Ward Connerly

When it comes to Ward Connerly, the California businessman on a state-by-state war against affirmative action, it's hard for many people on either side of the issue to be colorblind.  

OMAHA, Neb. - When it comes to Ward Connerly, the California businessman on a state-by-state war against affirmative action, it's hard for many people on either side of the issue to be colorblind.  

When it comes to Ward Connerly, the California businessman on a state-by-state war against affirmative action, it's hard for many people on either side of the issue to be color blind.  

A UI study released Tuesday contends that affirmative action doesn't result in any repercussions for students accepted to a university because of their ethnicity. "Anti-affirmative-action activists bring forth lots of arguments against the program, but stigma gets a lot of play" because many...  

Follow the Money behind Ward Connerly's corrupt anti-affirmative action campaign. UPDATE: Check out this website monitoring Ward Connerly's profiteering. From HuffPo: Ward Connerly Cashes In: Profiteering exposed by...The American Conservative! By Kristina Wilfore Ward Connerly, the...  

Ward Connerly says he believes affirmative action is an antiquated system that, rather than helping minorities, reinforces the perception they are second-class citizens who need help to succeed.  

When it comes to Ward Connerly, the California businessman on a state-by-state war against affirmative action, it's hard for many people on either side of the issue to be colorblind.  

When it comes to Ward Connerly, the California businessman on a state-by-state war against affirmative action, it's hard for many people on either side of the issue to be colorblind.  

Sat, Oct 4, 2008 (11:42 a.m.) When it comes to Ward Connerly, the California businessman on a state-by-state war against affirmative action, it's hard for many people on either side of the issue to be colorblind.  

A new TV ad was launched Wednesday in Colorado and Nebraska that exposes long time California lobbyist Ward Connerly and his divisive campaign to outlaw equal opportunity programs.  

Ward Connerly, the California lobbyist who has been running a divisive, multi-million dollar campaign to outlaw equal opportunity programs across the country, has been exposed...  

Since it is widely believed, at least in some circles, that affirmative action is threatened exclusively by Ward Connerly and his friends, the evil racist Republicans and the right-wing judges they appoint, it ...  

I believe it was from Ward Connerly that I first learned one of the unintended consequences of affirmative action programs: Individuals are set up to fail. Students who would have done just fine at, say, a good state school, are...  

A new television and online ad questions the motives of a California businessman who is pushing a ban on most types of affirmative action in Nebraska and Colorado.  

Universiti Teknologi Mara accepts only ethnic Malay students as part of an affirmative action policy that Malaysia adopted in 1971.  

A new lawsuit challenges thousands of signatures gathered to place an anti-affirmative action initiative on the Nebraska ballot.  

(AP) - A new lawsuit challenges thousands of signatures gathered to place an anti-affirmative action initiative on the Nebraska ballot. ...  

With Barack Obama officially nominated as the Democrats' Presidential nominee, is it time to re-think affirmative action? Ward Connerly, a long-time affirmative action opponent...  

"Between 1999 and 2005, Connerly's nonprofits, the American Civil Rights Institute and the American Civil Rights Coalition, didn't challenge a single affirmative-action law.  

A California professor studying affirmative action should have access to law school performance statistics. Americans have been debating the fairness and efficacy of racial preferences in college and...  

Opponents of an effort to ban racial and gender preferences in Nebraska announced their latest legal maneuver Friday — the same day Secretary of State John Gale was due to certify the Nov. 4 election ballot.  

Opposition to a researcher's request for test takers' data is about privacy, not affirmative action. The Times' Sept. 17 editorial, " Affirmative action and the bar exam ," characterizes a UCLA law professor's request for the...  

DENVER - (September 3, 2008) - Proponents and opponents of "anti-affirmative action" Amendment 46 and "the definition of personhood" Amendment 48 ballot issues will debate in the Colorado Decides debate series Monday, Sept. 8 at 8 p.m. on KBDI-Channel 12. The affirmative action amendment w...  

