Tag: Discrimination: Page 82

Topping the Charts

Topping the Charts It’s that time of year again, when we recognize the colleges and universities that graduate the most students of color at the undergraduate level. In 2001, we celebrated the fact that the number of African American students receiving bachelor’s degrees topped 100,000 for the first time. It is good to see that […]

June 4, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Instructor Loses Retaliation Suit Against Washington College

Instructor Loses Retaliation Suit Against Washington CollegeTACOMA, Wash. A foreign-born math instructor has lost a suit accusing Tacoma Community College of retaliation after the board of trustees granted him tenure despite the adverse recommendation of a tenure review committee.Robert Tan failed to prove that the college had assigned him to teach primarily remedial-level courses in […]

May 21, 2003

Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action

Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action By Charles DervaricsRace-conscious college admissions hurt low-income minority students by pitting them against more affluent African American and Latino youth who could afford college anyway, U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige says. In his latest effort to push race-neutral college admissions, Paige told an Education Department conference audience that race-conscious admissions […]

May 21, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Lawmaker’s Wife, Nev. Colleges Settle Discrimination Suit

Lawmaker’s Wife, Nev. Colleges Settle Discrimination Suit LAS VEGASThe Nevada state university system has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by the wife of Assemblyman Wendell Williams. Zelda Williams will receive $49,900 from the University and Community College System of Nevada after a community college employee used a racial slur about her in 2001, her lawyer […]

May 7, 2003

Study Documents Domestic Violence by Race, Income

Study Documents Domestic Violence by Race, Income PROVIDENCE, R.I.Black and Hispanic women, especially Black women in more affluent neighborhoods, are overrepresented in police-reported domestic violence information compiled by the Rhode Island Department of Health, according to a new analysis published in the journal Public Health Reports. Four Brown University researchers found that although Black and […]

May 7, 2003

Overcoming the Black-White Achievement Gap

Overcoming the Black-White Achievement Gap Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement By John U. Ogbu Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., 2003352 pp., $69.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8058-4515-1, $32.50 paper, ISBN 0-8058-4516-XBy Ronald Roach The affirmative action debate brought on by the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of the reverse discrimination lawsuits filed […]

April 23, 2003

Ayers Plaintiffs Ask Appeals Court to Throw Out Desegregation Pact

Ayers Plaintiffs Ask Appeals Court to Throw Out Desegregation PactJACKSON, Miss.A federal appeals court has been asked to throw out the settlement of Mississippi’s college desegregation case and start the process from step one. Attorney Alvin Chambliss asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to schedule a hearing on demands from […]

March 26, 2003

Opening Doors to Homeownership

Opening Doors to HomeownershipFannie Mae Foundation relies on education, outreach to help minority, low-income families become homeowners Since the fall of 1999, Stacey Davis Stewart has presided as president and chief executive officer over the Fannie Mae Foundation based in Washington, D.C. As head of the nation’s largest foundation devoted to affordable housing and community […]

December 18, 2002

AACTE, Adam’s Mark Hotels Reach Settlement

December 4, 2002

: USF Must Reconsider Firing Of Women’s Basketball Coach

: USF Must Reconsider Firing Of Women’s Basketball Coach TAMPA, Fla.A state appeals court has ordered University of South Florida officials to reconsider the firing of a women’s basketball coach accused of racial discrimination. The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled last month that one of the two reasons on which the university based the […]

December 4, 2002

African-American

Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race

Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race By Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAcademic officials and policy-makers from the United States and the European Commission convened the first two of three planned conferences last month aimed at solving problems of racial discrimination and xenophobia in Europe and the United States. Although organizers say the conferences grew largely out of a […]

November 6, 2002

Guyana, Michigan Universities to Develop Joint Conflict Resolution Studies

Guyana, Michigan Universities to Develop Joint Conflict Resolution Studies GEORGETOWN, GuyanaThe university in this ethnically divided South American country and another university in Michigan are planning to develop research and a curriculum in political and ethnic conflict resolution, organizers said early this month.The University of Guyana and Detroit’s Wayne State University have agreed to exchange […]

October 23, 2002

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