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2. The Michigan Cases: The Repercussions.

Author

Schmidt, Peter, Selingo, Jeffrey, Hebel, Sara, and Young, Jeffrey R.

Abstract

Explores the implications of the recent Supreme Court decision concerning race-conscious college admissions policies, including the continuing debate, college's admissions reactions, implications for race-exclusive scholarships, and student activism. Includes the complete text of the court's rulings. (EV)

Published
2003

4. Behind the Fight over Race-Conscious Admissions.

Author

Schmidt, Peter

Abstract

Describes how several key advocacy groups, working together, have played key roles in bringing the issue of race in college admissions to the Supreme Court. (EV)

Published
2003

5. A Supreme Court Showdown.

Author

Schmidt, Peter and Selingo, Jeffrey

Abstract

Discusses how the Supreme Court will hear two cases involving racial preferences at the University of Michigan, with the fate of affirmative action in college admission in the balance. (EV)

Published
2002

6. What States Aren't Saying about the 'X-Percent Solution'.

Author

Selingo, Jeffrey

Abstract

Analyzes plans of some states (California, Florida, and Texas) to admit top high school graduates to public colleges and universities as a way to promote diversity without affirmative action programs. Critics claim such plans exploit educational segregation while doing nothing to improve schools, and may create inequities by denying admission to some achieving students while admitting other underprepared students. (DB)

Published
2000

7. The Special Preferences Are Not Limited to Blacks.

Author

Lederman, Douglas

Abstract

The University of Virginia admits proportionately more blacks and children of alumni than other groups. Some other groups also get preferential treatment in admissions: athletes, musicians, artists, applicants from rural areas, children of faculty, female scientists, and other minority group members. (MSE)

Published
1995

8. Supreme Court Signals Caution on Affirmative Action.

Author

Schmidt, Peter

Abstract

Describes how, during oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court over the University of Michigan's race-conscious admissions policy, several justices indicated that they did not see any viable alternatives to the use of affirmative action in college admissions. (EV)

Published
2003

9. The Unintended Consequences of Affirmative Action.

Author

Wilson, Robin

Abstract

Describes a new book that argues that faculties lack diversity in part because affirmative action has led many minority students to enroll at colleges where they do not do well enough to go on to Ph.Ds. (EV)

Published
2003

10. States Without Affirmative Action Focus on Community-College Transfers.

Author

Hebel, Sara

Abstract

Reports on increasing efforts of universities, especially those in states where racial preferences in admissions have been outlawed, to recruit more minority students by soliciting transfer students from local community colleges. Some institutions are easing admissions policies for transfer students, holding "diversity fairs," and offering some community college courses at the university. Cites examples from Washington, California, and Texas. (DB)

Published
2000

11. Why Minority Recruiting Is Alive and Well in Texas.

Author

Selingo, Jeffrey

Abstract

Capitalizing on the ban on affirmative action in college admissions in Texas, a number of out-of-state colleges are aggressively recruiting in that state and offering generous financial aid packages. Oklahoma was one of the first states to do so. For many students, financial aid makes the difference in college attendance. (MSE)

Published
1999

12. A Lightning Rod on Civil Rights.

Author

Healy, Patrick

Abstract

Examines the work of Norma V. Cantu, the head of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and the controversy surrounding her tenure. Issues discussed include the range of concerns she must address, including affirmative action, gender equity in athletics, and college desegregation in the South, and her strategies for accomplishing the agency's goals. (MSE)

Published
1999

13. U. of California To Admit Top 4% from Every High School.

Author

Healy, Patrick

Abstract

The University of California's governing board has agreed to accept the top 4% of graduates from each high school in the state, the most significant expansion of the system's entrance criteria in two decades. The new policy will yield about 3,600 additional eligible students and improve racial/ethnic diversity, which is welcome after a ban on affirmative action. (MSE)

Published
1999

14. What Has Happened to Faculty Diversity in California?

Author

Schneider, Alison

Abstract

Two years after California's ban on racial and gender preferences became law, supporters and opponents of affirmative action are debating the impact on college faculty diversity. Some institutions have maintained slow but steady growth in minority faculty; diversity at others has declined. Some say that not all effects of the change, including attitude and institutional climate, can be measured. (MSE)

Published
1998

15. A Sweeping New Defense of Affirmative Action.

Author

Gose, Ben

Abstract

A report based on a study of 45,184 students entering 28 selective colleges in 1976 or 1989 is the most comprehensive look at how students benefitting from racial preference in college admission fared during and after college. The authors say the findings disprove the claim that black students with low test scores are better off at less selective institutions. (MSE)

Published
1998

16. A Larger and Wealthier Hispanic Community Draws the Attention of College Fund Raisers.

Author

Nicklin, Julie L.

Abstract

Statistics showing that the U.S. Hispanic population is getting larger and wealthier have altered perceptions that this is a community in need. College officials, particularly in states with large Hispanic populations, are courting Hispanic business owners and establishing networks through Hispanic alumni groups. However, some fear that antiaffirmative action measures may inhibit recruitment, scholarships for Hispanic students, and fundraising. (MSE)

Published
1997

17. Blow to Affirmative Action.

Author

Jaschik, Scott

Abstract

A Supreme Court ruling found that federal programs or policies based on race must meet a legal test of strict scrutiny, requiring the program to demonstrate a compelling government interest and be narrowly tailored. Legal experts suggest that few federal affirmative action programs currently meet the standard. (MSE)

Published
1995

18. Preferences Abolished.

Author

Lively, Kit

Abstract

The University of California Board of Regents' decision to end racial preferences in hiring, contracting, and admissions represents the most dramatic scaling-back of affirmative action policy in American higher education. The highly controversial decision is accompanied by a policy of increased outreach to low-income and otherwise disadvantaged students. The California governor's appearance at the meeting added pressure. (MSE)

Published
1995

19. Under UCLA's Elaborate System Race Makes a Big Difference.

Author

Shea, Christopher

Abstract

Both critics and supporters of affirmative action cite the commitment of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to diversity in the undergraduate population as an example supporting their positions. Merit, diversity, and family income are weighed in applicant processing. (MSE)

Published
1995

20. A Valuable Tool or Bias in Reverse?

Author

Jaschik, Scott

Abstract

Critics say the University of Maryland's race-specific scholarship program aids mostly well-off blacks and is biased against whites. The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university. (MSE)

Published
1995

21. Duke U, Struggles to Make Good on Pledge to Hire Black Professors.

Author

Magner, Denise K.

