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Businesses, Lawmakers Show Support

Businesses, Lawmakers Show Support For Affirmative Action in College AdmissionsANN ARBOR, Mich.A “stunning array” of organizations representing business, labor, public officials, higher education and the legal profession filed legal briefs in support of the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies in admissions, UM President Lee C. Bollinger announced last month.The groups — which include 32 […]

June 20, 2001

UC Enrollment of Minorities Up, But Acceptance Rate Down

UC Enrollment of Minorities Up, But Acceptance Rate DownBERKELEY, Calif. More Black and Hispanic students are expected to enroll at the University of California this fall. However, the rate at which those students accepted offers of admission is at its lowest point in years. Overall, 31,018 students have written to UC saying they plan to […]

June 20, 2001

Supreme Court Declines to Review Affirmative Action Case

Supreme Court Declines to Review Affirmative Action CaseDecision leaves education observers wondering when Court will revisit the issueBy Ronald A. TaylorWASHINGTONThe U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to let stand a federal appeals court ruling on the University of Washington law school’s now-revised admissions policy left affirmative action advocates applauding, quota opponents grumbling and both […]

June 20, 2001

Maintaining an Open Pipeline to Higher Education: Strategies that Work

Maintaining an Open Pipeline to Higher Education: Strategies that WorkAnother academic year has come and gone and this edition of Black Issues allows us to celebrate the success of students of color. While we applaud these students, we must also address the fact that in order to increase the number of African American and other […]

June 6, 2001

In Symbolic Gesture, UC Regents Repeal Ban On Affirmative Action

In Symbolic Gesture, UC Regents Repeal Ban On Affirmative ActionBy Pamela BurdmanSAN FRANCISCOIn a unanimous vote, the University of California regents have repealed their ban on affirmative action, hoping to send a welcoming message to Black and Latino students — and bid farewell to six years of protests and political infighting.Sealed in backroom agreements under […]

June 6, 2001

Jesse Jackson Urges Students to Fight University of Michigan Ruling

Jesse Jackson Urges Students to Fight University of Michigan RulingANN ARBOR, Mich.After a federal judge ordered the University of Michigan law school to stop using race in its admissions policies, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urged students at a campus rally to fight the ruling. Jackson told hundreds of students at an afternoon rally early this […]

April 25, 2001

Black, Hispanic Admissions Up in First Year of UC Program

Black, Hispanic Admissions Up in First Year of UC ProgramBut in enrollment at flagship campuses continues to decline.BERKELEY, Calif.Black and Hispanic admissions to the University of California increased in the first year of a program guaranteeing a spot for the top 4 percent of high school graduates. UC officials say they don’t yet know if […]

April 25, 2001

Challenging the Racial Diversity Argument

Challenging the Racial Diversity ArgumentThe National Association of Scholars refutes research on the educational benefits of campus diversityBy Ronald Roach WASHINGTONOn the heels of federal court rulings in the University of Michigan’s defense of race-conscious affirmative action in its undergraduate and law school admissions, the National Association of Scholars (NAS) has issued a report this […]

April 25, 2001

Regents OK Louisiana’s Minimum Admissions Requirements

Regents OK Louisiana’s Minimum Admissions Requirements BATON ROUGE, La. The first statewide plan to set minimum admissions requirements for students entering Louisiana’s four-year state colleges won final approval last month from the Board of Regents. To be accepted to a four-year college, high school graduates would have to pass the same college preparatory curriculum required […]

April 11, 2001

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy Rejected Judge rules diversity is not a compelling state interest

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy Rejected Judge rules diversity is not a compelling state interestBy Erik LordsDETROITMany national leaders expressed shock and disappointment late last month after a U.S. District Judge in Detroit ruled that the University of Michigan’s race-conscious law school admissions policy is unconstitutional. Lawyers for the University of Michigan and a group […]

April 11, 2001

University of Michigan’s Race-Conscious Admissions to be Appealed

University of Michigan’s Race-Conscious Admissions to be AppealedDETROIT A federal judge’s ruling upholding the University of Michigan’s race-based admissions policy has been appealed to a higher court. The Center for Individual Rights, a conservative legal organization based in Washington, filed the appeal late last month with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. […]

March 28, 2001

A Call to Discard the SAT

A Call to Discard the SATCollege Board says ‘don’t scapegoat SAT because of inequalities in educational systems’By Pamela BurdmanSACRAMENTO, Calif.University of California President Richard Atkinson’s recent call to jettison the SAT I would eliminate a test that has long aroused suspicions of racial bias, a move diversity advocates have been proposing for decades.This time, however, […]

March 28, 2001

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