Ward Connerly

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.  

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 ...  

Affirmative Action is the quota system, which has now moved into national political races. In the real workplace, affirmative action is an antiquated policy in need of revision. It grew out of the civil rights era of the late sixties and early seventies. Many states already have decided not to...  

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...  

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...  

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

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...  

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...  

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.  

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...  

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...  

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 ...  

I love Ward Connerly. Simple as that. Were he running for office on any party ticket, it would take some strong competition to tear my vote away. I'd even smile at a Ward Connerly/Bill "Fat Albert" Cosby ticket. Connerly is a powerhouse dedicated to tearing down the mentality of inequality in...  

Ward Connerly, the man who has led successful movements against racial preferences in California and Michigan, opines here on the state of civil rights and affirmative action today.  

A PDP chieftain, Dr. Rose Oko, has called on the Federal Government to implement the 30 per cent Affirmative action for women in Nigeria.