The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 4, 2012
By Kevin Carey
The activist judges of the United States Supreme Court, by choosing last month to take up Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, have decided to put affirmative action back on the national agenda. The fragile five-vote coalition that upheld race-based admissions policies at the University of Michigan less than a decade ago has been dispersed by retirement. Now the court's conservative majority seems poised—stare decisis be damned—to upend decades of established law and prohibit colleges from creating classes as they see fit.
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Showing posts with label discrimination against black students. Show all posts
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Suit says college singled out blacks
timesunion.com
December 2, 2009
SUNY Cobleskill officials call ex-dean's claims about budget "baseless"
By SCOTT WALDMAN, Staff writer
First published in print: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Editor's Note: To see a PDF of the lawsuit, click here. To comment on this story, visit the Schools blog.
A former dean of the State University of New York at Cobleskill has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the school, saying it discriminated against black students by keeping them in school for their tuition dollars when administrators knew they had no chance of earning a degree.
Thomas Hickey, who was stripped of his position as dean of liberal arts and sciences in July, filed the federal lawsuit on Nov. 23. In it, he claims the school has been admitting students it knows have no likelihood of graduating "for the express and admitted purpose of making budget," according to court records.
Hickey, who is a tenured professor, said the school targeted black students from the New York City region who did not meet the admissions standards of the college. Hickey said Anne Myers, the school's provost and vice president for academic affairs, developed the discriminatory policy, knew it was harmful to students and resisted the development of remedial programs that could have given the African-American students in question a chance to succeed.
In the suit, Hickey claims Myers expressed to the faculty that such students were "not cognitively and genetically prepared" to function in the college. Myers told him, "I do not care about these people," court records show.Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=872380&TextPage=1#ixzz0YjyLxBD8
December 2, 2009
SUNY Cobleskill officials call ex-dean's claims about budget "baseless"
By SCOTT WALDMAN, Staff writer
First published in print: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Editor's Note: To see a PDF of the lawsuit, click here. To comment on this story, visit the Schools blog.
A former dean of the State University of New York at Cobleskill has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the school, saying it discriminated against black students by keeping them in school for their tuition dollars when administrators knew they had no chance of earning a degree.
Thomas Hickey, who was stripped of his position as dean of liberal arts and sciences in July, filed the federal lawsuit on Nov. 23. In it, he claims the school has been admitting students it knows have no likelihood of graduating "for the express and admitted purpose of making budget," according to court records.
Hickey, who is a tenured professor, said the school targeted black students from the New York City region who did not meet the admissions standards of the college. Hickey said Anne Myers, the school's provost and vice president for academic affairs, developed the discriminatory policy, knew it was harmful to students and resisted the development of remedial programs that could have given the African-American students in question a chance to succeed.
In the suit, Hickey claims Myers expressed to the faculty that such students were "not cognitively and genetically prepared" to function in the college. Myers told him, "I do not care about these people," court records show.Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=872380&TextPage=1#ixzz0YjyLxBD8
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