Supreme Court Takes One Affirmative Action Step Forward After Many Steps Back
Supreme Court Takes One Affirmative Action Step Forward After Many Steps Back
*Last week’s Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action was great, but it’s a first step on a long road back. What more can be done? VL By Al Kauffman, NewsTaco […]
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds UT-Austin’s Affirmative Action System
*There was a good news and not so good news today from the U.S. Supreme Court. This was the good news, and this is a good explanation of what happened. […]
Affirmative Action at UT and Beyond at Stake in Court Case
*Today’s big case at the Supreme Court is the Evenwel v Abbott suit, where the one-man, one-vote concept is at stake. Tomorrow won’t be any less important. The issue of […]
UT Austin Rethinks Awards Process After Latino Award To George P. Bush Sparks Uproar
*The University of Texas MALS program isn’t taking back the award they gave to George P. Bush, but they are saying it was a “forward choice” and they’re rethinking the […]
Detainees Fight for Freedom of Speech
*The main issue in this story is whether the undocumented have legal standing to seek protection under the First Amendment. Critics argue that if the Federal Government prevails it will, […]
U.T. at Austin Considering Increasing Funds for Latino Studies After Border Patrol-Themed Party Protests
*Winston Churchill is credited with saying “never let a good crisis go to waste.” That’s probably what the folks at the University of Texas’ Latino Community Affairs had in mind. […]
UT students call for Texas Fiji chapter to be punished
*A follow up to yesterday’s story about a college fraternity “border patrol” party at the University of Texas at Austin. U.T. students have signed a petition demanding the frat be punished. […]
What The University of Texas Affirmative Action Case Is Really About
By Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as […]
TX Legislators Would Cut Ethnic Studies in College Requirements
By Jacquellena Carrero, NBCLatino Students at public universities in Texas may no longer be able to take courses focusing on racial, ethnic or gender history to fulfill their core requirements for […]
UT Professor: Blacks & Latinos Can’t Compete with Whites
By Cord Jefferson, Gawker [Photo courtesy utexas.edu] Click on picture to read story.
