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Discriminations

who? Discriminations is the joint production of John and Jessie Rosenberg. John is one of the world's older grad students, now completing a 30-year overdue dissertation at Stanford on discrimination. Jessie is a 16 year old junior at Bryn Mawr College majoring in physics.
\r\nwhat? John's focus, not surprisingly, will be on the theory and practice of discrimination, and how it is reported and analyzed.
\r\nJessie's will be discriminating thoughts on ... whatever catches her fancy or attracts her attention. (Email: jrosenbe@brynmawr.edu)

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Affirmative Action No Longer Needed?

Posted on February 24, 2009
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Law School Admissions: Not Colorblind, Not Blind-Friendly

Posted on February 23, 2009
Law school admissions, as readers of DISCRIMINATIONS know all too well, is not colorblind, but according to a new lawsuit it is completely blind to the needs of one group, the blind. Inside Higher Ed reports this morning: The National Federation of the Blind and a blind law school applicant sued the Law School Admission Council last week, charging that its Web site, essential to those preparing for the Law School Admission Test, is inaccessible to blind people, effectively blocking them from law school...

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Posted on February 23, 2009
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?Bending The Curve? Or Breaking The Bank?

Posted on February 22, 2009
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Alter-nate Reality

Posted on February 22, 2009
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Why Do We Need Affirmative Action? Ebonics!

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A Conscious Bias Against ?Unconscious Bias?

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?A Nation Of Cowards??

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What Are The Benefits (If Any) Of ?Diversity??

Posted on February 17, 2009
The always perceptive Peter Schmidt has an interview today in the Chronicle of Higher Education with James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard University, whose research interests are ?the political psychology of gender, group conflict, institutional discrimination and the evolutionary psychology of intergroup prejudice...

States To Be Stimulated, Whether They Need It Or Not

Posted on February 16, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning that Some States Get Stimulus Whether They Need or Want It. A pot of money in Congress's economic-stimulus bill is primarily intended to help buffer colleges and schools from state budget cuts. But some of the states slated to get the most money from that measure are not necessarily facing the greatest budget gaps or even proposing the sharpest reductions for higher education...

Politicizing Science And ...

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