studies refute perceptions of open admissions and educational attainment – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

Ultimately, the question of affirmative action will not be decided in the Supreme Court but by the public, which has been barraged by arguments that no matter what can be said about fairness and justice, affirmative action — and even desegregation — “just doesn’t work.”

June 17, 2007

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Texas case not binding in U.S – affirmative action programs in college admissions

States must not abandon long-held practices on affirmative action because of a recent court decision in Texas, the U.S. Education Department (ED) says.

June 17, 2007

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Texas ruling may dismantle affirmative action – ruling on preferred treatment of minority for college admission

Austin, TX In a decision that could dismantle 20 years of affirmative action, a federal appeals court has ruled that the University of Texas should not have given preferred treatment to minorities admitted to its School of Law.

June 16, 2007

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Mississippi mayhem – Mississippi desegregation ruling may harm black college applicants

At this time of year, college recruiters are processing the flood of applications from potential students. But not at Mississippi Valley State University.

June 16, 2007

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Stopping the raid on student aid

Washington In an assessment of the past political year at a Quality Education for Minorities luncheon, Dr. David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education said that threats to financial aid have been defeated and that affirmative action is still alive.

June 16, 2007

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On-line and loving it – historically Black colleges and universities going on-line to lure students and research funding – Recruitment & Retention

New Students, Research Dollars Lured via Internet Web Pages by a Growing Number of HBCUs.

June 15, 2007

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Texas Top 10 Admissions Law To Stay

AUSTIN The Texas House on Sunday rejected a bill that would have limited the number of students automatically admitted to public universities under the state’s top 10 percent law.

May 27, 2007

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University of California Marks Decade of Race-blind Admissions

BERKELEY, Calif. A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997. That’s when he was the lone Black student enrolled in the incoming law school class at the University of California, Berkeley, following the end of affirmative action admissions.

May 6, 2007

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MIT Dean Resigns for Faking Her Academic Credentials

Marilee Jones, a prominent crusader against the pressure on students to build their resumes for elite colleges, resigned Thursday as dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after acknowledging she had misrepresented her own academic credentials.

April 26, 2007