Read a feature article from Issue No. 46 (Winter 2004/2005): |
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Blacks at the Nation's Top-Ranked Business Schools: Enrollments Are Down But Graduation Rates Are Almost Perfect --- Overall enrollments in the nation's business schools are down sharply. Black enrollments at many of the nation's top business schools have also declined. But there are notable exceptions. The good news is that almost all blacks who enroll in the nation's top business schools go on to graduate. The Black Student Mismatch Myth in Legal Education: The Systemic Flaws in Richard Sander's Affirmative Action Study --- Richard Sander's recent paper contends that racial preferences in admissions to law school will produce fewer rather than more practicing African-American attorneys. Sander also leaves the impression that black students at our major law schools are failing in ordinate numbers. Here two scholars dissect Sander's numbers and come up with entirely different results. | |
Other features from this issue: | |
FINDING A PROPER NAME TO CALL BLACK AMERICANS, Randall Kennedy AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABIES: BLACKS AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL IN THE 1970s, Patricia J. Williams SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT: HOW TWO BLACK MEN CHANGED THE HEART OF HARVARD IN 1941, Ted Gup HIGHER EDUCATION AND SLAVERY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, Robert H. Romer BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND W.E.B. DU BOIS: THE ORIGINS OF A BITTER INTELLECTUAL BATTLE, Mark Bauerlein YALE'S KINGMAN BREWSTER AND THE EARLY YEARS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, Geoffrey Kabaservice THE STORY OF JOHN JOHNSTON PARKER: THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF NEGRO POLITICAL POWER SINCE RECONSTRUCTION, Richard Kluger | |
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