Sentences with phrase «about affirmative action»

In part, this explains the hostility that some minorities themselves express about affirmative action, including sentiments by Justice Thomas.

Ironically, the broad diversity argument in higher education — that it benefits everyone, including white students — has perhaps led to a decline in a focus on racial inequities, says Harvard education professor Natasha Warikoo, and «maybe it's time to rethink this very shallow way we talk about affirmative action.»

Class sessions that critiqued notions of social justice and multiculturalism, raised concerns about affirmative action or a culture of «victimhood,» advocated phonics and back - to - basics instruction, or were generally positive with regard to testing or choice - based reform were coded as «right leaning.»

Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo, who recently wrote an L.A. Times op - ed about affirmative action, points out that although race - based affirmative action is still legal, universities can't rely solely on academic freedom to justify admissions policies.

In the Parker / Armstrong dining hall (from which whites are soon expelled when Sam is surprisingly elected head of house), Simien lets Kurt bark his complaints to Sam about affirmative action, and propose the dubiousness of colleges» diversity - driven enrollment practices, before spinning the tables back in favor of Sam, who claims Kurt's dad is promoting random housing out of fear that blacks will «congregate and cause trouble on his plantation.»

You might expect an all - white cast in a play about affirmative action to face an upward battle for audience sympathy.

They are not about affirmative action.

The most remarkable thing about affirmative action is that after twenty years of implementation and debate, it is still impossible to say what it means for an affirmative action program to succeed, or when one has gone too far in discounting the credentials of white school or job applicants.

What about affirmative action?

The argument was the first in a term that holds the prospect for major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.

When we talk about affirmative action, federal law allows you to hire a woman or minority candidate over a male or white candidate if both are equally qualified.

Not exact matches

I won't even talk about why affirmative action is in place and how it can still be immoral and ethical.

In light of actual employment practices, the black conservative rhetoric about race - free hiring criteria (usually coupled with a call for dismantling affirmative action mechanisms) does no more than justify actual practices of racial discrimination.

In this context affirmative prayer, meditation, and so forth, may be viewed as the most effective actions to bring about positive social change.

He has some intelligent things to say about the madnesses of multiculturalism and affirmative action, and rightly deplores the national preemption of questions such as abortion and religion in public education.

For example, when asked by George Stephanopoulos about whether or not he supports affirmative action, the senator referred to his own daughters as examples of the reform needed in the system.

Now you could argue about which demographics need how much of what kind of affirmative action.

To hear about your situation is ironic in light of the Supreme Court's revisitation of the affirmative action issue this month.

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They had gathered to discuss the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research's (NWO's) groundbreaking affirmative action program Aspasia and to brainstorm about how gender imbalance could continue to be tackled in universities and institutes nationwide.

For more about the constitutionality of assigning students to schools in order to achieve diversity, see «Affirmative Action Docketed»

The narrow decision by the Supreme Court was not surprising for many educators considering the complexity of affirmative action cases, but it still raises questions about how this may impact admissions.

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

In a conversation, Usable Knowledge asked Warikoo, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to talk about why students in the U.S. need to understand the historical roots of affirmative action and how colleges can become communities where students can talk about racial difference.

But the problem is that just stopping there ignores what affirmative action has historically been about.

When a phrase like «white supremacy» is bandied about so lightly, the most straightforward response for many on the Right (and even some in the middle), is to conclude that anyone who wants to shrink the federal government, supports school vouchers, or is skeptical of affirmative action risks being stamped a «white supremacist.»

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The Supreme Court may have ruled in Fisher v. University of Texas to uphold affirmative action in college admissions — but that decision won't signal the end of campus conversations about race and diversity.

But, how do they feel about diversity and affirmative action once they actually get to campus?

By randomly asking respondents slightly different questions about the same issue, we were able to investigate whether adjustments to policies such as national standards, affirmative action, school vouchers, and tax credits could attract broader support.

Affirmative action in particular softens any lingering doubts about racial equity in the application process.

«The problem is that when that is the only way students make sense of affirmative action and diversity,» says Warikoo, «it leads to some perverse outcomes,» including the perception of reverse racial discrimination and anxiety about how others are affecting their success.

Reflecting on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Dyson explores King's little - known or forgotten views: his support of the concepts of affirmative action and democratic socialism and his cynicism about white Americans.

Any person who is engaged in or is engaging in or is about to engage in any act or practice which is prohibited by this Part or any rule, regulation, or order promulgated or issued pursuant to this Chapter, or any person who has failed to act or is failing to act or is about to fail to act under any affirmative duty imposed by this Part or any rule, regulation, or order promulgated or issued pursuant to this Chapter, shall be subject to appropriate action by the commissioner.

The piece has stirred all kinds of debate about what the artist's motivations could have been: Was this a coy way of commenting on affirmative action, on the supposed «advantages» conferred on certain underrepresented minorities?

The fracas eventually culminated in the creation of the ad - hoc organization Action Against Racism in the Arts (AARA) and ushered in an era of lively public debates about institutional racism in the art world.1 As a result of this sort of multicultural activism and affirmative action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of Action Against Racism in the Arts (AARA) and ushered in an era of lively public debates about institutional racism in the art world.1 As a result of this sort of multicultural activism and affirmative action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of color.

RFS is in need of change and, perhaps, the old Washington line that I occasionally heard about revisions to Affirmative Action is in order: «Amend it, don't end it.»

Instead we hear about community organising and cooperatives, «affirmative action,» social justice, spirit fingers, noble Che Guevara, global authorities, expansion of entitlements and rights, which are ironically based upon the contraction of someone else's rights.

If I use a plain language search for affirmative action higher education I get 428 hits in WestlawNext and 95,704 in Lexis Advance (talk about information overload!).

The issues of affirmative action and its opposition is not just about admission, it's about the type of educational institutions and the culture that we create in them.

Last week, I blogged about whether law schools» affirmative action programs set minority law students up for failure.

Richard Sander, the UCLA law professor who says empirical data demonstrates that affirmative action has failed black law students, has agreed to chat about the subject from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday on ALM's Legal Times.

As I've previously expressed here and here, I'm deeply skeptical about UCLA law professor Richard Sander's studies that purport to show that law school affirmative action policies harm minorities in the long run because many minority students admitted through preferential policies are not academically prepared and do poorly in law school.

Increasing the diversity of the judiciary is about «maintaining confidence in the administration of justice,» not affirmative action, says Hum.

Suggest for follow - up action such as in interview and add a short affirmative sentence about yourself in the last paragraph.

They explore values such as universality (for example they consider when it is ok to curtail particular rights of individuals or groups of individuals, such as prisoners freedom of movement) and explore equality and non-discrimination (for example understanding that equal treatment and equality are not always the same thing such as in situations where it is necessary to put in place affirmative action or quotas to bring about equality between men and women).