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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 […]

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Morris Brown Trustees Appoint Chemistry Professor as Acting President

Morris Brown Trustees Appoint Chemistry Professor as Acting PresidentDr. Charles E. Taylor resigns following lost accreditation bid ATLANTALosing a bid to win back its accreditation, historically Black Morris Brown College is also losing its president. Dr. Charles E. Taylor, resigned a week after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools released a letter denying the […]

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Virginia Tech Reverses Decision on Affirmative Action

Virginia Tech Reverses Decision on Affirmative Action BLACKSBURG, Va. A month after the Black alumni of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, as well as others, expressed disapproval of the university’s board of visitors’ decision to bar the consideration of race and gender in campus admissions, hiring and financial aid processes, the board restored its […]

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Morris Brown to Begin Process of Re-Accreditation

Morris Brown to Begin Process of Re-Accreditation ATLANTAMorris Brown College will begin the process of re-accreditation following the ruling of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) which denied its appeal for membership. “We are clearly disappointed by the ruling,” said Sixth District African Methodist Episcopal Bishop Frank C. Cummings, chairman of the Morris […]

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Education Department Highlights ‘Race-Neutral’ Admissions Initiatives

Education Department Highlights ‘Race-Neutral’ Admissions InitiativesAmericans should not look to achieve diversity through affirmative action, secretary saysBy Charles Dervarics Americans should not look to achieve diversity through affirmative action and other “shortcuts that divide us by race,” says U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige as he mounts a new Bush administration campaign to showcase ‘race-neutral’ approaches […]

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Winning at Any Cost

Winning at Any CostBy Julianne Malveaux Under ordinary circumstances, I wouldn’t know a Tony Cole from a hole in the wall, or a Jim Harrick, either Junior or Senior, from a lamppost. Regular readers know me as a sports skeptic, not a sports fan. But I happened to be flying through Atlanta after Cole, a […]

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Clark Atlanta, Spelman Inaugurate New Presidents

Clark Atlanta, Spelman Inaugurate New Presidents ATLANTAClark Atlanta University and Spelman College held inauguration ceremonies for their new presidents last month. Dr. Walter D. Broadnax, who assumed leadership of Clark Atlanta University last August, was sworn into office on March 21 at that campus’ Symphony Hall. The celebration punctuated that campus’ annual Founders Week observance. […]

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Coalition Challenges Virginia Tech Ban on Affirmative Action

Coalition Challenges Virginia Tech Ban on Affirmative ActionBLACKSBURG, Va. Black alumni of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) were joined by Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and others last month in expressing disapproval of the university’s board of visitors decision to bar the consideration of race and gender in the campus admissions, hiring and […]

UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime

UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.The mood for University of Virginia students returning from Spring Break is likely to be somber as they attempt to grapple with the fallout from the latest of a string of divisive racial incidents: an assault on a minority student running for student council that left her […]

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Lincoln University May Fight for Control of Valuable Art, Judge Says

Lincoln University May Fight for Control of Valuable Art, Judge Says PHILADELPHIAA judge ruled last month that Lincoln University, a historically Black college outside Philadelphia, may fight a court petition that would dilute its control over a valuable, world-renowned collection of art. Lincoln opposes a petition by The Barnes Foundation that would eliminate Lincoln’s long-standing […]

Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities

Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities COLUMBIA, Mo.The University of Missouri at Columbia is sticking by its Transitions program for incoming minority students, even as other schools change or eliminate their programs in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case.“The Transitions program is specially designed to increase […]

Entertainer Steve Harvey Establishes Textbook Award Program

Entertainer Steve Harvey Establishes Textbook Award Program BATON ROUGE, La.Entertainer Steve Harvey and his wife, Mary, have contributed $40,000 to establish a book award program at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, La. The Harveys also have pledged to donate at least $20,000 annually to support their book award program at the university. […]

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