(1989). Disparate Impact Analysis in Subjective Employment Decisions: "Watson v. Fort Worth Bank.". West's Education Law Reporter, v52 n1 p9-18 May 11. The United States Supreme Court decision in "Watson v. Fort Worth Bank" will have a profound effect on the policies that employers follow in hiring, promoting, and terminating employees. This paper examines the "Watson" decision, identifies the problems it creates, and offers advice on how to deal with these problems. (MLF)…
(1989). The Limits of HRD. Training, v26 n5 p25-30,32-33 May. Discusses whether intelligence testing belongs in the workplace. Consequences of that decision relate to whether it is better for society to endorse the ascendancy of individuals or whether the rights of disadvantaged groups should take precedence. (JOW)…
(1995). The Special Preferences Are Not Limited to Blacks. Chronicle of Higher Education, v41 n33 pA16-19 Apr 28. 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)…
(1992). Leadership, Diversity, and Columbus: A Manifesto for Social Change. Community, Technical, and Junior College Journal, v62 n5 p18-22 Apr-May. Discusses diversity issues related to sensitivity to differences, opportunities afforded by the Columbus quincentenary for discourse on diversity and democracy, and demographic trends. Provides a rationale for promoting leadership diversity. Assesses the current status of women and minorities in public and private leadership. Discusses steps in creating leadership diversity. (DMM)…
(1994). The Incidence of Racial Issues in White Counseling Dyads: An Exploratory Survey. Counselor Education and Supervision, v33 n4 p305-13 Jun. Surveyed 244 white counselors to examine whether these counselors were encountering racial concerns with their white clients. Findings revealed that 45% of responding counselors reported white clients raising racial issues relevant to counseling, with 26% reporting white clients with racial concerns as a main counseling issue. (Author/NB)…
(1993). Minority and Female Representation Plans at Accredited Schools. Journalism Educator, v48 n1 p28-36 Spr. Reports on plans of accredited journalism schools to increase minority and female representation on faculty and in the student body, including activities of the plans themselves and how effective the accrediting council judges them to be. (SR)…
(1998). Entitled: Confessions of a Model Meritocrat. Social Justice, v25 n3 p128-37. Describes the entitlements and privileges received by a British immigrant to the United States on the strength of his perceived white upper-class background. Notes that the \meritocracy\ of the past revered by many writers was, in fact, a system of unequal opportunity based on race, class, and gender. (SLD)…
(2001). Access to Higher Education for Nontraditional Students and Minorities in a Technology-Focused Society. Urban Education, v36 n1 p129-44 Jan. Examines gains in enrollment of women and minorities in higher education, arguing that although access has dramatically improved for women, particularly nontraditional students, this is not true for minorities, especially African Americans. Nontraditional African American women are showing higher rates of participation than their male counterparts. Discusses implications of these issues in a largely urban, computer-based economy. (SM)…
(2002). The Economy of Literacy: How the Supreme Court Stalled the Civil Rights Movement. Harvard Educational Review, v72 n2 p206-29 Sum. Analyzes three landmark Supreme Court cases in which the value of literacy and the reality of racial discrimination were contested. Concludes that there is an ideology in which the economy of literacy is regarded as white property and argues that these court decisions have stalled the civil rights movement. (Contains 59 references.) (SK)…
(2001). Race-Conscious Admissions in Higher Education. Journal of College and University Law, v28 n1 p153-232. Reviews major legal decisions on the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions in higher education and addresses non-race-conscious methods of increasing minority enrollment. Concludes with a discussion of how policy makers who choose to implement race-conscious admissions can maximize the likelihood of the admissions system passing constitutional muster. (EV)…
(2004). Legal and Policy Issues: Removing the Residue of Past Segregation in Higher Education. Journal of Negro Education, v73 n3 p350-364 Sum. The impact of the Knight v. Alabama ruling by looking at undergraduate student demographic data for historically African American Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University and traditionally American Auburn University and the University of Alabama is discussed. To eradicate the remaining residue of discrimination and segregation, the court mandated that Alabama engage in affirmative efforts to do the same….
(2007). Strategic Plan to Ensure Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Connecticut Public Higher Education, 2007. Annual Report. Connecticut Department of Higher Education (NJ1) Increasing the participation of minority groups at public colleges and universities is a longstanding goal of the Board of Governors for Higher Education, as first outlined in its 1983 "Strategic Plan to Ensure Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Connecticut Public Higher Education." The minority groups defined by the plan are: Hispanic/Latino, African American, Asian American and Native American–listed in order of their current proportional presence in the state's population. Since enactment of the "Strategic Plan", students attending and graduating from Connecticut's public colleges and universities have become more racially and ethnically diverse and 2006 continues a trend of year-to-year incremental progress. The number of minority group members among both enrolled students and degree recipients at the undergraduate level reached record levels. There has also been a steady increase in the number of minority group members employed as professionals at public… [PDF]
(2006). Serving the Underserved. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, v23 n19 p32-35 Nov. Efforts to expand diversity in the health professions has received a boost from a prominent member of Congress. U.S. Senator Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, recently introduced a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act as part of a comprehensive initiative to improve the health of minority and other underserved populations. This bill, which is being co-sponsored by Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Barack Obama of Illinois and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, would include funding for the country's colleges and universities to recruit, train and retain minority students in the health professions. The proposed amendment comes on the heels of two studies documenting the barriers colleges and universities face in advancing health career opportunities for under-represented populations. Groundbreaking reports published by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce examine the low levels of minority… [Direct]
(1998). The Humanities Today. This paper discusses several of the many books and articles which have appeared during the past decade which chronicle the supposedly precarious state of the humanities in higher education. The paper focuses on the first book, the surprise best seller, "The Closing of the American Mind," written by Allan Bloom in 1987 and especially on a new book written in 1997 by John N. Ellis, "Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities." The paper contends that in making their analyses these academic authors ignore any events which occur outside the university campus and that they also ignore the real reasons for the changing nature of humanities education in the United States. Contains 7 references. (Author)… [PDF]
(1983). [Civil Rights Goals for the Year 2000 and the Means for Achieving Them.]. Today, the United States stands at a critical crossroad with regard to civil rights; the choice is between an officially colorblind society and a government-supported, race-conscious one. The purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments was to end a discriminatory system and to erect in its place a regime of race neutrality. In 1896, the separate-but-equal doctrine of \Plessy\ turned back the clock, and it was not until \Brown v. Board of Education\ (1954) that the Supreme Court acknowledged that race neutrality is required by the Equal Protection Clause. Judicial decisions and civil rights legislation of the late 1950s and the 1960s all endorsed the principle of race neutrality. Today, however, there are those who reject this principle in favor of preferential treatment for all members of the previously disadvantaged racial group. Such a system defeats the very purpose it intends to serve, for race-based preferences cut against the grain of equal opportunity, and in the process… [PDF]