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We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history
A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.
June 17, 2007
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We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history
A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.
June 17, 2007
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Fighting back: affirmative action professionals on the front line – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
WASHINGTON If the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in the matter of Hopwood vs. Texas is a body blow for affirmative action, minority advocates in higher education are trying hard not to show it.
June 17, 2007
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Hysterical sloganeering has replaced rational debate on affirmative action
More than any other issue of public policy, the national debate over affirmative action has been characterized by confusion and even deliberate distortion. One of the saddest consequences of this has been a challenge to the historic coalition between the Jewish and African-American communities.
June 17, 2007
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Studies refute perceptions of open admissions and educational attainment – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
Ultimately, the question of affirmative action will not be decided in the Supreme Court but by the public, which has been barraged by arguments that no matter what can be said about fairness and justice, affirmative action — and even desegregation — “just doesn’t work.”
June 17, 2007
Students
One, two, three…red light – conservative backlash derails progress in equal opportunity
The game, “One, Two, Three … Red Light,” played by elementary school children is an excellent metaphor for the state of Black progress in higher education.
June 17, 2007
Community Colleges
New community college affirmative action policies announced; California keeps some elements of old hiring programs – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
California Community Colleges officials have changed the system’s affirmative action hiring policies to make sure that they don’t include any “illegal preferences” for minorities.
June 17, 2007
Students
Women of the Harlem Renaissance. – book reviews
Women of the Harlem Renaissance, by Cheryl A. Wall, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, is a welcome addition to the scholarship on women of this period. Excellently researched, this book focuses on the lives of three women writers — Jessie Redmon Faucet, Nella Larson, and Zora Neale Hurston. Together, they epitomized the voice, tone, style and vision of Black women writers in New York City during the 1920s and early ’30s — the period of the Harlem Renaissance.
June 17, 2007
African-American
Five-year trends in minority degree production – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
For the past five years, I have prepared listings of the colleges and universities across the United States that confer the most degrees to students of color for Black Issues In Higher Education.
June 17, 2007
African-American
To do list – steps affirmative action proponents can take – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
Affirmative action has helped ensure access to higher education for students and faculty who might not have had that chance otherwise. Now that affirmative action programs are battling for their very existence, the editors and writers of Black Issues In Higher Education present the following pointers and reminders that have been gleaned from interviews, research and discussions in preparation for this special report.
June 17, 2007
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Affirmative action: forging a constitutionally acceptable solution – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
Fundamental to any discussion of affirmative action’s legality is its definition. Affirmative action does not mean numerical quotas, the selection of someone solely on the basis of race or gender, or the selection of the unqualified over the qualified.
June 17, 2007
Students
‘Savings’ on California initiative challenged – California Civil Rights Initiative – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
Proponents of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) tout it as a measure that will bring about substantial savings to state-house coffers by abolishing so-called state-sponsored discrimination in the form of affirmative action programs.
June 17, 2007
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Students
UCLA ‘greater’ because of affirmative action – University of California, Los Angeles
In the past year, no issue has so touched the University of California as affirmative action and the controversy it has generated.
June 17, 2007
Leadership & Policy
ACE & affirmative action: a chat with Robert Atwell and Reginald Wilson – former president and senior scholar with the American Council on Education – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
As the umbrella organization for higher education, the American Council on Education is often at the center of the major issues facing colleges and universities, Dr. Robert Atwell, who has announced his retirement as president, and Dr. Reginald Wilson, senior scholar with ACE, have been two of the leading proponents in the country for affirmative action.
June 17, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Moonlighting becomes them: college faculty become entrepreneurs, high-priced consultants off-campus – African Americans
This year, Dr. Iris Mack realized her proudest moments when Associated Technologists, Inc. (ATI) earned Small Business Administration Certification within three weeks and was chosen for NASA’s quarterly hightech business forum.
June 17, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Black literature in the ’90s
In 1948, Zora Neale Hurston published an article in the Negro Digest titled “What White Publishers Won’t Print.” Today, the issue turns not on what white publishers won’t print, but rather, what they will print when it comes to African-American literature.
June 17, 2007
Students
Identity bank: research institute launched by College Fund/UNCF has a big job ahead of it – United Negro College Fund
Former Congressman William H. Gray III has to look no further than his battles on the floor of the U.S., House of Representatives over race-specific scholarships in justifying how key the College Fund/United Negro College Fund’s newly created Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute can be to Black America.
June 17, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Rescue for the endangered – role for Historically Black Colleges and Universities in developing African American leadership
Historically Black colleges and universities should play a major role in reversing the stagnant African American pattern of existence that is characterized by hopelessness and powerlessness, according to a new study of African-American males.
June 17, 2007
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