Abstract

Duke University's affirmative action plan for faculty, unveiled in the late 1980s, has had limited success. Critics blame this on a small pool of minority doctorates and in-house resistance. Success has been greatest in the history department. The school has been more successful in attracting African-American graduate students. (MSE)

Published
1993

22. Colleges Faulted for Not Considering Differences in Asian-American Groups.

Author

Magner, Denise K.

Abstract

Activists say colleges have a tendency to view all Asian Americans as a "model minority" succeeding without need for affirmative action. Demographic diversity of Asian Americans raises complex questions for institutions, who are unable to provide for needs of refugees, recent immigrants, and native-born Americans in two dozen ethnic subgroups. (MSE)

Published
1993

23. High-Court Ruling Transforms Battles over Desegregation at Colleges in 19 States.

Author

Jaschik, Scott

Abstract

This article examines the impact on institutions of higher education, particularly in 19 southern and border states, from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on how the states must show they have removed vestiges of past segregation. Its impact on affirmative action, admissions criteria, and redistricting are examined. (GLR)

Published
1992

24. How Much Do You Pay for College?

Author

Kahlenberg, Richard D.

Abstract

At Middlebury College--and on campuses throughout the country--class is coming out of the closet. Long hidden from view, economic status is emerging from the shadows, as once-taboo discussions are taking shape. The growing economic divide in America, and on American campuses, has given rise to new student organizations, and new dialogues, focused on raising awareness of class issues--and proposing solutions. With the U.S. Supreme Court likely to curtail the consideration of race in college admissions this year, the role of economic disadvantage as a basis for preferences could further raise the salience of class. Today's young people have grown up in a world unlike that of their parents. Class inequality has taken on much greater salience than racial inequality. Today's youth didn't grow up seeing fire hoses being trained on peaceful civil-rights demonstrators. Instead they have grown up in a country where racism continues to exist, but where voters elected and then re-elected a black president, and where Latinos are a rising political power. And they have come of age at a time of growing economic inequality, when the advantages of economic privilege are greater than ever before. Wealthy families have always had more resources to invest in their children, but the gap in that spending between wealthy and poor families has tripled since the 1970s. For 50 years, higher education has managed to avoid questions of class. But gaping economic disparity, changing student sentiment, and the U.S. Supreme Court seem likely to bring class back, once again, to the forefront. Having taken some modestly successful steps to include women and racial minorities, will the colleges accept the challenge?

Published
2013

25. Court Strikes down Michigan's Ban on Race-Conscious College Admissions

Author

Schmidt, Peter

Abstract

The author reports on the ruling of a divided appellate court that held that the state law unconstitutionally made it harder for minorities to seek preferences than for other groups. The court struck down a voter-passed ban on the use of race-conscious admissions by Michigan's public colleges, holding that the measure had unconstitutionally put racial-minority members at a distinct legal disadvantage in seeking from public colleges the same preferential treatment that other categories of students enjoy. The ruling, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, creates a clear division among the federal courts over the issues raised, because a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this year upheld a nearly identical California ban in a ruling that the full Ninth Circuit declined to reconsider. The existence of such a split between the federal circuit courts greatly increases the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will feel compelled to weigh in on such bans on affirmative-action preferences, which have been adopted by voters in Michigan and five other states: Arizona, California, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Washington.

Published
2012

26. On University of Texas' Flagship Campus, Soul-Searching over Diversity

Author

Sander, Libby

Abstract

The author reports on a Supreme Court case that is echoing across the University of Texas at Austin, and for some students, it is personal. Not long after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Abigail Fisher's case against the University of Texas at Austin, a lighthearted joke made the rounds at the Warfield Center for African and African-American Studies here on the flagship campus. At its core was a high-energy fifth-year student from Houston named Tedra Jacobs. Ms. Jacobs, an administrative assistant at the center, was admitted in 2008 as part of the freshman class Ms. Fisher had sought to join. Neither Ms. Jacobs nor Ms. Fisher graduated in the top 10 percent of her high-school class, a status that would have entitled her to admission under Texas law. So both were considered for admission under the university's "holistic review" policy, which includes race and ethnicity among many factors in weighing applications. Ms. Jacobs, the daughter of a single black mother and a white father, got in. Ms. Fisher was rejected, and promptly sued. The case resonates so clearly, some say, because it involves their own university. But they also take the legal arguments and policy debates to heart.

Published
2012

27. Supreme Court Hearing in Texas Admissions Case Exposes Gaps in Affirmative-Action Law

Author

Schmidt, Peter

Abstract

The author reports on the U.S. Supreme Court hearing regarding the Texas admissions case that exposes gaps in the affirmative-action law. As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin, it became evident that the court's past rulings on such policies have failed to provide colleges--or even the justices themselves--with clear guidance. In the closely watched Texas admissions case, questions arose over terms like "critical mass" and how much racial and ethnic diversity colleges need. The term "critical mass" leads colleges to focus on enrolling enough minority students to meet some numerical threshold, an approach that puts them in danger of violating the court's ban on their use of quotas. The court is expected to decide the case in 2013.