At moments like this, one has to wonder whether Barack Obama regrets his running-mate selection.  Going where Obama refused to go during his entire campaign, Joe Biden argued that voters in North Carolina should vote for Obama because of his skin pigmentation rather than his policies or...  

The Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action will have a new director by the end of September. Steve Michael, the vice provost for diversity, said the university has been looking actively to replace the former director, Willie Boston, after he passed away in the summer.  

THE gleaming university campus on a hill in the Malaysian city of Shah Alam is seen by some Malaysians as symbolising much that is wrong in this Southeast Asian Muslim country.  

Wow, I haven't even seen the organized Right attacking Obama's academic history. Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate Wayne Allyn Root doubts that Obama did well at Columbia University. He wants to see Obama's grades. Root believes Obama only managed to get...  

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The gleaming university campus on a hill in the Malaysian city of Shah Alam is seen by some Malaysians as symbolising much that is wrong in this Southeast Asian Muslim country. Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM ...  

AfricanLiberty.org, a libertarian website based in Ghana, reports on the east-central African country: "African media was replete with news of [w]omen gaining political recognition in the recent parliamentary elections in Rwanda.We picked up a few insights. Rwandan women have set a new record in...  

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The gleaming university campus on a hill in the Malaysian city of Shah Alam is seen by some Malaysians as symbolising much that is wrong in this Southeast Asian Muslim country.  

Colorado voters will have only one affirmative-action-related ballot measure to decide upon this November.  

The general election is 45 days away. While most of the attention has been given to the presidential candidates, the public may not be aware of an initiative banning affirmative action in Nebraska.  

My new podcast interview with Ward Connerly is here. We recorded it last Thursday, just hours before Barack Obama's convention speech -- you know the one, in which Obama accepted the Democratic nomination with 'great humilty' at a huge football stadium full of adoring fans -- and some of the...  

Username: I'll concede that the text of some initiatives may be excessively long, but many aren't; those should be included in at least one article written about them. Both papers are failing to abide by what I regard as their journalistic responsibilities in several different regards, and...  

If you believe that things have improved so much since the sixties and seventies with regard to equal opportunity in America, that affirmative action is not necessary any more, then you never believed it was necessary back then. Only in government hiring has equal opportunity manifested progress...  

AN EMPLOYER cannot discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of race if the employer did not have an affirmative action policy or plan in place, according to a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment on Wednesday.  

First in a series of stories focusing on state ballot measures to be decided by Colorado voters on Nov.  

ANC resident Jacob Zuma has declined to pander to minority concerns about affirmative action, saying no sunset clause is on the cards.  

ANC president Jacob Zuma has declined to pander to minority concerns about affirmative action, saying no sunset clause is on the cards.  

Lancaster District Judge Steven Burns ruled in favor of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln student seeking to amend the language in the proposed race and gender affirmative action initiative Aug. 28. Jeff Hall, a senior learning and teaching education major and Daily Nebraskan opinion columnist...  

Last week at the Democratic National Convention, Matt Welch and Tim Cavanaugh interviewed Libertarian vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root, who offered the following challenge to his former Columbia University classmate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.): "I'll put a million dollars cash on the...  

In New York state, under an Obama presidency, with names like former NYC mayor David Dinkins, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Gov. David Paterson, former State ...  

Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Peter Schmidt, author of "Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action," will be on my SignOnRadio.com show at 11 a.m. Please listen in. We'll discuss the current...  

Very interesting editorial in the LAT. The opening: Americans have been debating the fairness and efficacy of racial preferences in college and graduate school admissions for more than 30 years. Now a UCLA professor is seeking to test his hypothesis that affirmative action programs actually hurt...  

Richard Sander (pictured), a UCLA law prof who, according to his bio, studies “social and economic inequality,” hopes to prove the so-called “mismatch” theory of affirmative action, at least as it applies to law. The theory: that affirmative action programs hurt the career prospects of minority...  

"Barack Obama at Harvard, where he was the first black president of The Harvard Law Review." Source of caption and photo: online version of the NYT article quoted and cited below.  

Civil rights, equal opportunity and preferential treatment collide in Amendment 46, the first statewide issue on the crowded November ballot.  

