Diverse StaffLeadership & PolicyHampton Considers Legal Action Over Wrongful ArrestHAMPTON, Va. Hampton University officials have hired renowned attorney Johnnie Cochran and two Texas lawyers to consider taking legal action against the city of Lubbock, Texas, for the wrongful arrest and detainment of the Hampton women’s basketball coach, her husband, and an assistant coach.July 14, 2007African-AmericanUTC Surpasses Undergraduate Desegregation TargetCHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The Univer-sity of Tennessee-Chattanooga is the only school in the UT system to meet its court-ordered desegregation goal this fall, university administrators say.July 14, 2007STEMRuling Ends Affirmative Action at Boston High SchoolBOSTON A three-judge panel here struck down the affirmative action policies of Boston Latin School, the city’s most prestigious public high school, according to a story in The New York Times. It is the first such appeals court decision in the nation directed at the K-12 system of education.July 14, 2007STEMRegents Come Up with Compromise for FAMU DesignationTALLAHASSEE, FLA. State university system officials agreed last month to a special designation for Florida A&M University aimed at resolving a racially tinged controversy over dividing the state’s 10 public universities into three classifications.July 14, 2007HealthProfessional AppointmentsCROSS TO LEAD MORRIS BROWJuly 14, 2007HealthBlack Enrollment in Dental Schools Continues to DropWASHINGTON African American enrollment in dental schools declined for the third consecutive year, according to data recently released by the American Association of Dental Schools (AADS) and the American Dental Association.July 14, 2007HomeNew Conspiracy Theory Concerning DisenfranchisementDear Editor: As an avid reader of the magazine, I read the article in the October 29, 1998 issue — titled, “The Tuskegee Experiment’s Long Shadow” — and find that I am also a victim of the conspiracy theories concerning African Americans: I had heard the rumor about the fifth digit in a person’s social security number indicating whether you are African American or not and I sort of believed it.July 14, 2007African-AmericanWhat’s NewLast month, the University of Maryland-College Park announced the establishment of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora. The center will offer the opportunity to study Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives — particularly the arts, languages, literature, and history.July 14, 2007STEMNext Stop for Anti-Affirmative Action Group, MassachusettsBOSTON The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Equal Opportunity has asked Massachusetts’s public colleges and universities to supply detailed information about their admission policies. The center was instrumental in advancing Proposition 209 in California, and Initiative 200 in Washington. It also represented the plaintiffs in the Hopwood case in Texas. Headed by Linda Chavez, the director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under President Reagan, the center is a vocal affirmative-action critic. It has studied seven university systems since 1996 — including state schools in California, Washington, Colorado, North Carolina, and Michigan, as well as the U.S. service academies at West Point and Annapolis. In virtually all of the cases, the center claimed that the institutions — particularly the flagship campuses — gave admissions preference to minority applicants.July 14, 2007Faculty & StaffBluefield State Told to Reinstate Fired ProfessorBLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The West Virginia Education and State Employees Grievance Board last month ordered historically Black Bluefield State College to reinstate Garrett Olmsted as a tenured professor. Olmsted was fired after protesting the firing of the last Black faculty member and the fact that African American student enrollment had dropped under 8 percent. (See Black Issues, June 11)July 14, 2007Previous PagePage 101 of 115Next Page