Published
2012

28. A New Kind of Affirmative Action Can Ensure Diversity

Author

Kahlenberg, Richard D.

Abstract

After almost a half century, American higher education's use of racial preferences in admissions to selective colleges may well be coming to an end. The good news for people concerned about racial and economic justice is that in several states that have banned racial affirmative action by voter referendum or executive order, legislators and college officials have not given up on pursuing diversity. To the contrary, they have invented new systems of affirmative action that in many respects are superior to the ones being replaced since they are attentive to both economic and racial diversity. Seven states, with more than one-quarter of American high-school students, have abandoned racial and ethnic preferences at state colleges and universities; in two additional states, leading institutions have dropped race from admissions decisions. The author reports on the national ban on racial preferences in admissions that could push colleges to correct deeper issues of inequality.

Published
2012

29. College Affirmative Action Faces Much Tougher Scrutiny in New Supreme Court Review

Author

Schmidt, Peter

Abstract

The Supreme Court's members generally are too decorous to exclaim "I told you so." But U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy stands perched on the edge of an I-told-you-so moment, thanks to the court's decision to take up a challenge to a race-conscious college-admission policy that poses some of the same questions he had accused fellow justices of ducking before. Justice Kennedy, the expected swing vote, warned in a 2003 case that the court should have done more to define how race could be considered in admissions. Justice Kennedy's reaction to the unsettled points of contention in the case, involving undergraduate admissions at the University of Texas at Austin, could determine whether the court imposes substantial new limits on colleges' use of affirmative-action preferences or even bars colleges from giving any consideration to applicants' ethnicity or race. When the Supreme Court last cleared the way for colleges to use race-conscious admission policies, in its 5-4 ruling in the 2003 case "Grutter v. Bollinger," involving the University of Michigan's law school, Justice Kennedy was a minority within the minority. If either a reconsideration of the research on diversity or impatience with how much leeway colleges have assumed under "Grutter" prompts Justice Kennedy to question the wisdom of allowing colleges to give any consideration to race, the era of race-conscious college-admission policies may be over.

Published
2012

30. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 26, March 4, 2005

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This March 4, 2005 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Advanced Symptoms of Advanced Degrees" (Douglas, Lawrence; George, Alexander); (2) "Mathematics and Biology: New Challenges for Both Disciplines" (Steen, Lynn Arthur); (3) "Drilling into the Bedrock of Ordinary Experience" (Boynton, Robert S.); (4) "Priming the Pump for Student Aid and What Else Has Been Left Out of the Reauthorization Debates in Congress?" (Baum, Sandy); (5) "Don't Think Twice, It's all Right" (Wilentz, Sean); (6) "A God in Colchester" (Benton, Thomas H.); (7) "Clueless in Academe" (Fish, Stanley); (8) "The Cost of Empty Seats: The NCAA's Top Division, to Many Colleges' Distress, Is about to Make It Easier for Small Football Programs to Stay in the Big Time" (Suggs, Welch); (9) "Ramping up Research in New Zealand" (Cohen, David); (10) "Google Library Project Is Culturally Biased, Says French National Librarian" (Labi, Aisha); (11) "Offering Courses Online Can Save Colleges Money, 2 Texas Studies Find" (Carnevale, Dan); (12) "Yale Law Students Urge Court Officials to Support Requests for Electronic Evidence" (Foster, Andrea L.); (13) "'OpenCourseWare' Idea Spreads: MIT's Plan to Give away Course Materials Online Gains a Few Adherents" (Young, Jeffrey R.); (14) "Science Association Assesses Impact of Quickening Drive for Patents" (Blumenstyk, Goldie); (15) "Are Endowment Managers Barking up the Wrong Tree?" (Strout, Erin); (16) "Uneven Steven: Even as New Jersey University Experienced Operating Deficits and Endowment Losses, its President Received Big Pay Raises" (Lipka, Sara); (17) "Study Offers Mixed Assessment of Race-Conscious Admissions Policies" (Schmidt, Peter); (18) "Pennsylvania Legislators Question Sallie Mae's Bid to Take over State Loan Agency" (Burd, Stephen); (19) "Change in Pell-Grant Formula Is Likely to Drive up Loans and Work Hours" (Field, Kelly); (20) "Scientists Offer New Evidence of Global Warming, Plus a Map of Genetic Variation" (Monastersky, Richard; Guterman, Lila); (21) "Federal Agents Remove Documents from U. of Washington Library" (Manoghan, Peter); and (22) "Women and Education: The Debate Goes On" (Fogg, Piper; Monastersky, Richard).

