The article addresses ways to achieve parity for women in academe including increasing the number of women achieving doctorates, encouraging the participation by women in disciplines in which they are underrepresented, recognizing effects of supply and demand on faculty recruitment, developing specific programs to encourage talented female…

Social pathologies at the root of many racial disparities in achievement are serious and widespread, but at least frank debate on racial issues is emerging. Contemporary racial issues, including white backlash, are explored; and it is suggested that the eventual emergence of a multiracial consensus for cooperation is possible. (SLD)

The ban on affirmative action in college and university admissions has stimulated law schools to recruit underrepresented minorities more aggressively, in some cases producing more competition for historically black institutions. Declines in law school minority enrollments are also attributed to student preferences for other areas of study, such…

Collection of articles examines such issues as the progress of black faculty at leading U.S. liberal arts colleges; black scholars in the press; Marshall scholarships for African American college students; white Congressmen endorsing reparations for slavery; how black voters can use political muscle to protect higher education opportunities; and…

Finds strong evidence that race and ethnicity are associated with lower levels of employment among journalism and mass communication graduates. Notes these discrepancies in success in the job market are explainable by factors normally associated with hiring, such as type of training, type of institution offering the training, or qualifications…

Data from the Current Population Survey of the U.S. Census show that black educational attainment, net of family background, became higher than that of whites in the 1950s, too early to be attributable to affirmative action. Other possible explanations, including a favorable orientation toward education in the African-American community are…

There are currently 105 African-American presidents of traditionally white colleges and universities, a declining number. Most black presidents head two-year institutions; only 36 head four-year schools. Most presidents of historically black institutions are African Americans. Some attribute the decline to the affirmative action debate. However,…

Data from the 1993 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System are used to demonstrate that there is a strong positive relationship between the representation of black undergraduate students and the representation of black faculty members at institutions of higher education in the United States. Implications for the debate over affirmative…

Presents a collection of articles on the black experience in postsecondary education, including issues regarding black achievement, black faculty, enrollment, politics and racism, black status in Ivy League schools, and affirmative action. The black experience at several specific colleges, including Wharton, UCLA, Kean College, Howard College, and…

A study examined the college and later-life experiences of over 35,000 students, almost 3000 of whom were black, entering 28 selective colleges in 1976 and 1989. Results suggest that if universities were flatly prohibited from considering race in admissions, over half the black students in selective colleges today would have been rejected.…

A recent Ford Foundation national survey found that 71% of Americans think diversity education does more to bring Americans together than drive them apart. Two-thirds felt colleges and universities should take explicit steps to ensure student body diversity; three-fourths want to ensure faculty diversity. Only 38% feel diversity is an excuse to…

In the current anti-affirmative action climate, colleges should review their admissions policies and redouble their efforts to admit a diverse class. Colleges have a right to determine what percentage of the students will be admitted automatically. Admissions officers violate the law only when they use race as a proxy for other legitimate…

To create beneficial learning environments, it is necessary to make thoughtful, purposeful decisions about how diversity adds to the educational missions of universities, first defining why race matters at all. The paper examines misconceptions that fuel the momentum against affirmative action, discusses the benefits of diversity, and explains how…

Investigated the experiences of minority students with their white peers on predominantly white campuses. Focus groups revealed how white students' purported color-blindness regarding race often blinded them to their own color conscious behavior and the subsequent stereotyping effects. Participants' discussions examined stereotyping, assimilation,…

Dr. Wallace Loh still remembers the sting of hearing his high school teachers in Peru call him "el chino"--Spanish for "Chinese boy." Why didn't they simply use his name? After all, they did so with his classmates. They typically did not single out students of other foreign nationalities, such as calling the German student…