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…

Conducted a series of analyses under various assumptions concerning affirmative action plans, causes of racial differences in average college admissions test scores, and racial differences in accuracy of performance predictions. Evidence suggesting a lower level of predictive accuracy for African Americans implies that, under affirmative action,…

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…

Examines excerpts from the late James Farmer's presentation to the William Monroe Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts. Farmer devoted his life to civil rights activism and social reform. Comments on the most recent Trotter Review, "Diversity, Pedagogy and Higher Education: Lessons and Accomplishments," which includes 17…

Places current controversies over affirmative action and higher education desegregation in the historical context of legal challenges to the U.S. racial social order. With a specific focus on the role of federal courts, the article provides an overview of the legal cases and issues involved in efforts to address the effects of segregation and…

One of the major objectives at Diverse is to bring clarity and understanding to the most pressing issues that confront the higher education community. Nowhere is there a greater need for such lucidity than in the area of diversity. In the most honored of academic and campus traditions, Diverse convened a group of scholars from various colleges,…

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…

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…

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…

One of the founders of University Centers for Rational Alternatives and its present executives secretary and coordinator of the Committee on Academic Nondiscrimination and Integrity present alternative views to some of the comments regarding opposition to affirmative action made by Marilyn Gittell in "The Illusion of Affirmative Action,"…

Following the desegregationists' victory in "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954, there came a succession of gains for desegregation, until a new phenomenon developed in "Bakke v. Regents of University of California" in 1973. Since Bakke's grades and test scores were higher than those of some minority applicants admitted to…

A survey was undertaken of 102 community colleges in California to determine: (1) managerial practices related to affirmative action; (2) the relationship between the management of Title IX and affirmative action programs; and (3) the extent to which the duties of affirmative action officers are considered full-time or collateral duties. The…

Title IX addresses itself to the elimination of sex discrimination in many of the major areas of education: curriculum, counseling, athletics, extracurricular activities, employee benefits, staffing, and so forth. Primary responsibility for the enforcement of Title IX rests with the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health, Education and…

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Departmental Regulation (45 CFR Part 86) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in the operation of most federally-assisted education programs. This document provides guidance with respect to the major first-year responsibilities of an educational institution to insure equal opportunity in…

Recently, higher education institutions were mandated by law under Executive Order 11246 to develop systematized and action-oriented procedures aimed at eliminating discrimination in employment opportunities and conditions on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. The end product of such a program development has been labeled…