Rollin'On the River: Race, Elite Schools, and the Equality Paradox

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 527-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professional School ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The People ◽  
Majority Students ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Lempert, Chambers, and Adams's superb new study of the careers of minority and white graduates of the University of Michigan Law School will come as welcome news to those who value diversity on this nation's college and professional school campuses. Alongside the Bowen-Box study (1998), to which the authors link their work, the Michigan data provide powerful evidence of the many benefits of affirmative action for both minority and majority students, as well as for a constituency that is often overlooked in the debate over affirmative action—namely, the people these aspiring professionals are intended to serve. More important, the authors' careful analysis reveals what many have long suspected. LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs “seem to have no relationship to success after law school, whether success is measured by earned income, career satisfaction, or service contributions” (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000, 401).

Confirmative Action

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 565-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lani Guinier
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Admission Policies ◽  
Conventional Test ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Lempert, Chambers, and Adams's study of the careers of three generations of students of color admitted to the University of Michigan Law School fills several important gaps in our knowledge about the consequences and implications of affirmative action protocols in law school admission. First, it provides empirical data for the argument that conventional test-based admission policies both mask and support deep flaws in the way we allocate opportunity and privilege.

scholarly journals Introduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Bruce H. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Ab Initio ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Law School ◽  
Early America ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

The articles in this issue are drawn from the papers delivered at the conference “Ab Initio: Law in Early America,” held in Philadelphia on June 16–17, 2010—the first conference in nearly fifteen years to focus on law in early America. It was sponsored by the Penn Legal History Consortium, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Society for Legal History, the University of Michigan Law School, and the University of Minnesota Law School, under the direction of Sarah Barringer Gordon, Martha S. Jones, William J. Novak, Daniel K. Richter, Richard J. Ross, and Barbara Y. Welke. For two days, fifteen mostly younger scholars presented their research to a packed house, with formal comments by senior scholars and vigorous discussion with the audience. That earlier conference, “The Many Legalities of Early America,” which convened in Williamsburg in 1996, had illustrated the shift from what was once trumpeted as the “new” legal history to something that never acquired a name, perhaps because it was less self-conscious in its methodology. “Ab Initio” offered the opportunity to ask how the field has changed in the years since.

Sustaining Racial Retrenchment

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-187
Author(s):  
Matthew Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Student Body ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The University ◽  
Corporate Model

This chapter describes how the University of Michigan (UM) leaders fought to preserve the new affirmative action policies. In this context, diversity—the idea that a racially heterogeneous student body improved education and prepared students for a multiracial democracy and global economy—became a tool to defend and sustain the new policies. Diversity helped sever the purpose of affirmative action from addressing the inequality rooted in cities, offered ambiguous goals that helped officials avoid accountability, and advanced administrators' interests in introducing a corporate model for the university. The diversity ideal, in other words, did not spark racial retrenchment. Instead, diversity became a tool to sustain the university's policies of retrenchment. Administrators still had to work to retain control over the meaning of diversity and ensure it supported the new policies. When diversity took hold among administrators, black students and their allies tried to employ diversity language to undermine the policies of retrenchment. Administrators ensured that never happened.

Julius Chambers Emerges

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Rosen ◽  
Joseph Mosnier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Court Order ◽  
North Carolina School ◽  
The Law ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

This chapter recounts Julius Chambers's achievements during college, graduate school, and law school. After graduating summa cum laude from North Carolina College for Negroes and obtaining his masters degree in history at the University of Michigan, Chambers was admitted to the University of North Carolina School of Law, desegregated the prior decade by federal court order over the forceful objections of University and North Carolina officials. Chambers, despite being ranked 112th among the 114 students admitted to the Class of 1962 and notwithstanding a generally unwelcoming, often hostile atmosphere at the Law School and on campus, became editor-in-chief of the Law Review and graduated first in his class. This chapter also details Chambers's marriage to Vivian Giles and the couple's decision to move to New York City when, after no North Carolina law firm would grant Chambers a job interview, Columbia Law School quickly stepped forward with the offer of a one-year fellowship.