Civil rights, equal opportunity and preferential treatment collide in Amendment 46, the first statewide issue on the crowded November ballot.  

This article provides insight into how Governor Palin is being marginalized/dismissed by pro-Obama media. I strongly disagree with the bizarre assessment that there is something racist about picking Palin. And given her executive record, and expert knowledge in International Energy, I don't...  

The University of Colorado's law school will hold a debate tonight on affirmative action -- a hot-button issue as Colorado voters will decide in November whether to make it illegal to use race or gender preferences in college admissions and government hiring.  

This is a Public Post! September 17, 2008 Barack Obama and White Privilege By John Stossel Complaints about racism still dominate media discussion of the disparity between black and white success. Comedian Chris Rock tells white audiences, "None of ya would change places with me! And I'm rich...  

LINCOLN, Neb. (UWIRE) - A district judge ruled last month in favor of a UNL student seeking to amend the language in the proposed race and gender affirmative action initiative, which will put the public to vote on a possible decision to end affirmative action.  

During this same briefing, scholars repudiated the praise historically Black colleges and other minority-serving institutions are enjoying for graduating a ...  

NELSON Mandela Bay residents expressed mixed feelings yesterday in a poll on whether affirmative action worked in South Africa.  

Let's talk about this. What do you all think of the policy of affirmative action? Is it a partisan issue? Does it help, or does it hinder and breed resentment?  

Ward Connerly was trout fishing on the Snake River in Idaho last week when opponents of the Arizona Civil Rights initiative stood in the heat to announce a second lawsuit intended to keep Connerly’s initiative off the ballot. “I caught one ...  

Government agencies in Colorado couldn't consider race or gender in most hiring, contracting or school admissions if Amendment 46 passes.  

Jody Kollapen, the chairperson of South Africa Human Rights Commission, says affirmative action is not a punishment to young white South Africans.  

Affirmative Action, a topic under debate in several states and courts, will be addressed today in a lecture by Michigan law expert Paul Finkelman.  

I am writing specifically in opposition to The CW News Editor Dave Folka*'s Friday column titled a* Affirmative action and why I hate it.a* I am saddened when I read or hear people on this accord, reacting so ...  

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action.  

CLA Law professor Richard Sander has spent some 19 years trying to determine whether or not affirmative action benefits African-American law students.  

The choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate exposes Republican hypocrisy regarding affirmative action All comments Lola Adesioye guardian.co.uk , Republicans have always been hugely critical of ...  

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action.  

UCLA professor wants to use California bar exam data to evaluate the effects of affirmative action. His past research has drawn controversy, and state bar officials say they won't hand over the data. In his 19 years as a law professor at UCLA, Richard Sander has pondered a nagging question...  

News and awesomeness from around the Colorogosphere ... Affirmative action cuts: On the heels of the news that Amendment 46 opponents have pulled their lawsuit against the initiative's backers, the Vote No on ...  

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman says the institution will continue to push for diversity, regardless of this fall's vote on a ballot measure that would ban most types of affirmative ...  

Even if Nebraskans approve a constitutional amendment that would ban many state affirmative action programs, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will continue to seek color on campus, Chancellor Harvey Perlman ...  

The Secretary of State's office announced Wednesday that Initiative 82, a measure that would have safeguarded affirmative action policies in Colorado, doesn't have enough signatures to make the ballot.  

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman says the institution will continue to push for diversity, regardless of this fall’s vote on a ballot measure that would ban most types of affirmative action.  

By PETER SCHMIDT The US Commission on Civil Rights angered advocates of affirmative action last week by seeking to subject the race-conscious admissions ...  

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday, addressing leaders of historically black colleges, that affirmative action "has become this mantra and there almost has become this secular religiosity about it. I think it almost trumps thinking."  

Is U.C.L.A. Illegally Using Race-Based Affirmative Action in Admissions? Steven D. Levitt's friend and co-author, Tim Groseclose , a professor of political science at U.C.L.A., thinks so: Groseclose was a ...