Published
2005

31. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 25, February 25, 2005

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This February 25, 2005 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Sins of Admission" (Sumner, James); (2) "Admissions Today: 6 Experts Speak Out" (Foley, Tim); (3) "College Selection Should be an Educational Experience" (Ballinger, Philip A.); (4) "The Ghosts of 'Single-Choice Early Action' Plans" (Poch, Bruce J.); (5) "Test Scores Do Not Predict Happiness" (O'Neill, Theodore A.); (6) "Putting the Michigan Rulings into Practice" (Alger, Jonathan); (7) "A Drift Toward Elitism by the 'People's Universities'" (Martin, Michael V.); (8) "Confronting the Commercialization of Admissions" (Thacker, Lloyd); (9) "Top Colleges should Select Randomly from a Pool of 'Good Enough'" (Schwartz, Barry); (10) "From 'Bastions of Privilege' to 'Engines of Opportunity'" (Bowen, William G.; Kurzweil, Martin A.; Tobin, Eugene M.); (11) "Admissions Today: 6 Experts Speak Out" (Foley, Tim); (12) "In Some States, Enrollments Will Just Keep Growing" (Gose, Ben); (13) "Looking beyond 'US News,' Rethinking the SAT" (Gose, Ben); (14) "The Chorus Grows Louder for Class-Based Affirmative Action" (Gose, Ben); (15) "Questions Loom for Applicants and Colleges" (Gose, Ben); (16) "India's Supreme Court Rules against Private College" (Neelakanthan, Shailaja); (17) "Study Urges Ontario to Increase Higher-Education Spending" (Birchard, Karen); (18) "An Institution Is Shuttered for Its Western Ways" (MacWilliams, Bryon); (19) "Imposing an Ideology in Belarus" (MacWilliams, Bryon); (20) "College Libraries Are New Targets of Telemarketing Scams" (Carlson, Scott); (21) "A Gentle Shove in the Direction of College" (Gose, Ben); (22) "High-Tech Renaissance: The Leader of a New Supercomputing in North Carolina Reaches Out to All Disciplines" (Fosters, Andrea L.); (23) "The Buck Starts Here" (Markin, Karen); (24) "In a Search of a Room with a View" (Howard, Douglas L.); (25) "On the Other Side: A Republican Who Worked with Virginia's Democratic Governor" (Hebel, Sara); (26) "Nevada Professor Fights Accusation of Making Discriminatory Remarks" (Glenn, David); (27) "Keeping Kids Close: Campuses Provide Child-Care Centers to Help Professors Cope" (Wilson, Robin); (28) "Who Owns Islamic Law?" (Glenn, David); and (29) "A Businessman Bridges the Political Aisle" (Hebel, Sara).

Published
2005

32. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 23, February 11, 2005

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This February 11, 2005 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "A Giant Eye on the Stars" (Lloyd, Marion); (2) "Taiwanese Ministry Disavows Effort to Purge 'China' from Colleges' Names" (Mooney, Paul); (3) "NCAA Punishes Lincoln U. of Missouri for Letting Ineligible Athletes Compete" (Suggs, Welch); (4) "U. of Alabama Booster Convicted of Bribery in Recruiting Scandal" (Suggs, Welch); (5) Education Department Takes Aim at Diploma Mills with a New Web Site" (Carnevale, Dan); (6) "Online Textbooks Fail to Make the Grade" (Carlson, Scott); (7) "Fruit with a Fizz"; (8) "Caught in a Steel Trap" (9) "Report Criticizes Education Dept." (Field, Kelly); (10) "New NIH Rules Ban Some Payments from Universities" (Brainard, Jeffrey); (11) "Republicans to Hold Hearing on Charges in '60 Minutes' Report" (Burd, Stephen); (12) "Republican Bill to Renew Higher-Education Act Mirrors Last Year's Legislation" (Burd, Stephen); (13) "Change in Federal Law Increases Cost of Hiring Foreign Workers" (Field, Kelly); (14) "Making a Case" (Fischer, Karin); (15) "Navigating the New Subtleties of Sex-Discrimination Cases in Academe" (Haag, Pamela); (16) "Gentle Irony"; (17) "Affirmative Action Has a Future" (Michaelson, Martin); (18) "Collaborative Efforts: Promoting Interdisciplinary Scholars" (Pfirman, Stephanie L.; Collins, James P.; Lowes, Susan; Michaels, Anthony F.); (19) "In a Blink, Bush becomes Reviewer in Chief" (Romano, Carlin); (20) "In Front of God and Oregon" (Contreras, Alan); (21) "Berea College's 'Ecological About-Face'" (Scully, Malcolm G.); (22) "From Poland to Ukraine Self-Limiting Revolution Bears Its Democratic Fruit" (Wolin, Richard); (23) "Reinventing Physics: The Search for the Real Frontier" (Laughlin, Robert B.); (24) "Fatherhood in Theory and Practice" (Nestruk, Jeffrey); (25) "Sometimes You're the Problem"; (26) "Courting Elusive Candidates" (Dowdall, Jean); (27) "Are Your Parental-Leave Policies Legal?" (Williams, Joan C.); (28) "Furor at Hebrew U. Leaves Noted Anthropologist in Limbo" (Watzman, Haim); (29) "Satiric Inferno" (Monaghan, Peter); (30) "Fearing Violence, Hamilton College Cancels Speech by Controversial Colorado Professor" (Smallwood, Scott); (31) "Community Colleges Go Globe-Trotting" (Evelyn, Jamilah); (32) "American Universities Step up Their Sales Pitch Overseas" (McMurtrie, Beth); (33) "Pomona's Prime Number" (Lipka, Sara); and (34) "Government Weighs Taxing Tuition Perks at Colleges" (Selingo, Jeffrey).

