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Will CUNY’s New Math Standards Hurt Minority Admissions?

The chancellor of City University of New York, the nation’s largest urban public university system, has approved a new standard that may make it harder for Black and Hispanic students to gain admittance.

Leadership & Policy

Oregon University System, SEIU reach new agreement

CORVALLIS Ore. The Oregon University System and SEIU, the union that represents university classified workers, have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that includes a 3 percent salary increase retroactive to July 1.

Just the Stats: How to Increase Minority Presence in STEM Fields at Your Institution

A few weeks ago, I started to look at the programs that work to boost minority participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, specifically Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. The Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) is another successful program that focuses on helping STEM students by providing long-term institutional funding to Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, and tribal colleges and universities. The National Science Foundation provides funding for both programs.

Bogus Degree Sale Scheme Hits New York City college

NEW YORK Teachers, students and administrators tampered with a private college’s computer system to change grades and create fake degrees for money, prosecutors charged Monday. Among the fake degrees given were those for physicians’ assistants, they said.

Perspectives: Abandoning Brown and ‘[Race]ing’ Backwards on K-12 Education

The recent, well-publicized U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases make it much tougher for school districts to achieve racial diversity and eliminate racially isolated public school systems. In addressing the use of race by Seattle and Louisville school districts in student assignments, Chief Justice John Roberts declared, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

New Law Means FBI Checks for More College Students

GRAND FORKS, N.D. A new law that gives the North Dakota University System wide-ranging authority to conduct FBI criminal background checks could affect as many as 4,000 students and 800 employees in the state, officials say.

New Law Means FBI Checks for More College Students

GRAND FORKS N.D. A new law that gives the North Dakota University System wide-ranging authority to conduct FBI criminal background checks could affect as many as 4,000 students and 800 employees in the state, officials say.

African-American

UTC Surpasses Undergraduate Desegregation Target

CHATTANOOGA, 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.

Ruling Ends Affirmative Action at Boston High School

BOSTON 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.

Regents Come Up with Compromise for FAMU Designation

TALLAHASSEE, 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.

Next Stop for Anti-Affirmative Action Group, Massachusetts

BOSTON 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.

Black News Execs Question Florida University Classification Plan

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Editors and publishers of Black newspapers from across the state questioned University of Florida System Chancellor Adam Herbert about a proposal that would group Florida A&M University with the state’s three smallest campuses under the heading “Comprehensive Universities.”

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