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Community Colleges

Partnership Gives Teacher Education Students a Head Start

Partnership Gives Teacher Education Students a Head Start MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.Central Michigan University will join three Michigan community colleges to pilot a new admissions program intended to help potential teacher education students get a jump on their course requirements.Starting this fall, the university will initiate a provisional admissions program for teacher education transfer students from […]

August 27, 2003

Affirmative Action Fight Far From Over, Urban League Panelists Say

Affirmative Action Fight Far From Over, Urban League Panelists Say PITTSBURGHThe U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the use of race as a factor in college admissions was a victory for affirmative action supporters, but they say the fight will continue in state legislatures and on ballot initiatives. “We cannot be sanguine about this fight,” said […]

August 27, 2003

Civil Rights Groups, Berkeley Settle Lawsuit Over Admissions Policy

Civil Rights Groups, Berkeley Settle Lawsuit Over Admissions PolicyBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision giving a green light to race-conscious admissions was grabbing headlines, another challenge over race and admissions was quietly coming to closure. Civil rights groups settled with the University of California at Berkeley in a 4-year-old lawsuit charging that […]

July 30, 2003

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]

July 2, 2003

Survey: Most Support a Diverse College Campus, But Not Admissions by Race Alone

Survey: Most Support a Diverse College Campus, But Not Admissions by Race AlonePOUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.A new national survey finds that public opinion on racial considerations in college admissions shows that most Americans support having a diverse collegiate population, but do not feel that race alone should be a factor. The survey, conducted by Marist College’s Institute […]

July 2, 2003

Class-Based Affirmative Action

Class-Based Affirmative ActionBattle over race-conscious approaches pushes idea to the surfaceBy Ronald RoachIn an effort to highlight and promote race-neutral approaches to college and graduate school admissions at competitive institutions, the Bush administration has recently put a bright spotlight on the idea of class-based or economic affirmative action. Touted by Bush officials as a race-neutral […]

June 18, 2003

A Time for Innovative Thinking

A Time for Innovative ThinkingIn a recent article in Black Issues In Higher Education, a U.S. Department of Education official stated that he knew of few strategies for making graduate and professional school accessible to African Americans. Since I knew of at least one (I developed it), I e-mailed it to him. He remarked on […]

June 4, 2003

More Colleges Will Require Writing Tests of Future Freshmen

More Colleges Will Require Writing Tests of Future FreshmenSTATE COLLEGE, Pa.A growing number of colleges will require future applicants to take a standardized writing test, even though some admissions officials question the value of such tests. Penn State University, which receives 50,000 undergraduate applications each year, announced last month that it would require students applying […]

June 4, 2003

Faculty & Staff

UC Regents Turn the Tables on Ward Connerly

UC Regents Turn the Tables on Ward Connerly Regents oppose initiative to outlaw collection of racial data even as Connerly predicts victory at the ballot boxBy Pamela Burdman SAN FRANCISCO The University of California Board of Regents went on the offensive recently against fellow regent Ward Connerly, formally opposing his campaign to outlaw the collection […]

June 4, 2003

Lawmakers Link Affirmative Action, K-12 Funding Issues Race-conscious admissions help ‘right’ inequities in local school financing, coalition says

Lawmakers Link Affirmative Action, K-12 Funding Issues Race-conscious admissions help ‘right’ inequities in local school financing, coalition says By Charles Dervarics A congressional coalition is seeking to link two of the most contentious issues in education today — unequal K-12 funding and affirmative action in higher education. U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., who is leading […]

June 4, 2003

Legislation Seeks to Broaden Access to HOPE Scholarship

Legislation Seeks to Broaden Access to HOPE ScholarshipBy Charles Dervarics A congressional coalition is seeking to link two of the most contentious issues in education today — unequal K-12 funding and affirmative action in higher education. U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., who is leading the coalition, says unequal funding and affirmative action are directly related. […]

June 4, 2003

Miami-Dade to Offer Degree In Language Translation

Miami-Dade to Offer Degree In Language TranslationMIAMIMiami-Dade Community College will offer the country’s first associate’s degree in translation/interpretation starting this month.With the large influx of foreign-born residents growing in and around south Florida, it was only a matter of time before the college started the course, according to Dr. Thomas Meyer, chair of ESL and […]

May 21, 2003

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