A U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld significant portions of an arrangement allowing Rutgers University faculty to pay agency fees in lieu of union dues and still be covered by a collective bargaining contract, despite contention that aspects of the agreement violated their constitutional rights to free speech. (MSE)

Politics and science have become too much entangled in the controversy over creationism and the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Political opinion is irrelevant when the scientific principles underlying a particular issue are being discussed. (MSE)

The Supreme Court's three 1986 decisions and March 1987 decision concerning affirmative action and their implications for hiring, promotion, layoffs, and admissions in higher education institutions are discussed. (MSE)

The Supreme Court determined that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act provided an exception for religious organizations from the prohibition against religious discrimination. However, the opinion does not address the issue of religiously oriented educational institutions. Two recent cases involving Marquette University in the Seventh Circuit are…

A recent United State Supreme Court ruling upheld a California law requiring employers to grant female employees up to four months of unpaid maternity leave and make reasonable efforts to reinstate them when they return to work. The decision and its implications are discussed. (MSE)

The Supreme Court decision upholding the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the tax-exempt status of a university with discriminatory policies is reviewed and interpreted as protecting the redress of past racial inequities in education against interference even from constitutionally guaranteed free religious exercise. (MJL)

Cites federal and Supreme Court rulings establishing the right of student journalists to publish their newspapers without censorship, without regulation, and with student fee support. (Author/RB)

The principle that seems to underlie the Court's school desegregation cases is that racial criteria may be used to make one person better off than another unless constitutionally-recognized expectations of the latter person are frustrated. Available from University of Cincinnati Law Review, Taft Hall, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH…

Examines the bases for and ramifications of the Supreme Court's decision to allow the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), on behalf of plaintiffs alleging discrimination in tenure decisions, to compel universities to disclose previously confidential peer review materials. (86 references) (MLF)

Reviews the efforts of Oklahoma to comply with the 1969 Supreme Court decision, "Adams v Richardson," which required states to desegregate traditionally White educational institutions. Concludes that Oklahoma has failed to increase the number of minority students in institutions of higher education but has institutionalized the…

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving three competing interests--the university, students, and commercial vendors. Examines lower court decisions in the case along with other jurisdictions that have specifically addressed the issues of commercial solicitation on campuses. (MLF)

The Supreme Court's landmark 1988 ruling that the "disparate impact" theory could be used to challenge as discriminatory an employer's reliance on the subjective evaluations of supervisors in hiring, promotion, and salary decisions is discussed. (MSE)

A federal judge's specifications for desegregating Mississippi's state colleges are excerpted from a recent court ruling. Issues addressed include the state's formula for financing colleges, whether the case should focus on students or institutions, the missions of historically black colleges and predominantly white institutions, and campus…

Discusses reasons why the "Lee v. Weisman" Supreme Court decision that held unconstitutional a Rhode Island school policy for prayer at a junior high school commencement does not extend to the university level. Concludes that an appropriately worded commencement prayer could pass the three-part "Lemon" threshold and not violate…

The Supreme Court will not consider an appeal of a lower-court ruling invalidating a black-only scholarship program at the University of Maryland at College Park. Reaction among colleges and universities is mixed; many are seeking ways for scholarship programs to favor minorities without excluding whites. (MSE)