Published
2005

33. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 20, January 21, 2005

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This January 21, 2005 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "The Perils of Pursuing Prestige" (Lovett, Clara M.); (2) "A 'Civilizing' Mission in Late Colonial Kenya" (Elkins, Caroline); (3) "The Gospel of Born-Again Bodies" (Griffith, R. Marie); (4) "For Keep's Sake: A Chairman's Files" (Goldstein, Warren); (5) "Lending Their Hands after the Tsunami"; (6) "In Indonesia, Universities Are Transformed in to Relief Centers" (Overland, Martha Ann); (7) "Faculty Group Calls for Academic Integrity as Basis for Athletics Reform" (Suggs, Welch); (8) "At Its Convention, NCAA Preaches Fiscal Restraint and Academic Rigor" (Suggs, Welch); (9) "Scholars Say College Admissions Offices Misuse Advanced Placement Data: A Study Finds that the High-School Courses Aren't Always Good Predictors of College Success" (Glenn, David); (10) "Internet Experts Consult Their Crystal Balls" (Carnevale, Dan); (11) "Four Days in the Digital Future: A College Manager Does Her Legwork at the Year's Biggest Electronics Show" (Young, Jeffrey R.); (12) "Investors Increase Their Stakes in 3 Higher-Education Companies" (Blumenstyk, Goldie); (13) "The Health-Care Tussle: Colleges and Their Employees Struggle over the Growing Costs of Coverage" (Glenn, David); (14) "Affirmative Action and Military Recruiting Spur Debate at Law-School Meeting" (Mangan, Katherine S.); (15) "In Tsunami's Wake, Scientists Sift for Clues and Discoveries" (Monastersky, Richard); (16) "Torture's Paper Trail: A New Collection of Government Memoranda, Some Written by Professors, Shows how Officials Justified Prisoner Abuse in the Campaign against Terrorism" (Mangan, Katherine S.); (17) "Faculty Group Censures Benedict College again over 'A for Effort' Policy" (Smallwood, Scott); (18) "Stepping Out: The Discipline of Dance Gains a Foothold in Academe" (Lipka, Sara); and (19) "A Campus in Indonesia Survives, Barely" (Overland, Martha Ann).

Published
2005

34. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 19, January 14, 2005

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This January 14, 2005 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Utopia College: A Distinctive Alternative" (Nemko, Marty); (2) "An Inspired Collection Honors a Founder of the Indie Movement" (Sterritt, David); (3) "The Newspaper Appreciation as Death Kit" (Romano, Carlin); (4) "Time Has Not Favored Racial Preferences" (Clegg, Roger); (5) "The City Shall Rise Again: Urban Resilience in the Wake of Disaster" (Vale, Lawrence J.; Campanella, Thomas J.); (6) "Lawrence and Alex's Great Publishing Adventure" (Douglas, Lawrence; George, Alexander); (7) "Fat Man, Thin Man, Bike Man" (Smallwood, Scott); (8) "In Syria, Building a Civil Society Book by Book: A Young Publisher Sets Out to Translate the Works of Western Political Philosophy into Arabic" (Zoepf, Katherine); (9) "Coming Soon to a Campus Near You: Movie-Industry Lawsuits" (Read, Brock); (10) "Still Gracious After All These Years" (Biemiller, Lawrence); (11) "To Market, To Market: A Handful of Colleges Have Turned to Outside Investors to Help Sell Their Inventions" (Blumenstyk, Goldie); (12) "Sallie Mae Pushes $1-Billion Offer to Take Over State-Run Pennsylvania Lender" (Burd, Stephen); (13) "President's Choice for Education Secretary Wins Unanimous Approval from Senate Panel" (Field, Kelly); (14) "Affirmative Action, Relatively Speaking: At Many Selective Colleges, the Children of Employees Get an Edge in the Admissions Office" (Schmidt, Peter); (15) "Michigan: Who Really Won? Colleges' Cautious Reaction to the Supreme Court's Affirmative-Action Decisions May Have Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory" (Selingo, Jeffrey); (16) "Israeli Academic Is among Those Accused of Forging Inscriptions on Antiquities" (Watzman, Haim); (17) "Plumbing Saturn's Secrets" (Monastersky, Richard); (18) "Mystery Moon: Scientists Will Soon Make a Big Splash" (Monastersky, Richard); (19) "The Scary Place": Thousands Who Flocked to the MLA Meeting Scored Interviews and Jobs. Thousands More Did Not" (Smallwood, Scott); (20) "The Professor Who Lost His Classroom" (Wilson, Robin); and (21) "Colleges Move to Aid Victims of Tsunamis: Some Campuses Suffered Damage in Indonesia, but Most are Unscathed" (Lipka, Sara).