“Where do I find that?”: creating a central shared documentation system for publishing staff using Google tools at the University of Michigan Library

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Alix Norton
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Central Area ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Documentation System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Robust Solution ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Library System ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Purpose – This aim of this report is to summarize how Google Sites can be used as an open-source, intuitive, and robust solution for designing an intranet system for a unique library department. Michigan Publishing is a department within the University of Michigan (U-M) campus library system that also includes a revenue-based operation as the U-M Press. The need for a central documentation system has become apparent to organize and streamline policies and procedures in this unique library department. Google Sites was chosen as a solution to compile departmental documentation and serve as a collaborative space for the many units within Michigan Publishing. Design/methodology/approach – One librarian and one graduate student intern worked on this project for 5-10 hours a week over the course of three months. Michigan Publishing managers created an inventory showing all existing informational resources in the department, and were then interviewed about these resources. An initial “landing page” was created for this Google-based site, and more comprehensive content has since been migrated from existing informational resources to this central site. Findings – A specific Google Sites Staff Intranet for Michigan Publishing has been an integral solution for providing a one-stop, central area for current internal resources. It also fosters a sense of departmental identity and community, since there are many separate units within the department, each with a different focus and place within the larger library system. This site provides an online forum for collaboration, communication and policy codification. Originality/value – This report summarizes how Google Sites can be used as an open-source, intuitive, and robust solution for designing an intranet system for a unique library department.

scholarly journals Accommodation and Satisfaction: Women and Men Lawyers and the Balance of Work and Family

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 251-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Work And Family ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Principal Responsibilities ◽  
The University

This study of graduates of the University of Michigan Law School from the late 1970s reports on the differing ways that women and men have responded to the conflicting claims of work and family. It finds that women with children who have entered the profession have indeed continued to bear the principal responsibilities for the care of children, but it also finds that these women, with all their burdens, are more satisfied with their careers and with the balance of their family and professional lives than other women and than men.

scholarly journals Trend Minat Mahasiswa Universitas dr. Soetomo dalam Berbelanja secara Online di Tokopedia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herdiega Reza Sanggara ◽  
Nevrettia Christantyawati
Keyword(s):  
Online Shopping ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Transaction Model ◽  
Marketing Model ◽  
The People ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Social Change Theory ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Modern Era

This study aims to find out what kind of tokopedia marketing model to attract students of Dr.Soetomo University, Surabaya, this study discusses online shop in tokopedia and online shopping patterns, and follow the modern era, a research approach that uses social change theory and consumption approach qualitative with descriptive method, data collecting technique is done by documentation, in-depth interview, observation, and search of field data. Informant researchers as many as 6 people taken from the most important person from each faculty of the university. Soetomo Surabaya and I take the average chairman of BEM and BEM representatives of each faculty and also actively follow the organization in the University of Dr Soetomo Surabaya.tujuan this research To find out how and what the marketing of tokopedia that can make the students of Universitas Dr. Soetomo can be interested in tokopedia. Based on what I studied from their students interested in tokopedia compared with other online shop, Tokopedia began to develop the transaction model that is by doing cooperation with merchant merchants like alfamart and indomart and many more. In addition to the many promos made tokopedia and merchant merchants are making their own advantages for the merchant entrepreneurs who have worked with tokopedia. Another reason that is also expressed by users of tokopedia especially university students. Soetomo Surabaya. According to some of them consider tokopedia as the only pioneer online shop. In addition, according to them tokopedia still put quality of the goods they sell. The conclusion of this study differences in traditional shopping patterns through barter and modern shopping patterns are very much different due to the development of the era and highly sophisticated technology in this era of the year, the increase in technology will make the people happy with how they shop very easy and affordable.Keywords: shopping needed, online shopping, tokopedia

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