A study of eight school districts in each of six states gathered descriptive data about public school administrators employed in 1980. This article summarizes the composite data on administrator characteristics, length of service, and results of affirmative action. Strategies for providing additional opportunities for women and minorities are…

Senator Orrin Hatch argues that affirmative action is illegal, immoral, and won't work. (IRT)

In deciding that a person with a serious hearing handicap could be denied entry into a nursing program, the Supreme Court held that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 does not require affirmative action but imposes the lesser obligation that institutions avoid discrimination against handicapped persons. (Author/IRT)

Examines the general status of Blacks in American graduate education and in political science and the South in particular. Available from The Journal of Politics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; $5.00 per issue. (Author/IRT)

The 1973 Act, which purports to promote employment opportunities for the handicapped, is reviewed and the enforcement procedure is described. The right of an individually aggrieved handicapped person to sue in Federal court ("private cause of action") is discussed in terms of the 1978 amendment. (EB)

Although the national Black unemployment rate has been improving, it has not matched gains made by the White population, and in metropolitan areas the Black unemployment rate is actually rising. Trends among the White population cannot be used to justify discontinuance of programs aimed at ameliorating unemployment among Blacks. (Author/RLV)

The "Weber" decision lacks the clarity, coherence, and convincing power appropriate for the work of the Supreme Court. These qualities are often the first casualties of judicial forays into the legislative thicket. Available from American Enterprise Institute, 1150 17th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036; sc $2.50. (Author/IRT)

Noting that government agencies can better measure a company's compliance with affirmative action policies if the company uses predictive techniques, two such techniques--the flow model and the optimizing--are described and briefly compared. (SH)

Investigated the racial view of students from a predominantly white, all-male midwestern U.S. high school. Survey data indicated that students lacked proper understanding of affirmative action (AA). Over 40 percent lacked knowledge altogether, 30 percent opposed AA in job hiring and promotion, and 65 percent supported AA as an academic scholarship…

Discusses how students and administrators at Virginia Tech are angry that the governing board eliminated affirmative action and made other important decisions without consultation. (EV)

Reviews major court decisions that have challenged the context for diversity and affirmative action initiatives in higher education, focusing on the notion of individual merit, historical court decisions, and higher education as contested terrain. Asserts that discussions of affirmative action are uncomfortable because they identify the…

Discusses three broad theoretical varieties of racial inequality (the deficiency theory, bias theory, and structural discrimination theory), suggesting that three basic strategies exist to remedy racial inequality: the civil rights strategy (prohibiting discrimination and enforcing laws), the poverty approach (helping the poor out of poverty), and…

Describes how members of minority groups view the affirmative action cases at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on the basis of the difficulty they have had in gaining access to higher education. (EV)

Asserting that the end of affirmative action at the University of California Berkeley Law School crushes the aspirations of minorities and prevents whites from appreciating why diversity is so important, a Boalt graduate and immigration lawyer explains why everyone loses when affirmative action is cast aside. (EV)

This article suggests that previous bans on race-based affirmative action have done serious damage to black enrollments at the U.S.'s "flagship" public universities. In some cases, black enrollments have rebounded somewhat, but enrollments are still far below the level that prevailed prior to the bans. Only Texas, with its 10 Percent…