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• Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education

  - 2005-07-01

  Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education Charles William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, Eugene A. Tobin, University of Virginia, 2005; 472 pp; $27.95 William Bowen, former president of Princeton University (N.J.) follows his 1998 analysis of affirmative action, The Shape of the River, with this new title, co-authored...

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• UVA Officials Dispute Web Site's Admissions Predictor - conservative think tank accuses University of Virginia of favoring minority students - Brief Article

  - 2000-05-25

  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A think tank that has criticized the University of Virginia for favoring Black applicants over Whites has posted an "admissions predictor" on its Web site that claims to show an applicant's odds of getting into the school based on various factors, including race. However, university officials...

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• Anti-Affirmative Action Group Takes Exception to University of Virginia Report - Brief Article

  - 2000-01-06

  RICHMOND, Va. -- When a report issued last January by an anti-affirmative action group criticized the University of Virginia's admissions policies, the school defended itself by saying the report's numbers didn't add up. So the Center for Equal Opportunity compiled a new study addressing the criticism by accounting for...

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• Can the Dream Be Saved?

  - 1999-10-28

  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors announced earlier this month that race will continue to be considered in the school's admissions process. The board also said it supports President John T. Casteen III's decision several months ago to end the use of a point system...

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• Running for Cover

  - 1999-10-14

  Fear and Paranoia Surrounding Affirmative Action Lawsuits Unjustified, Experts Say Two years ago, University of North Carolina System President Dr. Molly Broad, fresh from the California State System, requested a complete review of the use of race in the admissions policies of schools in the state system. Then...

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• Prince John Magruder: His Life and Campaigns. (book reviews)

  - 1997-06-01

  Perhaps the most charming drunk in a war with thousands of commissioned alcoholics, John Bankhead Magruder has at last found a biographer worthy of him. This splendid, illustrated, full-length study describes his childhood and his education at the University of Virginia and West Point; his unremarkable...

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