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Reducing Black-White Test Score Gap Begins With Early Verbal Interaction at Home

Reducing Black-White Test Score Gap Begins With Early Verbal Interaction at HomeUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. In 2003 the Supreme Court ruled in support of affirmative action in college admissions, but their ruling suggested that affirmative action should become unnecessary in the next 25 years. However, a large test score gap between Black and White students indicates […]

June 16, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Bennett President Receives Human Rights Award

Bennett President Receives Human Rights AwardGREENSBORO, N.C. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) presented Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole with its Joseph Prize for Human Rights during their National Executive Committee Meeting last month. The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 to combat anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry. The ADL established the Joseph Prize for Human Rights […]

March 10, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Racism, Sexism Persist on U.S. College Campuses, Study Finds

Racism, Sexism Persist on U.S. College Campuses, Study FindsCOLUMBIA, Mo.A new study shows large numbers of female and minority faculty experience a particularly challenging and sometimes hostile campus climate, even as universities across the United States seek to create an academic environment free of such hindrances as racism and sexism. “We found that the lack […]

December 17, 2003

New Affirmative Action Issues Expose Split U.S. Supreme Court

New Affirmative Action Issues Expose Split U.S. Supreme CourtWASHINGTONFresh off the divisive University of Michigan cases involving affirmative action in college admissions, a divided U.S. Supreme Court refused last month to consider the constitutionality of a Denver law that gives minority- and female-owned contractors a better chance at winning some contracts. The city had been […]

December 3, 2003

Dismantling the Myth Of a Color-Blind Society

Dismantling the Myth Of a Color-Blind SocietyAfter more than 30 years of work on the psychology of racism and antiracism, I continue to be mystified by how difficult it is for many to see the falsehoods of the color-blind society. In 1997, for example, I participated in a congressional briefing and testified before President Clinton’s […]

November 5, 2003

Community Colleges

Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination Lawsuits

Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination LawsuitsSALT LAKE CITYSalt Lake Community College is facing a federal lawsuit from several employees who claim the school has discriminated against them. The suits claim the college has created a hostile work environment for minorities and that White employees enjoy preferential treatment. An SLCC spokesman, Joy Tlou, said the […]

October 8, 2003

Racial Privacy Initiative: A Threat to Civil Rights

Racial Privacy Initiative: A Threat to Civil RightsBy Dr. Jamillah MooreIt is saddening to read that California will take the lead in proposing yet another divisive initiative for the ballot. The Golden State has led the way on controversial issues of vouchers, immigration and affirmative action. Now the American Civil Rights Institute, founded by Ward […]

September 10, 2003

Coaching Groups to Keep Up Fight Over Title IX

Coaching Groups to Keep Up Fight Over Title IX WASHINGTONA coalition of college coaching associations, aiming to change the way a major sports anti-discrimination law is enforced, will press its legal fight on two fronts. The College Sports Council announced plans last month to sue the U.S. Department of Education over its July decision to […]

September 10, 2003

Leadership & Policy

The Price of Education

The Price of EducationBy Julianne Malveaux I can’t explain my eclectic reading habits, or my innate curiosity about all kinds of things. The combination of the two explains, perhaps, why I snatched Andrew Ward’s book about the Fisk Jubilee Singers off a sale table at a small bookstore, and devoured it on a cross-country flight […]

August 27, 2003

Young College Athletes See ‘Raceless’ World, Study Says

Young College Athletes See ‘Raceless’ World, Study SaysNASHVILLE, Tenn. A new study showing similar levels of agreement among White and Black college athletes that racial and ethnic discrimination is no longer a problem bucks more than 70 years of social science trends relating to racial perceptions of discrimination. The report, “There’s No Race on the Playing […]

August 13, 2003

What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name?Study shows that workplace discrimination begins long before the job seeker shows up for an interviewBy Kendra Hamilton Thinking of naming your child Keisha or Aisha? How about Rasheed or Tremayne? African American parents across the nation may have to think again, as a recent study has shown that workplace discrimination begins […]

June 18, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Labor of Love

Labor of LoveLaw professors’ study provides new weapons in fighting job discriminationBy Ben HammerRuth and Alfred “Al” Blumrosen have worked for almost 50 years to improve labor conditions in this country and around the world. And despite recently buying a beach house in Naples, Fla., the couple, law professors at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., […]

June 4, 2003

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