Published
2005

35. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 18, January 7, 2005

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This January 7, 2005 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "College Presidents Must Take Charge of College Sports" (Cowen, Scott S.); (2) "Colleges Need to Give Students Intensive Care" (Shelley, Phillip H.); (3) "A Hollow Victory at the Expense of Our Military" (Bashman, Howard J.); (4) "Striking down the Solomon Amendment on Military Recruiting: A Blow for Academic Freedom" (Mach, Daniel); (5) "Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions" (Wilder, Stanley); (6) "An Unsettled Forecast for Global Warming" (Scully, Malcolm G.); (7) "Don Quixote at 400: Still Conquering Hearts" (Stavans, Ilan); (8) "From a Colonial Past to a New Multiculturalism" (Gilroy, Paul); (9) "The Humanities for Cocktail Parties--And Beyond" (Livingston, Rick); (10) "The State of Small Cheese" (Biemiller, Lawrence); (11) "A Nursing Crisis in the Philippines: Foreign Demand for Its Nurses May Be Ruining the Country's Health" (Overland, Martha Ann); (12) "No Contest" (Jacobson, Jennifer); (13) "Dad, What Are You Doing Here? At Whitman College, Moms and Dads Hit the Books with Their Freshmen" (Monaghan, Peter); (14) "Ending Bitter Fight, PeopleSoft Agrees to Merge with Oracle" (Carnevale, Dan); (15) "Google's New Deals Promise to Realize a 60-Year-Old Vision" (Young, Jeffrey R.); (16) "Google Will Digitize and Search Millions of Books from 5 Top Research Libraries" (Carlson, Scott; Young, Jeffrey R.); (17) "Election Panel Begins Inquiry into Colleges that Sponsored Speeches by Filmmaker" (Selingo, Jeffrey); (18) "Federal Court Declines to Set New Limits on Affirmative Action" (Schmidt, Peter); (19) "Pork Crowds Out the Competition" (Field, Kelly); (20) "Anthropologists, Few in Number, Revisit a 1919 Debate" (Glenn, David); (21) "US Treasury Department Lifts Restrictions on Authors in Embargoed Countries" (Guterman, Lila); (22) "Prophet or Dreamer?" (Watzman, Haim); (23) "Number of Doctorates Edges up Slightly" (Gravois, John); (24) "Just What Is a Dossier?" (Bennett, Graham; Lindsey, Jason); (25) "One University, under God?" (Fish, Stanley); (26) "All Terrorists Great and Small: Veterinary Schools Train Students to Help Spot and Prevent Bioterrorism" (Mangan, Katherine S.); (27) "Personnel: Pay Gap Widens between Public and Private Universities" (McCormack, Eugene); (28) "Endowments: Earnings Rebound Modestly" (Strout, Erin); (29) "State Appropriations: Improving, but Tempered by Rising Costs" (Hebel, Sara); (30) "Federal Spending: The Good Times have Stopped Rolling" (Burd, Stephen); (31) "Risk Management: College Legal Staffs Continue to Grow" (Lipka, Sara); (32) "Labor: Unions Cope with a Crucial Loss" (Smallwood, Scott); (33) "For-Profit Education: Online Courses Fuel Growth" (Blumenstyk, Goldie); (34) "Tuition: Smaller Increases Are a Cause for Optimism" (Fischer, Karin); (35) "Facilities: Playing Catch-Up on Maintenance" (Schmidt, Peter); (36) "A Year of Recovery"; and (37) "Change in Federal Formula Means Thousands May Lose Student Aid."

Published
2005

36. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 12, November 12, 2004

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This November 12, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "The Transcendent Role of Chaplains" (Schaper, Donna); (2) "Offbeat Director's Sophistication Isn't Always Accompanied by Emotional Maturity" (Sterritt, David); (3) "Presidential Libraries Are Valuable Reflections of Their Eras" (Nelson, Michael); (4) "Peeping Tom's Juvenile Jaunt" (Showalter, Elaine); (5) "Seeing a Life through Biography, Letters, and Fiction" (Walker, Pierre A.); (6) "Illegal Trafficking in Arms, Drugs and International Scholarship" (O'Neil, Robert); (7) "Liberal Groupthinker Is Anti-Intellectual" (Bauerlein, Mark); (8) "Liberal Arts: Vocation vs. Vocational" (Stone, Elizabeth); (9) "The Butterfly Effect" (Fogg, Piper); (10) "Shifting from West to East" (Labi, Aisha); (11) "Does Affirmative Action Hurt Black Law Students?" (Mangan, Katherine S.); (12) "Testing Service to Unveil an Assessment of Computer and Information Literacy" (Young, Jeffrey R.); (13) "When Good Technology Means Bad Teaching" (Young, Jeffrey R.); (14) "Arendt Biographer Corrects Mistake Linking Her to Jewish Terrorist Group" (McLemee, Scott); (15) "Doctoral Student, Scholar, Baby Sitter?" (Perlmutter, David D.); (16) "Administrative Trials and Errors" (Midler, Frank); (17) "Breaking into Publishing" (Demers, Elizabeth); (18) "Teaching the Body to Kill Cancer" (Guterman, Lila); (19) "When Private Colleges Come Knocking" (Fogg, Piper); (20) "Forecasters' Models Were More on the Mark than in 2000" (Glenn, David); (21) "Experts Remain at Odds Over E-Voting" (Forter, Andrea L.); (22) "In a Battleground State, Determined Students Waited Hours to Vote" (Farrell, Elizabeth F.); (23) "Students Faced Long Lines, High Expectations" (Hoover, Eric); (24) "California Universities Start Preparing for Windfall Stem-Cell Research" (Brainard, Jeffrey); (25) "Dick's Armey's Forces Win Again" (Schmidt, Peter); and (26) "GOP Looks to Put Its Mark on Higher Education" (Brainard, Jeffrey; Burd, Stephen; Field, Burd; Fischer, Karin; Selingo, Jeffrey).

Published
2004

37. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 50, Number 33, April 23, 2004

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for colleges and university faculty members and administrators. This April 23, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Academe Must Work with the Intelligence Community" (Rindskopf, Elizabeth); (2) "Masked and Explicated: Bob Dylan and His Tenured Disciples" (Yaffe, David); (3) "'Integration,' Not 'Diversity'" (Lehman, Jeffrey S.); (4) "Protecting Donors' Privacy Is a Matter of Good Ethics and Good Business" (Blass, David); (5) "Donations to Public-University Foundations Ought to Be Matters of Public Record" (Cohen, Rick); (6) "In Central Asia, an American Professor Finds Hostility Spiked with Cynicism" (Burkett, Elinor); (7) "Mathematics with a Moral" (Osserman, Robert) (8) "The Antidote to Academic Orthodoxy" (Balch, Stephen H.); (9) "A Downhill Battle" (Drozdowski, Mark J.); (10) "Singing the Baby Blues" (Williams, Joan C.); (11) "What Am I Worth?" (Baron, Dennis); (12) "A Mother's Gift: Hidden Letters from the Holocaust" (Blumenstyk, Goldie); (13) "Travel Tips 101: Tips on Steering Clear of Trouble" (Wheeler, David L.); (14) "Studying in Safety: in Post-9/11 World, Colleges Struggle to Protect Students Abroad" (Jacobson, Jennifer); (15) "NCAA Weighs New Penalties for Academic Laggards" (Suggs, Welch); (16) "Guarded Optimism on the Job Trail" (Farrell, Elizabeth F.); (17) "Attacks by Hackers Prompt Academic Supercomputers to Block Remote Access" (Kiernan, Vincent); (18) "Colleges See High Costs in Letting Government Tap 'Internet Telephones'" (Foster, Andrea L.); (19) "Will Colleges Miss the Next Big Thing? Technology Budget Cuts Could Hurt Innovation on Campuses, Officials Worry" (Young, Jeffrey); (20) "No Longer a Safety School: Northeastern U. Revamps Its Image and Strives to Rack the National Rankings' Top 100" (June, Audrey William); (21) "Wary of E-Voting, Some Professors Sound the Alarm" (Schmidt, Peter); (24) "Faculty Salaries at More Than 1,400 Institutions"; (25) Faculty Salaries Rise 2.1%, the Lowest Increase in 30 Years" (Wilson, Robin); (26) "Singular Mistreatment: Unmarried Professors Are Outsiders in the Ozzie and Harriet World of Academe" (Wilson, Robin); and (27) "Sen. Kerry Proposes Student-Loan Auctions" (Selingo, Jeffrey).

