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Pennsylvania State Colleges Drop Automatic Admissions Proposal

Pennsylvania State Colleges Drop Automatic Admissions ProposalHARRISBURG, Pa. State-owned universities have dropped a proposal to offer automatic admissions to top Pennsylvania students following federal opposition to similar plans in other states. The State System of Higher Education has been studying since last spring the idea of giving automatic admissions at the 14 state institutions to […]

December 20, 2000

Lawyer Files New Brief on UGA Admissions Policy

Lawyer Files New Brief on UGA Admissions PolicyATHENS, Ga. Lawyers who oppose the University of Georgia’s use of race in its admissions process filed another brief late last month at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Attorney Lee Parks accused the university of “state-sponsored discrimination.” The brief includes a complaint against the […]

December 20, 2000

Minority Students May Be Star Witnesses in U-Michigan Affirmative Action Lawsuit

Minority Students May Be Star Witnesses in U-Michigan Affirmative Action LawsuitLandmark case could turn on their campus experiencesBy Erik LordsDETROITThe 17 Black and Hispanic students who last year won the right to intervene in an affirmative action lawsuit against the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor soon could be star witnesses in the controversial case, […]

December 6, 2000

U.S. Lawyers Ask Judges to Overturn Decision on UGA Admissions

U.S. Lawyers Ask Judges to Overturn Decision on UGA AdmissionsATLANTAIn a strongly worded appeal, lawyers for the federal government have urged an appeals court to overturn a decision against the University of Georgia’s use of race in its admissions. Officials at the U.S. Department of Justice say U.S. District Judge B. Avant Edenfield was wrong […]

November 22, 2000

Corporations Lend Support to U-Michigan’s Diversity Efforts

Corporations Lend Support to U-Michigan’s Diversity EffortsBy Hilary HurdANN ARBOR, Mich.Twenty of America’s largest and best-known corporations filed a legal brief here last month strongly supporting the University of Michigan in the lawsuit challenging its admissions policies. The brief argues that diversity in higher education plays a critical role in preparing students to be leaders […]

November 8, 2000

Pennsylvania Officials Consider State Test For Automatic College Admission

Pennsylvania Officials Consider State Test For Automatic College AdmissionHARRISBURG, Pa. The majority of Pennsylvania’s high school students who score well on the state’s basic-skills test would be guaranteed admission into state colleges under a plan being considered here.The new concept is included in the State System of Higher Education’s strategic planning initiative.The proposal will go […]

November 8, 2000

Texas’ Ten Percent Plan Has Boosted Minority Enrollment

Texas’ Ten Percent Plan Has Boosted Minority EnrollmentBy Hilary HurdWASHINGTONNew freshman enrollment data recently presented by a University of Texas official in Washington showed that minority representation has increased as a result of the state’s implementation of the Ten Percent Plan. The plan guarantees admission to University of Texas institutions for all Texas high school […]

October 25, 2000

Center for Equal Opportunity Now Targets State of Maryland

Center for Equal Opportunity Now Targets State of MarylandBy Linda Meggett Brown and the Associated PressBALTIMOREA dmissions practices at Maryland’s public schools and colleges are the latest targets of the Center for Equal Opportunity, which has released a study indicating that Black students are getting in with lower SAT scores than those of White students.The […]

October 25, 2000

Attorney General Reno Promotes Law School Diversity at Conference

Attorney General Reno Promotes Law School Diversity at ConferenceDENVER Law schools should be allowed to take race into account when making admissions decisions in order to help bring diversity to the ranks of law school graduates and the legal system, Attorney General Janet Reno said earlier this month. “Without considering race in higher education admissions, […]

October 25, 2000

Board Election May Sway Future of Michigan Affirmative Action Lawsuit

Board Election May Sway Future of Michigan Affirmative Action LawsuitANN ARBOR, Mich. The issue of whether the University of Michigan will keep in place its affirmative action admissions policy may become a partisan one. Candidates for two seats on the university’s Board of Regents are offering different opinions as to what should happen with lawsuits […]

October 25, 2000

Disseminating the Truth About Affirmative Action

Disseminating the Truth About Affirmative ActionA recent preliminary study conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln showed disturbing trends in the perceptions of prospective graduate students toward affirmative action and minority students. This investigation entailed in-depth interviews with self-identified Caucasian female undergraduates applying to graduate programs in psychology and psychology-related fields. Respondents attributed a variety of […]

September 13, 2000

Affirmative Action’s Lost Luster

Affirmative Action’s Lost LusterWhat’s different about affirmative action this year? Despite some major decisions recently made and some others that are coming up, the issue hasn’t been high on the political radar screen. The last decade saw affirmative action policies in higher education undergo serious retrenchment and heavy political attack from opponents. In 1996, conservative political […]

September 13, 2000

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