This manual is designed for the equity professional who wishes to increase the participation of women and minority groups in leadership roles in athletics. The model was developed by Educators for Athletic Equity (EAE) and provides a data and knowledge base necessary for implementing a successful athletic equity project. The specific goals…

Chapter 16 of a book on school law provides a legal overview of employment discrimination on the basis of race. A litany of cases has been adjudicated or are currently in litigation. Selected cases are reviewed briefly and arguments for and against the affirmative action guidelines are presented. The main area of complaint about the guidelines is…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether affirmative action plans for public schools and institutions of higher education can be justified under the compelling interest clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Part 1 of the paper provides an historical as well as legal chronology of affirmative action in the U.S. Part 2 takes an analytical look…

This dissertation investigated six indications of change regarding affirmative action efforts on the University of Texas at Austin campus since December, 1973. These indications of change were recorded in university personnel documents, EEO/AA Office records, and the results of a questionnaire submitted to the faculty and administrators of the…

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The process of collective bargaining needs the assistance of congressional legislation in order to respond successfully to equal employment opportunity problems. A proposal to develop an Affirmative Action Adjustment Assistant Act is presented as a possible solution. (EC)

Reviews Thomas Sowell's book, Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality. Argues that Sowell, a critic of affirmative action, rejects the central premises of the civil rights vision and believes that free market forces, demographic trends, culture, and individual choice account for existing race and sex-based statistical disparity. (SA)

Wisdom suggests that instead of correcting the injustices of yesterday by creating the new injustices of today, it is better to recognize a statute of limitations on accountability for our inhumanity to ourselves in the distant past. (Author)

The National Art Education Association (NAEA) has failed to recognize the talents, skills, and aspirations of Afro-American art educators. There needs to be greater participation of ethnic minorities in the NAEA. (RM)

The state of Black-Jewish relations in the United States is far healthier, despite some differences of opinion, than the popular perception suggests. The issues that are usually cited as constituting the breakdown in harmonious Jewish-Black relations are discussed. (RM)

This update reviews affirmative action cases in higher education in the context of the Supreme Court's recent decision to hear the Michigan affirmative action cases. The Supreme Court's decision on the Michigan cases will be the first Supreme Court opinion on affirmative action in higher education since "Bakke." Individual federal circuits and…

Analyzes the "Weber" case and speculates about the impact the Supreme Court ruling may have on personnel and industrial relations practitioners. Available from the Employee Relations Law Journal, Executive Enterprises Publications Co., Inc., 33 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023; $48.00/year. (Author/IRT)

Uses a question-and-answer format to amplify the "Weber" decision and explain how the case affects an employer. Is particularly concerned with the role of quotas in affirmative action plans. (IRT)