Published
2004

38. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 50, Number 30, April 2, 2004

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This April 2, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Black Colleges and the Politics of Race" (Samuels, Albert L.); (2) "The First Step on a Long March" (Kluger Richard); (3) "Do You Know What It Means to Find Peace in Queens?" (Monaghan, Peter); (4) "A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary Politics" (Wolfe, Alan); (5) "Who Should Pay the Bill for a Private Education?" (Blaney, Dorothy); (6) "Business Curricula Should Integrate Liberal-Arts and Vocational Skills" (Sharpe, Norean Radke; Prichett, Gordon D.); (7) "Now Is the Time to Start Studying the Internet Age" (Cole, Jeffrey); (8) "Thwarting Misbehavior in the Classroom" (Perlmutter, David D.); (9) "The Real Lessons of a 'Magnificent Mirage'" (Bell, Derrick A.); (10) "An Imperfect Desegregation" (Clotfelter, Charles T.); (11) "A New View of the Role of Courts" (Cottrol, Robert J.; Diamond, Raymond T.; Ware, Leland B.); (12) "Building a Road to a Diverse Society" (Tatun, Beverly Daniel); (13) "Your Player's Keeper" (Marino, Gordon); (14) "The Mommy Candidate: For a Would-Be-Law Professor, Going on the Job Market Means Weighing Career Moves Against Her Family's Happiness" (Goode, Julia); (15) "Remembering the Old Lions" (Benton, Thomas); (16) "Plus CA Change: The Trouble with Long-Range Planning Is That It Almost Never Works" (Fish, Stanley); (17) "Cracking Down in Taiwan" (Lin-Liu, Jen); (18) "Textbook Pirates Find a Huge Market in China: Foreign Publishers are Frustrated by a Lack of Government Cooperation, but Also Fear Being Shut Out of the Market" (Lin-Liu, Jen); (19) "Staggering Losses in Latin America: Public Indifference Allows Piracy to Flourish throughout the Region" (Lloyd, Marion); (20) "Publishers Battle Pirates in India with Little Success: Raids Produce Dozens of Arrests but No Convictions" (Overland, Martha Ann); (21) "Don't Steal this Book: Textbook Piracy Runs Rampant in Developing Countries, Costing Publishers--And Authors-Millions of Dollars" (Bollag, Burton); (22) "Courses in Computer Forensics Gain Popularity on Campuses" (Carlson, Scott); (23) "Prisoners in the Virtual Classroom: Technology Makes Inmate Education Cheaper, but the Programs Face Unusual Challenges" (Carlson, Scott); (24) "Member of Accrediting Group has Ph.D. from 'Notorious Diploma Mill'" (Bartlett, Thomas); (25) "Clean and Green Get Head of Steam: College Campuses Are Embracing Alternative Energy, and Student Activism is the Engine of Change" (Meline, Megan); (26) "Advocacy Groups Pressure Colleges to Disclose Affirmative-Action Policies" (Schmidt, Peter); (27) "Cultivating Colleges in New Jersey: After Years of Neglecting its Public Institutions, Can the Garden State Keep Its Students Home?" (Arnone, Michael); (28) "Goodbye, Little Green Men. Hello, Astrobiology: The Search for Extraterrestrials Spawns a Scientific Discipline That Is Gaining Respect" (Monastersky, Richard); (29) "Union Blues in the Sunshine State: Leaders of the U. of Florida Say Collective Bargaining Would Hamper the Institution's Bid for Excellence" (Smallwood, Scott); (30) "New Courses in the Cards" (Arnone, Michael); and (31) "Graduation Rates Called a Poor Measure of Colleges: Report Says Data Don't Give a True Picture of Success" (Burd, Stephen).

