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Excerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on Campus
Excerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on CampusThe Meaning of DiversityThe academy does not agree on what diversity means or how it should be achieved. To be more precise, over the past four decades, the term has taken on a number of different, competing, even conflicting meanings, often on the same campuses. Several years […]
August 30, 2000
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The Art of Diversity
The Art of Diversity Dr. Arthur E. Levine is in a pretty enviable position. As president of Columbia University’s Teachers College, he sits at the helm of a Harlem, N.Y.-based institution steeped in its legacy of inclusion. Back in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, Southern states burdened with the shackles of segregation readily paid for […]
August 30, 2000
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GEAR UP Facing Criticism
GEAR UP Facing CriticismCongressional sponsors of the 2-year-old Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs have beaten back attempts to terminate the initiative, but prospects for future funding growth may be dimming.House and Senate negotiators in late July rejected White House recommendations to increase funding for the program from $200 million to $325 million. […]
August 30, 2000
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Campus Cops Try To Fill Role As Cyber Superheroes
Campus Cops Try To Fill Role As Cyber SuperheroesMinority students here at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry received a series of threatening e-mail messages last March warning them to “be afraid, not only for their future careers but for their lives.“If firearms need to be used. Then they will,” said the message, which […]
August 16, 2000
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James Farmer Rests in Peace, But Mary Washington College Still Wrestles with Multicultural Issues
James Farmer Rests in Peace, But Mary Washington College Still Wrestles with Multicultural IssuesA plan at Mary Washington College to relocate the school’s James Farmer Multicultural Center and divert resources to “cultural” programming has provoked angry protests from faculty and others.Faculty at the liberal arts college say the changes belie the administration’s stated commitment to […]
August 16, 2000
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Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting Diversity
Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting DiversityA federal district judge ruled late last month that three White female applicants denied admission to the University of Georgia in 1999 should be offered admission to the institution this fall, effectively ending the university’s policy of giving special consideration to minority applicants.In his […]
August 16, 2000
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Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community College
Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community CollegeA Portland Community College student here has filed a reverse-discrimination complaint alleging she is being denied free tuition because she is White. Adrienne Williams, 29, claims a teacher development program violates the college’s nondiscrimination policies because it is open only to minorities. She sent her complaint to the […]
August 16, 2000
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Journalism Professor Sues Florida A&M In Tenure Dispute
Journalism Professor Sues Florida A&M In Tenure DisputeTALLAHASSEE, Fla. A White female journalism professor at Florida A&M University has sued the school in a tenure dispute, claiming “Black men are favored” in promotion to top faculty jobs. Gloria Horning’s civil rights suit alleges she was hired on a tenure track in 1993 and was not […]
August 16, 2000
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Where There is None
Where There is Nonettracting minority students into engineering programs is a challenge. A rural Midwestern school such as the University of Missouri-Rolla has double the difficulty, because it is a challenge to attract minority students, period.  At least, that was the issue 10 years ago, when it occurred to university officials that there might be […]
August 16, 2000
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Natural Allies
Natural AlliesBlack colleges and two-year schools try to come together to create a network of seamless education for minority students Several years ago, officials at San Francisco City College here began the African American Achievement Program, aimed at encouraging more of the school’s Black students to transfer to four-year schools.It started out pretty small. But […]
August 16, 2000
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Roaring up from Behind
Roaring up from BehindWhile a report from the Southern Regional Education Board acknowledges falling short of remedial education goals, one college offers an example of developmental successLARGO, Md. — They don’t like calling the students “at risk.” “Underprepared” is a more accurate phrase. They also don’t like to use the term “remedial education.” “Educational development” […]
August 2, 2000
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Ambitious Outreach
Ambitious OutreachLONG BEACH, Calif. — A veteran university administrator, Dr. Charles B. Reed has seen his fair share of controversy during a career that includes 13 years as chancellor of the Florida State University system. Since joining the California State University system as chancellor in 1997, Reed already has faced numerous faculty protests over labor, […]
August 2, 2000
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Remediation Reform
Remediation ReformOnly time will tell whether California’s remediation policy will continue to turn out success stories or if disadvantaged students who can’t catch up in time will mark the system’s biggest failure. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Brandon Kountz is feeling the pressure. Having completed his first year of classes at California State University-Sacramento, the Richmond, Calif., […]
August 2, 2000
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Double Standard Reform
Double Standard ReformReports abound across the country of ex-welfare mothers who can’t make ends meet. Booted out of a system they depended on for so long, many lack the skills necessary to secure gainful employment despite taking training programs the federal government mandated nearly four years ago. That was back when reforming the system was […]
August 2, 2000
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ACLU Sues Michigan Over Merit Scholarships
ACLU Sues Michigan Over Merit Scholarships DETROIT — Calling the Michigan Merit Award system an “unconscionable use of public funds,” the American Civil Liberties Union here filed a lawsuit last month asking that the state be ordered to stop using a standardized test as the sole criteria for the scholarship. The ACLU says awarding the […]
July 19, 2000
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Arkansas Administrator Keeping Title, Salary
Arkansas Administrator Keeping Title, SalaryFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A University of Arkansas administrator will retain his title and salary as he takes on new duties, though controversy about the job change has not died down. When the university moved toward making Assistant Vice Chancellor Lonnie Williams director of the school’s Multicultural Center, an Arkansas Court of […]
July 19, 2000
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Ga. Minority Scholarship Dropped Because of Lawsuits
Ga. Minority Scholarship Dropped Because of LawsuitsATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia has stopped awarding a prominent minority scholarship because of lawsuits targeting the school’s use of race in admissions policy. University officials say the Holmes-Hunter Scholarship, which gives $1,500 a year to a Black student with strong academic and leadership potential, was not […]
July 19, 2000
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GROWTH by BEAUTIFICATION
GROWTH by BEAUTIFICATIONCampus preservation is at the forefront of Cheyney University’s new rebuilding effortsCHEYNEY, Pa. —When he peers out the window of his conference room, Cheyney University President Dr. W. Clinton Pettus sees a few things he doesn’t like. First, there is the large blue water tower that looms above the center of this rustic […]
July 19, 2000
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