Tag: Discrimination: Page 75

College Grads Earn More, But Racial Disparities Persist

Adults with at least a bachelor’s degree earned almost twice as much as those with just a high school diploma…

November 15, 2006

Indiana-Purdue To Hire Diversity Officer In Response To Bias Claims

INDIANAPOLIS Administrators plan to establish a new multicultural center and hire a full-time campus diversity officer at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in response to a Black student group’s claims of bias.

November 14, 2006

Race Disparities in Education, Income, and Home Ownership Persist

WASHINGTON Decades after the civil rights movement, racial disparities in income, education and home ownership persist and, by some measurements, are growing.

November 14, 2006

Mass. Gov.-Elect Deval Patrick: One on One With Diverse

Civil rights attorney Deval Patrick made history this week when he was elected the first Black governor of Massachusetts and only the second African-American to be elected governor since Reconstruction. In his acceptance speech, Gov.-elect Patrick, who formerly worked in corporate diversity, vowed to run a more inclusive government. In the midst of his successful campaign — his first run at public office — Patrick sat down with Diverse: Issues In Higher Education last fall to discuss the lessons of diversity and his plans to improve public higher education in a state known for its elite private institutions.

November 8, 2006

Black Students At Indiana-Purdue To Sue Over Alleged Inequities

INDIANAPOLIS A group of Black students at Indiana-Purdue University-Indianapolis is threatening to sue the college over alleged discrimination.

November 4, 2006

The Trouble With Diversity

Liberals say it’s important to use race as a criterion in college admissions and conservatives say that’s reverse discrimination…

November 1, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Research Round-Up: Impact of Discrimination on Health, Innovative Teaching Methods of Minority Faculty and Racial Disparities in Care For HIV Patients

Racial discrimination may be an important reason why Blacks suffer from higher rates of cardiovascular disorders, diabetes and obesity; faculty of color use more interesting ways of teaching at undergraduate institutions than their White peers; HIV-infected people who have little to no consistent outpatient medical care are overwhelmingly minorities, the poor and substance abusers.

October 31, 2006

College Grads Earn More, But Racial Disparities Persist

Adults with at least a bachelor’s degree earned almost twice as much as those with just a high school diploma, but income disparities across racial and gender lines persist, according to U.S. Census Bureau data being released today.

October 25, 2006

Federal Officials Ease Limits On Same-sex Schools

WASHINGTON The Bush administration is giving public schools wider latitude to teach boys and girls separately in what is considered the biggest change to coed classrooms in more than three decades.

October 23, 2006

A New Angle Of Attack

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that colleges and universities could use race as one…

October 18, 2006

Supreme Court Justice Scalia Says Race Has No Place In School Admissions

WASHINGTON U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday defended some of his more controversial opinions, arguing that nothing in the U.S. Constitution supports abortion rights and the use of race in school admissions.

October 16, 2006

Group Claims Berkeley School District Discriminates

BERKELEY, Calif. A lawsuit filed Wednesday against the Berkeley, Calif., Unified School District claims the district is violating Proposition 209, the state’s ban on racial preferences.

October 5, 2006

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