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The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it will take up the question of whether public universities can be sued in federal court under the American Disabilities Act. The court will hear a case involving a University of Alabama employee who charged that her supervisors had discriminated against her after she developed cancer. The question before the court will be whether the 1990 federal disability law infringes upon states’ rights and is therefore unconstitutional. If the Supreme Court accepts that argument, public college employees and students with physical or mental impairments could be precluded from using A.D.A. legislation to force accommodation from these institutions.
UCLA campaign raises $1.2 billion
The University of California at Los Angeles recently announced that it had raised a single-campus record $1.2 billion. Launched in 1997, the campaign is set to close in June 2002. UCLA has raised its goal to $1.6 billion--up from the original goal of $1.2 billion--making the fund drive the most ambitious attempted by any public institution. School officials credit 37 gifts of $5 million or more and an increase in donor wealth and level of philanthropy as factors in the campus’s fund-raising success. UCLA is one of 23 institutions--nine of them public--which have announced capital campaigns exceeding $1 billion.
--Matthew Winston
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