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Better Education for Better Opportunities — A Shared Responsibility

Better Education for Better Opportunities — A Shared ResponsibilityAround 350 B.C. Aristotle, tutor to Alexander the Great, offered this correlation between education and the future: “All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind are convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” America’s academic community stands to make a tremendous […]

September 25, 2002

University of South Florida Seeks to Dismiss Bias Suits

University of South Florida Seeks to Dismiss Bias SuitsTAMPA, Fla.T he University of South Florida filed joint motions last month to dismiss all 12 lawsuits stemming from alleged racial discrimination on the women’s basketball team. The motions were filed on behalf of all plaintiffs and defendants, except Jerry Ann Winters, who was fired as the […]

September 25, 2002

Bush Administration Panel to Review Title IX Policy

Bush Administration Panel to Review Title IX PolicyA Bush administration panel reviewing all aspects of Title IX policy is planning a series of public hearings nationwide this fall and winter.Cynthia Cooper, former WNBA basketball star and coach, is co-chairing the Secretary’s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, which is to review all facets of Title IX, […]

September 11, 2002

Survey Examines Careers of Black Harvard Law Grads

Survey Examines Careers of Black Harvard Law GradsCAMBRIDGE, Mass.A new survey demonstrates that Black Harvard Law alumni have achieved impressive professional success despite the fact that discrimination based both on race and gender remains an obstacle in today’s workplace. The research, conducted by the Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession, also indicates that Black […]

August 28, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Fired Athletic Director, Connecticut College Reach Settlement

Fired Athletic Director, Connecticut College Reach SettlementNEW LONDON, Conn.Connecticut College has reached a settlement with a former athletic director who had accused college administrators of racial discrimination. In March, the college decided not to reappoint Kenneth McBryde, 49, who was hired as athletic director and an adjunct professor in 1997.McBryde, who is Black, claimed in […]

July 17, 2002

Federal Court Upholds UW Law School’s Use of Race

Federal Court Upholds UW Law School’s Use of RaceSEATTLEA federal judge has ruled that the University of Washington Law School didn’t illegally discriminate against three White applicants when it denied them admission in the mid-1990s. As a result, Katuria Smith, Angela Rock and Michael Pyle — who became poster children for the campaign to pass […]

July 3, 2002

Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial Data

Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial DataProposal is proving divisive among academics, and even past Connerly supportersBy Pamela BurdmanWard Connerly, the regent who brought the affirmative action ban to the University of California, now is taking his campaign for race-blindness a step farther with a controversial new proposal that already is infuriating academics. After […]

June 19, 2002

Leadership & Policy

UAB President Claims She Was Forced Out Because of Gender, Age

UAB President Claims She Was Forced Out Because of Gender, AgeBIRMINGHAM, Ala.Dr. Ann Reynolds claims in a federal discrimination complaint that she was forced out of the University of Alabama in Birmingham presidency because of her gender and age. She also claims she never received a serious retirement offer. A board of trustees spokeswoman has […]

May 8, 2002

University of South Alabama Officials Dispute EEOC Ruling

University of South Alabama Officials Dispute EEOC RulingMOBILE, Ala.University of South Alabama officials are disputing a finding that the school discriminated against a group of workers and were expected to reject an offer to settle the case. The school, facing a deadline, was to respond late last month to an earlier report from the U.S. […]

April 24, 2002

Report: Women Throughout MIT Face Discrimination

Report: Women Throughout MIT Face DiscriminationCambridge, Mass.Women faculty throughout the Massachusetts Institute of Technology long have faced bias and inequality, according to a report released last month on gender equity at the school. Although the university has made progress in correcting longstanding discrimination, work is still needed, such as correcting the near-complete absence of minority […]

April 10, 2002

African-American

Did Black Folks Gain From the Women’s Movement?

Did Black Folks Gain From the Women’s Movement?I have always been intrigued by the career of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The Stanford Law School graduate’s legal career was clearly affected by sex discrimination, yet O’Connor has tended to take mixed positions in cases of race discrimination. Her opinion in the Croson case was, […]

March 27, 2002

Office of Civil Rights Nominee Faces Scrutiny

Office of Civil Rights Nominee Faces ScrutinyA Senate panel questioned a major Bush administration civil rights nominee in late February amid signs that leading civil rights groups oppose the nomination.Gerald Reynolds is the White House choice to fill the vacant slot of assistant education secretary responsible for the department’s Office for Civil Rights. Reynolds, an […]

March 27, 2002

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