Affirmative Action Under Siege: What's at Stake for our Campuses, Careers & Communities? [VHS]
120 minutes, 1995
Description: A tape of an October 1995 Black Issues in Higher Education videoconference, this program analyzes the affirmative action debate, including the California Civil Rights Initiative and its potential impact on admissions and hiring practices in higher education.

Creative Ways of Finding & Keeping Faculty & Administration of Color [VHS]
120 minutes, 1994
Description: Over the years many colleges and universities have tried to locate and keep faculty and administrators of color by adhering to many of the "do's and don'ts" of engineering a successful minority recruitment effort. This Black Issues in Higher Education videoconference provides a comprehensive and candid presentation of what has worked, what has not, and why. The major program segments include the candidate pool, recruitment, and retention

Justice For All [VHS]
58 minutes, 1986
Description: During the Reagan years, Attorney General Edward Meese III , led the United States Justice Department in executing the President's conservative ideology. Under the administration, Civil Rights Chief Bradford Reynolds began to dismantle affirmative action programs, abandoning the department's former priority of aiding historically under-represented minorities, and instead of focusing on the interests of the white male constituency. As affirmative action was attacked on the grounds of "reverse discrimination," Reynolds himself came under fire for many of his decisions. This PBS documentary illustrates the tension any U.S Justice Department faces as it walks the fine line between ideology and equal enforcement of the law, and what can happen when ideology prevails.

Making A Difference: Teaching for Black Student Retention [VHS]
20 minutes, 1990
Description: Developed for use in seminars with faculty and teaching assistants, this video focuses on the role that teaching plays in the retention of black students. Black students and alumni from Ohio State University discuss the barriers that they encounter, such as feelings of isolation and alienation, stereotyping, expectations of failure, biased textbooks, and narrow curriculum and research options. The students, staff and administration make suggestions for change, such as the establishment of mentoring relationships, diversification of curriculum content, and student acknowledgement outside of class. Finally, the faculty and members of the administration discuss why teaching for black student retention should be a priority. Although developed for use specifically for the Ohio State University instructional staff, the video can be used in other settings to raise issues about how teaching impacts black student success and what faculty and teaching assistants can do to improve retention of black students.

Minorities in the Classroom [VHS]
26 minutes, 1986
Description: This video developed by thee Department of Human Relations at Michigan State University, encourages faculty members to examine student-teacher relationships as well as the climate they promote in the classroom. Eight vignettes ( based on actual situations reported by minority students in college classrooms and academic advising situations) are used for illustrative purposes. The video is designed and to assist faculty and staff members in fostering positive approaches to teaching all students in a discrimination-free environment.

Struggles in Steel: The fight for Equal Opportunity [VHS]
58 minutes, 1996
Description: Prior to government intervention, African-Americans were confined to the most backbreaking, dangerous, and low-paid work. Struggles in Steel, documents the shameful history of discrimination against black workers and one heroic campaign where the workers won equality on the job. Using 70 black steel workers, the video retraces a century of black industrial history- the use of blacks as strike-breakers against the all-white union during the 1892 Homestead Strike, the Great Migration of field workers to the North in World War 1, the racial divisions between workers during the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and the ultimate success of the CIO organizing drives of the 1930's.
When black veterans returned to the mills after World War II, they found they were still locked into the least desirable jobs. They had no rights to bid on better-paying, higher-skilled positions such as supervisor, millwright, or even painter. The steelworkers also recount how, after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, they secretly documented instances of discrimination and in 1974 finally won an agreement compelling the company and the union to set hiring and promotion goals for women and minorities, but their hard-won prosperity would be brief. In a few short years the mills began shutting down and hope swung to despair. The film ends with black industrial workers again standing on the outside of the economy, writing for new remedies to decades of discrimination.

Under Scrutiny: Affirmative Action Debate [VHS]
30 minutes, 1995
Description: Produced in 1995, this program covers a current attacks against affirmative action and features arguments both for and against the continuation of affirmative programs