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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.”

Charting journalism degrees

The data for this study come from the United Stated Department of Education. It is collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program completers survey conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The survey requests data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred in academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs. Institutions report their data according to the Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). CIP codes provide a common set of categories allowing comparisons across all colleges and universities.

Leadership & Policy

Audit Clears UT-Pan Am President of Using Public Funds to Improve Residence

AUSTIN Texas The president of University of Texas-Pan American did not know she was breaking rules when more than $7,000 of public money went to improve her private residence and pay for her daily commute, according to a report released Wednesday by the University of Texas System Audit Office.

Fundraising scandal at Bowie State – Bowie State University, Bowie, Md

Bowie, Md. A financially troubled fund-raising organization for Bowie State University (BSU) is being temporarily handed over to the University of Maryland system amidst criticism that the organization sapped its administrative funds and then dipped into other money earmarked for scholarships and campus activities to cover further operating costs.

Graduating in prosperous times

When Ed Wrenn pursued a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems at Florida A&M University, the young Boston-area native kept an unwavering watch on the job market. During his time at FAMU, Wrenn estimates that he had contact with nearly one hundred potential employers about jobs after college. By fall 1997, his last semester at FAMU. Wrenn had five job offers to consider.

The new faces of college

Last year marked York College’s thirtieth anniversary. This spring, the college, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, passed yet another milestone. For the first time, it graduated more than 1,000 students, about 75 percent of whom were people of color.

Leadership & Policy

Black ivy mysteries – mystery books about black scholars in white institutions

WASHINGTON, D.C. It’s not uncommon for fiction writers to create heroes and heroines whose personalities and life circumstances stem from the writer’s own experiences. So it should come as no surprise that when Pamela Thomas-Graham decided to write a mystery novel, she created an African American heroine who teaches at the same university where she spent her undergraduate and graduate years.

Public housing smarts: two universities discover a trove of opportunity in New Orleans’s public housing system – Cover Story

New Orleans At night, from the third floor landing of her three-bedroom apartment, Keywanda Wiggins has a view of the glittering New Orleans skyline. Visible from her window are the bulbous Superdome, most of the city’s modern high-rises, and a slice of the Mississippi River.

Leadership & Policy

Chicago board fires outspoken Temple – Black academic Ronald J. Temple

Chicago Dr. Ronald J. Temple, buoyed by the support of a group of African American ministers, recently waded into the murky, shark-infested waters of Chicago politics. But the chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago system discovered his feisty rhetoric was no match for the vicious bite he received on March 5, when he was fired outright by the board of trustees.

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