This research explores how organizations decide how to respond to the laws that affect them. It investigates how they convert abstract legal changes into concrete policy responses. Much of the legal impact literature focuses exclusively on either on legal institutions and social outcomes, or on the dynamics within organizations. This work…

This timely book examines issues pertaining to equal opportunity--affirmative action, challenges to it, and alternatives for improving opportunities for underrepresented groups--in higher education today. Its starting point is California's Proposition 209, which ended race-based affirmative action in public education and the workplace in 1996. The…

For more than 30 years, affirmative action efforts have been present on college and university campuses, as have been the controversies that surround them. To this day, it remains a hotly contested issue in higher education, and recent court decisions once again are affecting how students will be selected for admission to institutions of higher…

The current bias of law schooling, particularly in the first year, in favor of the ordinary action at law for damages, should be reviewed in light of the significance of contemporary actions "in equity" for affirmative court orders, says this professor of law. (LBH)

Reviews key 1997 judicial decisions relating to Title IX gender discrimination claims by students in higher education, decisions concerning California's Proposition 209 (designed to end "preferences" in education and other contexts), and the "McDonnell Douglas" burden-shifting framework for disparate race claims in the…

A successful affirmative action program requires coordinated effort throughout the institution. This article shares some of the benefits of experience with a three-year-old comprehensive program at Florida State University. (Editor/LBH)

Regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 were published in 1975 amid considerable speculation over their impact on college student affairs. More than one year later, there does not appear to be substantial understanding in the higher education community of what Title IX has meant for students and for administrators.…

This paper examines the use of statistical evidence, specifically regression analysis, in employment discrimination cases on college and university cases. Sections of the paper provide the following: (1) a description of regression analysis focusing on the specific features that make it appropriate for use in discrimination lawsuits; (2) a review…

Evaluates the impact of major court cases on racial justice and social change in the United States. Topics discussed include the legislative response to social problems, the Nixon Court, affirmative action, and the unredeemed promise. Journal available from Daedalus Subscription Department, 1172 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02134.…

Information on law and higher education is presented through approximately 350 cases and materials on colleges in court, noting that the study of higher education law is developing rapidly. Five chapters are as follows: (1) the legal governance of higher education (e.g. what college is, the establishment of private colleges, religion and higher…

Past problems of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with budgeting, staffing, and priorities are reviewed and current emphasis on organizational changes are addressed. Focus is on charge processing and resolution procedures, the use of litigation, systemic activities, and affirmative action and testing guidelines. (LBH)

Summarizes the historical evolution of both the legal and moral arguments surrounding affirmative action in higher education. Discusses black higher education institutions and black scholars, desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, admissions quotas, and the connection between law and educational policy. (MKA)

Four issues of interest in the AAUP Office of Staff Counsel are examined including the First Amendment and "Matters of Public Concern," the Supreme Court's latest ruling on affirmative action, collective bargaining in church-related institutions, and faculty liability for institutional attorney fees. (MLW)

Student affairs practitioners today must often face difficulties related to the promotion of multiculturalism while maintaining individual rights and freedoms with a college population. Addresses concerns faced by student affairs practitioners: law and regulations and promoting diversity. Discusses legislative directives, current laws, and recent…

The Self-Evaluation Package is process-oriented. The material provides for an assessment of the current status of policies, procedures, forms, and publications, as well as documentation of the results of analyses, plans, and time-frames for corrective actions. The 16 individual packets contained in this Self-Evaluation Package can be distributed…