Explores the issue of whether minority scholarships are illegal under federal statutes or the Constitution. Concludes that, according to Title VI and Supreme Court decisions, minority scholarships would be legal when offered by private schools and by public schools that could meet the court's requirements. (112 references) (MLF)

A review of developments on the national and state level, including federal court litigation, the activities of the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice, rules barring sex discrimination in the nation's schools and colleges, the published Internal Revenue Service proposed guidelines on private school non-discrimination and…

Discusses developments on both a national and state-by-state basis, including Supreme Court litigation, recent federal legislation, federal agency regulations, employment opportunities, urban migration patterns, affirmative action suits, the status of Mexican American students at the University of California, integration plans, and others. (JM)

Judicial decisions resulting from suits brought under provisions of the United States Constitution and the various civil rights statutes continue to have a significant impact on personnel administration. The 1972 amendments of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which brought State and local governments within the scope of Title VII, have…

A review of developments on the national and state level, including statements by President Ford, national polls on school integration of the public at large as well as of secondary school students, women in the professions, enrollment at womens' colleges, catholic education in the black community, a survey of Chicago public school principals, and…

A Supreme Court ruling last March, "Seminole Tribe of Florida vs. State of Florida," sharply restricted Congress' ability to override a state's immunity to federal lawsuits under the 11th Amendment. State institutions have already used the decision to fend off litigation on a variety of issues, including age discrimination, patents and…

This article presents an interview with Jonathan Kozol. Topics discussed include: (1) On the root causes of school resegregation; (2) On strategies for solving the problem; (3) On guaranteeing education for all; (4) On forcing opponents of integration into the open; (5) On mechanisms for promoting integration; (6) On scripted curricula in…

The article traces the impact of Title Seven of the Civil Rights Act on equal employment consent decrees and court decisions dealing with the seniority arrangement in the steel industry. (MW)

In this speech the question of whether the federal government is holding itself to the same civil rights standards it enforces in the private and public sector is addressed. Problem areas upon which the Carter administration is focusing are examined. These areas include the failure to eliminate discrimination against federal employees, the failure…

Explains how unequal salary schedules for Black and White teachers with similar qualifications were eliminated in public schools. Reviews pertinent federal court cases and legal arguments, describes how adopted salary schedules (in contrast to merit-based salary schedules) affected court decisions, and discusses the effects of the court decisions.…

The nature of legal argument, including judicial decisions, puts severe limits on the educational advances that can be expected by Black Americans through litigation. The Brown decision, for example, has been a mixed blessing, and the Bakke case shows that the Court is unwilling to support a class-based remedy for discrimination. (KH)

It is suggested that the Bakke case settles so little it is virtually useless as a precedent. Its single holding is that it put Bakke in medical school; without any consistent majority rationale there is no law of the case. Available from Univ. of Oregon, School of Law, Eugene, OR 97403. (MSE)

The lower court findings and 1995 Supreme Court decision in Podberesky versus Kerwin, concerning the legality of race-exclusive scholarships, is reviewed and its implications on race-based financial aid awards are examined. Issues discussed include current Department of Education guidelines in this context, meeting institutional mandates to…

A federal court decision, Podberesky vs. Kirwin, in which a University of Maryland scholarship program targeting African American students was found to be racially discriminatory is a cause for concern because of heightened federal pressure to desegregate colleges and because of its possible implications for other state universities. (MSE)

A federal appeals court ordered new trials on whether curriculum at Alabama's predominantly white colleges discriminates against blacks by lacking content on black thought and history, and whether much of the state land-grant program should be shifted from Auburn University to Alabama A&M, a historically black institution. (MSE)