A study of the fairness and utility of race-conscious academic support services offered at law schools finds that law schools should increase academic support for nontraditional students. A University of Oregon program is used to illustrate the potential for program success. (MSE)

The Dade County, Florida, $1.5 billion school construction and renovation project provides an opportunity to promote social change. By 1995 the school board wants to increase to 52 percent the share of construction, purchasing, and special services contracts awarded to businesses owned by minorities and women. (MLF)

The task of building the future professoriate can be facilitated by giving attention to important dimensions of affirmative action developed since 1972. Institutional researchers can help satisfy legal mandates on affirmative action and fulfill ethical and moral commitments to equity while meeting the unique needs of their institutions.…

Institutions that succeed at recruiting minority faculty with doctorates are more resourceful than others, using a variety of strategies to recruit, encourage, and retain a diverse faculty. Colleges and universities must become more hospitable to minorities so faculties can complement the increasingly minority student bodies. (MSE)

A study concerned with affirmative action in public junior and community colleges is described. Four areas were addressed: support for affirmative action; history of complaints, investigations, compliance reviews, and litigation; administration of affirmative action regulations; and public policy issues. (MLW)

Discusses recent Supreme Court decisions that suggest policies of preferential admissions in higher education are safe, at least in the moderate form established in the Bakke case. The article examines the meaning of the Bakke case, reviews the benefits of diversity to higher education, and speculates about the survivability of the Bakke decision…

Discussion of the effects of cultural diversity on academic libraries and library and information science education examines the impact of demographics on affirmative action recruitment in business and higher education; effects of demographic trends on library and information science professions; faculty attitudes; and library and information…

Federal constitutional, statutory, and case law dealing with minority-targeted scholarships and admissions are reviewed. Applicable laws and standards, standing, admission and scholarship procedures, affirmative action, and holistic assessments are discussed. It is concluded that many existing affirmative action programs may violate the Fourteenth…

This paper argues that incorporation of relevant feminist and critical race literature into legal education can help students question their own assumptions about society and the law, creating links between abstract legal principles and concrete consequences for specific groups of employees. Implications for affirmative action are also examined.…

The University of California's decision to end some racial preferences used in admissions and hiring is seen by some as an admission of long-term violations of federal court rulings, and as an effort to stem a voter revolt against affirmative action. The regents' vote on the policy is expected to be close. (MSE)

In the wake of the University of California's decision not to continue an affirmative action policy in admissions and hiring, the University system claims it will continue to encourage diversity without "using race, ethnicity, or gender" and is investigating ways to accomplish this. Other institutions are looking at how the policy change…

Reviews an unresolved case involving the termination of Sharon Taxman, a white business education teacher at Piscatawny (New Jersey) High School, as a reduction-in-force measure. An African American teacher with equal seniority was retained, based on the board's commitment to affirmative action. Taxman's 1993 suit was upheld, but a circuit court…

Explores attitudes of black Americans, including middle class black Americans, toward policies designed to ameliorate racial disadvantages. Data from two omnibus national opinion surveys enable the appraisal of black opinions about a variety of race-targeted policies. In each policy area, blacks are more favorable than whites toward government…

A study found that interviewers of medical school applicants (n=471) were influenced in their ratings of applicants' noncognitive attributes by grade point average and Medical College Admission Test scores, when available, and by gender and race in accordance with affirmative action goals. Only moderate reliability across interviewers was found.…

Admissions offices of colleges trying to increase undergraduate student diversity are being criticized for failing to explain their affirmative action policies to prospective students and their parents, resulting in a backlash against affirmative action as white students fear reverse discrimination. (DB)