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Taking a Stand on the Movement

Taking a Stand on the MovementSome in HBCU Community Oppose Bachelor Degree Programs at Community Colleges, Others Say Wait and See As president of Jackson State University, Mississippi’s largest four-year historically Black university, Dr. Ronald Mason has a clear position on the prospect of the state’s community colleges offering four-year degree programs. While state officials […]

May 21, 2003

Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action

Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action By Charles DervaricsRace-conscious college admissions hurt low-income minority students by pitting them against more affluent African American and Latino youth who could afford college anyway, U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige says. In his latest effort to push race-neutral college admissions, Paige told an Education Department conference audience that race-conscious admissions […]

May 21, 2003

Taking Supreme Action

Taking Supreme Action Michigan proceedings offer some hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will affirm the use of race in academic admissions, say affirmative action proponents. But critics are more skeptical.By Ronald Roach WASHINGTONFollowing the oral arguments heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in the University of Michigan cases earlier this month, affirmative action proponents […]

April 23, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Education Department Highlights ‘Race-Neutral’ Admissions Initiatives

Education Department Highlights ‘Race-Neutral’ Admissions InitiativesAmericans should not look to achieve diversity through affirmative action, secretary saysBy Charles Dervarics Americans should not look to achieve diversity through affirmative action and other “shortcuts that divide us by race,” says U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige as he mounts a new Bush administration campaign to showcase ‘race-neutral’ approaches […]

April 23, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Coalition Challenges Virginia Tech Ban on Affirmative Action

Coalition Challenges Virginia Tech Ban on Affirmative ActionBLACKSBURG, Va. Black alumni of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) were joined by Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and others last month in expressing disapproval of the university’s board of visitors decision to bar the consideration of race and gender in the campus admissions, hiring and […]

April 9, 2003

Colleges Prepare for Possible End to Affirmative Action

Colleges Prepare for Possible End to Affirmative ActionInterest in alternatives to race-conscious admissions high at Quality Education for Minorities conferenceBy Cheryl D. Fields WASHINGTON With the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing of arguments in the University of Michigan’s affirmative action cases only weeks away, the tone of the annual Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) conference held […]

March 12, 2003

The Art and Science Of College Admissions

The Art and Science Of College Admissions By Julianne Malveaux President George W. Bush says he thinks the University of Michigan’s affirmative action plan is “divisive” and a “de facto quota system” because it admits students solely on the basis of race. Either President Bush is woefully misinformed or he has chosen to ignore the […]

February 26, 2003

Recruitment & Retention

Replacing Race-Conscious Admissions Policies

Replacing Race-Conscious Admissions PoliciesAre percentage plans the wave of the future? By Kendra Hamilton When President George W. Bush denounced the University of Michigan for maintaining a “quota” system for undergraduate and law admissions that was “divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution,” he clearly signaled his desire that the U.S. Supreme Court […]

February 26, 2003

African-American

Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions

Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions * From “Closing the Gap?: Texas College Enrollments Before and After Affirmative Action”Rates of admission for minority applicants at Texas’ flagship institutions fell sharply after the ban on affirmative action. For African Americans applying to Texas A&M University, the probability of admission fell from 74.9 […]

February 26, 2003

Living in a Post-Affirmative Action World

Living in a Post-Affirmative Action WorldRuling against Michigan could boost minority achievement, says one scholar. But others are not so optimistic. By Ronald Roach Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to rule on the constitutionality of the University of Michigan’s undergraduate and law school admissions plans, Americans already are living in a post-affirmative […]

February 26, 2003

The Challenge to Affirmative Action — The Rise of the ‘Percentage Plan’

The Challenge to Affirmative Action — The Rise of the ‘Percentage Plan’ 1978: The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke stipulates that race cannot be the sole arbiter in admissions decisions, but allows race to be one among many factors considered for the purpose of promoting diversity in […]

February 26, 2003

Taking Sides

Taking SidesLegal scholars may be divided on the possible outcome of the University of Michigan’s affirmative action cases, but they all agree it will be historicBy Erik LordsAs lawyers on both sides make their final preparations for the approaching April 1 deadline to present oral arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court in the University of […]

February 26, 2003

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