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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

African-American

Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Goverment. – book reviews

Separate & Unequal: Black Americans and the U.S. Federal Government, Desmond King, Oxford University Press, 1995. $35.00 (hardcover)

June 16, 2007

Racism’s Hidden Threat

Discrimination is hurtful and nasty, but researchers are now discovering that it can lead to drug abuse as well.

May 16, 2007

Racism’s Hidden Threat

Discrimination is hurtful and nasty, but researchers are now discovering that it can lead to drug abuse as well.

May 16, 2007

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

Is An Apology Enough?

The state legislatures in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina have offered apologies for slavery. Last week, the University of Virginia’s board marked founder Thomas Jefferson’s 264th birthday — April 13 — with an apology resolution for the school’s use of slave labor between 1819 and 1865. But scholars are asking, so now what?

May 1, 2007

NCAA and Gay Rights Group Take On Homophobia In College Sports

The National Center for Lesbian Rights recently announced a settlement in the discrimination lawsuit filed by Jennifer Harris, a former Pennsylvania State University women’s basketball player who sued the school over alleged mistreatment by former coach Rene Portland, who allegedly thought Harris was a lesbian.

April 4, 2007

Texas Teen’s Imprisonment For Shoving School Aide Highlights Racial Tensions

DALLAS A teenager has been jailed for more than a year for shoving a teacher’s aide at her high school, a case that has sparked anger and heightened racial tensions in rural East Texas.

March 28, 2007

Faculty & Staff

MIT’s Black Hole

For at least 25 years, faculty diversity has been a recurrent, vexing issue at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

March 21, 2007

Degree Discrimination?

India’s three-year undergraduate degrees seem to provide a solid academic foundation – but there is no consensus among U.S. graduate schools as to whether these degrees are any more or less acceptable than Europe’s “Bologna process” degrees, which are also completed in three years.

March 14, 2007

University Drops Sorority Accused of Image Discrimination

GREENCASTLE, Ind. — DePauw University announced Monday it has severed ties with the Delta Zeta sorority, where a mass eviction of members left people questioning whether looks and appearance were valued more than academics and other contributions.

March 11, 2007

Degree Discrimination?

Last fall, the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., hosted a workshop on the Bologna undergraduate degrees in Europe…

March 7, 2007

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