This statement, an expansion and elaboration of the principles of racial and gender equity espoused by the AAUP for more than fifty years, was approved by the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the Committee on Gender and Sexuality in the Academic Profession, the Committee on Historically Black Institutions and Scholars of…

This book provides a comprehensive description of the federal government's relationship with higher education and how that relationship became so expansive and indispensable over time. Drawing from constitutional law, social science research, federal policy documents, and original interviews with key policy insiders, the author explores the U.S.…

This article addresses the dilemmas emerging from efforts to integrate human rights values within a peace education programme being carried out in a conflict situation. Although the article is largely theoretical, it is grounded in the author's reflections on a series of teacher workshops and his overall experiences conducting ethnographic…

Excerpts from speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., are reprinted. Topics discussed include discrimination, the South, education, nonviolent resistance, poverty, economic opportunity, and world peace. (LH)

This document analyzes different approaches to the goal of equal educational opportunity and discusses the judicial role in achieving it. One approach argues that equal dollars or equal facilities and services must be provided to each pupil. Some people have contended that racially segregated schools deprive minority students of an equal…

The Office of Civil Rights is faced with a myriad of problems concerning discrimination on college campuses. The problems range from cases concerning racial discrimination to sex discrimination in both student body and faculty makeup. Therefore, a series of affirmative action plans have been stipulated for those colleges and universities who are…

Article discusses the Serrano v. Priest case and feels that unequal funding of school districts can not be justified by appeal to the unequal wealth of the communities in which they are located. (Author/GB)

The Department of Education's (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces several statutes that protect the rights of beneficiaries in programs or activities receiving financial assistance from ED. An outline of protocols regarding these requirements is provided in this brochure. It describes the notice of nondiscrimination requirements, such as…

The premature acceptance and application of the research results of the study of Equality of Educational Opportunity may go down in educational history as a costly error. (Author)

Discusses several steps necessary to obtaining equal educational opportunities. These include placing better teaching staffs in urban schools, providing extensive field work for student teachers interested in teaching minority children, reevaluating the current curriculum for occurrences of racism and devising extracurricular activities for…

This article discusses the possible future need for a law, Title X, to guarantee equal opportunity to nonathletes. (RC)

More comments on the regulations covering equal treatment of the sexes under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. (Author)

This article provides a section-by-section analysis of Title IX and suggests a legal framework in which to evaluate separate or different treatment of the sexes in the activities to which it applies. (Author)

This report by the Illinois Commission on the Status of Women studied such subjects as employment practices and policies; Illinois labor laws; the family and the employed woman; nondiscriminatory education; and expanded programs to help women as wives, mothers and workers. Its recommendations briefly include: (1) Illinois ratification of the Equal…

This paper focuses on Title IX, a part of the Federal Education Amendments of 1972, and its effect upon human rights in school sport. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section reviews the purpose of Title IX and the historical developments which led to its establishment. It states that Title IX was enacted to eliminate sexual…