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Bryan J. Cook – Urban Institute, 2023
There is an abundance of research on the college admissions process and the practices selective schools employ to evaluate and select students. Most findings are complex, nuanced, or conflicting. Less than a month after the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled in "Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard" and "Students…
Descriptors: College Admission, Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Access to Education
Office for Civil Rights (ED), Washington, DC. – 1991
This pamphlet provides an overview of the historic role, accomplishments, and challenges which face historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as they carry out their unique mission. It summarizes the efforts of the Department of Education aimed at strengthening HBCUs, while assuring that higher education programs do not discriminate on…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College Admission, College Choice
Cramer, Jerome – American School Board Journal, 1982
Describes Ku Klux Klan recruiting and literature dissemination activities in schools and communities and two particularly difficult conflicts caused by Klan activities in Meriden (Connecticut) and East Baton Rouge (Louisiana). Explains the legal issues involved and possible board and administrator responses to such activities and conflicts.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, After School Programs, Board of Education Policy, Compliance (Legal)
Kramer, Bill – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1993
Recently Title IX lawsuits have highlighted the vulnerability of colleges and universities to claims of gender discrimination in intercollegiate athletics. Female athletes have sued schools for eliminating varsity sports and for failing to create varsity teams. In addition, discrimination claims related to other gender-based issues have been…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Athletics, Colleges, Compliance (Legal)