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Dear BI Career  Consultants: What are the critical factors in determining whether litigation is my only option in a promotion dispute, and if I do sue my institution, is that tantamount to career suicide?Jonathan R. Alger,Counsel,  American Association of University Professors,Washington, D.C.We live in a litigious society in which the media portray courts as the forum […]

February 16, 2000

Sports

An Unappealing Decision

An Unappealing DecisionExperts view U.S. Circuit Court panel’s reversal of Cureton v. NCAA  as maintaining a ‘discriminatory status quo’ in collegiate sportsBy Eric St. JohnWASHINGTON — The NCAA “is free to discriminate.”  That is how some experts are interpreting the decision of a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled […]

February 2, 2000

Students

A Tough Decision for Yale’s Jewish Students

A Tough Decision for Yale’s Jewish StudentsIn 1920, newly-minted Yale graduate Morris Sweetkind, enticed by the life of the mind, resolved to stay in New Haven while his classmates left to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Rather than cash in on his prestigious degree, Sweetkind applied to pursue graduate work in Yale’s English department. While other […]

February 2, 2000

Community Colleges

BI News Briefs

Judge Allows Students to Help Defend Georgia’s Admissions PolicyATHENS, Ga. — Several students concerned about the state’s efforts to defend the University of Georgia against a high-profile lawsuit alleging discrimination in the school’s admissions policy have added themselves as defendants in the case.Ken Dious, an attorney here who represents the students, some of whom are […]

January 19, 2000

HBCUs

Reparations and Higher Education

Reparations and Higher EducationThere is a continuing argument about the role of affirmative action, in various forms, in admissions and faculty recruitment at historically White universities, and in budget support for historically Black colleges and universities. But the debate does not get us much closer to consensus on a practical guiding principle for making decisions […]

January 5, 2000

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Déjà Vu in the Bayou

Déjà Vu in the Bayou Demotion of Black administrators and promotion of White administrators results in allegations of racism.BATON ROUGE, La. — Allegations of racism are once again surfacing at Baton Rouge Community College, but this time they are directed at a White chancellor instead of an African American one.Interim Chancellor Dr. Sammie Cosper, a […]

January 5, 2000

Faculty & Staff

BI News Briefs

Hampton Coach’s Civil Rights Lawsuit Thrown OutLUBBOCK, Texas — A judge has dismissed a college basketball coach’s civil rights lawsuit, ruling she, her husband and an assistant failed to establish that racial bias was a factor in their 1998 arrests. Hampton University women’s coach Patricia Bibbs and the others sued the city, several police officers […]

January 5, 2000

African-American

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Miss. HBCU Has New Competition for Students, Funds JACKSON, Miss. — In a ruling praised by education partisans on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a federal judge will allow a four-year college program to begin accepting students as early as next summer, if funding allows. Eight months after blocking college expansion plans on the Gulf Coast, […]

December 22, 1999

Students

Fighting for Scholarships in Oklahoma

Fighting for Scholarships in OklahomaFearing that the federal district court in Oklahoma City might shut down a state-financed merit scholarship program targeted by a discrimination lawsuit, Oklahoma State Rep. Opio Toure (D-Oklahoma City) and other Black Democratic legislators got a bill passed last spring to make the program race and gender neutral. Toure’s and his […]

November 10, 1999

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Texas Test Patterns

Texas Test PatternsWhile Lawsuit Says High School Exit Exam Discriminates, Report Shows Achievement Gap Is Closing in Two School DistrictsAUSTIN, Texas  — The outcome of a lawsuit over an exit-level high school examination in Texas could have ramifications for other states that require students to pass a statewide test to receive a diploma. The lawsuit filed […]

October 27, 1999

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Same Team, Different Strategy

Same Team, Different StrategyThe Lawsuit Challenging Michigan’s Affirmative Action Policies has Produced a Wide Spectrum of Supporters Who are Prepared to Defend the University’s Pursuit of DiversityANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan prides itself on its commitment to maintaining a racially diverse campus. Indeed, here at the nation’s 10th-largest university, nearly one in […]

October 13, 1999

Students

BI News Briefs

Commission Dismisses Discrimination Complaint Against Alabama-BirminghamBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The state Ethics Commission has dismissed complaints against the president of the University of Alabama-Birmingham and another school official, saying the allegations of discrimination do not fall under its jurisdiction.A local activist had filed a complaint against Dr. W. Ann Reynolds, the school’s president, and George Perdue, […]

October 13, 1999