Published
2004

39. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 50, Number 28, March 19, 2004

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"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This March 19, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "A Support Group for Terminal Grad Students" (Douglas, Lawrence; George, Alexander); (2) "Edutainment for the College Classroom" (Marinelli, Don; Pausch, Randy); (3) "The Passion They Know not What They Watch" (Beal, Timothy K.); (4) "Toward Affirmative Action for Economic Diversity" (Kahlenberg, Richard D.); (5) "The Perfect Demographic Storm: Entitlements Imperil America's Future" (Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Burns, Scott); (6) "Who Needs an Agent? You Do!" (Toor, Rachel); (7) "Jewish 'Denominations'; Class; and Close Readings"; (8) "Will Success Spoil Saint Joe's?" (Suggs, Welch); (9) "Surds-Free Socializing" (Jacobson, Jennifer); (10) "Company to Tract Citations of Online Scholarship" (Kiernan, Vincent); (11) "Giving to Colleges Reaches a Plateau" (June Audrey, Williams); (12) "On the Part-Time Track" (Burke, Michael D.); (13) "I'm Professor Nobody" (Snowe, Lucy); (14) "Adventures in Commercial Publishing" (Lang, James M.); (15) "Colleges Fear IRS Plan could Make more Students Liable for Social Security Taxes" (Arnone, Michael); (16) "Panel Lays out Agendas for Improving Federal Policies on Academic Research" (Brainard, Jeffrey); (17) "2 Scientists on Bioethics Council Say Its Reports Favor Bush Ideology" (Brainard, Jeffrey; Blumenstyk, Goldie); (18) "Senate Weighs Plan to Wipe out Shortfall in Pell Grant Program" (Burd, Stephen); (19) "At U. of Washington, a First Test of the Michigan Rulings" (Schmidt, Peter); (20) "Hot Type" (Glenn, David); (21) "Pulling Back the Veil" (Bollag, Burton); (22) "Making Peace in Political Science" (Fogg, Piper); (23) "Economics as a Foreign Language" (Galbraith, Kale); (24) "No Week at the Beach" (Lipka, Sara); (25) "It's a Shell Game: Community Colleges Expect Loss in Job-Training Funds Despite Bush's Promises" (Evelyn, Jamilah); (26) "The Long Climb to College: An Uphill Battle for Europe's Gypsies" (Woodard, Colin); (27) "As the Worm Turns: Colleges Brace for the Next Worm" (Foster, Andrea L.); (28) "Not Just for Minority Students Anymore: Fearing Charges of Discrimination, Colleges Open Minority Scholarships and Programs to Student of All Races" (Schmidt, Peter); and (29) "Move to Fire 2 Professors Roils Campus in Mississippi" (Bartlett, Thomas).

Published
2004

40. Excerpts from 5 Opinions Issued by U.S. Supreme Court in Affirmative-Action Case.

Author

Powell, Lewis F.

Abstract

Excerpts from five Supreme Court justices' opinions (Powell, O'Connor, White, Marshall, and Stevens) in a decision striking down an affirmative-action agreement protecting the jobs of minority-group teachers with less seniority than some white teachers during layoffs are presented. (MSE)

Published
1986

41. The 'Silent Killer' of Minority Enrollments.

Author

Evelyn, Jamilah

Abstract

Describes how state budget cuts may pose a greater threat to minority access to higher education than would a Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action in the Michigan cases. (EV)

Published
2003

42. Runaway Board?

Author

Bartlett, Thomas and Rooney, Megan

Abstract

Discusses how students and administrators at Virginia Tech are angry that the governing board eliminated affirmative action and made other important decisions without consultation. (EV)

Published
2003

43. The Broad Reach of the Michigan Cases.

Author

Selingo, Jeffrey

Abstract

Discusses how two affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court involving a public university (the University of Michigan) are expected to also affect private colleges in terms of admissions and financial aid. (EV)

Published
2003

44. U. of California Ends Affirmative-Action Ban.

Author

Schmidt, Peter

Abstract

Discusses how the University of California's Board of Regents, under pressure from students and lawmakers, rescinded its policies against affirmative action, although a state ban remains in effect. (EV)

Published
2001

45. Debating the Benefits of Affirmative Action.

Author

Schmidt, Peter

Abstract

Discusses how as the issue of race-conscious admissions policies moves through the courts, scholars engage in a bitter debate over the educational benefits of diversity. (EV)

Published
2001

46. The Unusual Rules for Affirmative Action in Medical Schools.

Author

Mangan, Katherine S.

Abstract

Guidelines developed by the Association of American Medical Colleges limit racial preferences for admissions and scholarships to students from only four designated minority groups, depriving students from other ethnicities from affirmative action eligibility. Discusses the implications for student diversity of changes in this policy. (SLD)

Published
2000

47. A Professor's Controversial Analysis of Why Black Students Are 'Losing the Race.'

Author

Reisberg, Leo

Abstract

Reports on the controversial stands taken by John H. McWhorter, a black University of Berkeley associate professor, in his book "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America." The book opposes affirmative action and suggests that black academic achievement lags because of a mindset endemic to black culture that discourages learning, while encouraging concepts of victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism. (DB)

Published
2000

48. A Quiet End to the Use of Race in College Admissions in Florida.

Author

Selingo, Jeffrey

Abstract

Reports on plans for new "race-blind" entrance criteria at the 10 public universities in Florida. Plans call for ending racial preferences in graduate education altogether and replacing undergraduate preferences with a guarantee of admission to a state university for the top 20 percent of Florida high school graduates. Critics and supporters are quoted concerning expected effects on minority enrollment. (DB)

Published
1999

49. More Points for 'Strivers': The New Affirmative Action?

Author

Gose, Ben

Abstract

Researchers at Educational Testing Service and elsewhere are devising methods that could help admissions officers measure educational disadvantage more systematically. One system identifies "strivers," any student scoring more than 200 points above the average score of peers with similar backgrounds, taking into account 14 variables such as family income, parents' education, and the rigor of high school courses taken. (MSE)

Published
1999

50. U. of Mass. Limits Racial Preferences, Despite Vow To Increase Minority Enrollment.

Author

Healy, Patrick

Abstract

The decision of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to stop giving significant admissions preference to minority students sparked student protests and debate about universities' promises of affirmative action. Constitutional scholars and higher-education officials found the university's numerical goals for admissions legally risky, so the institution will limit but not abandon admission preferences. (MSE)

Published
1999

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