Sentences with phrase «banning affirmative»

California banned affirmative action policies in public universities in 1996, and just this year a federal appeals court upheld the ban, according to the Associated Press.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

In response to Proposal 2, the 2006 ballot initiative that banned affirmative action in the public sector in Michigan, she cofounded The Imagine Fund, a nonprofit providing scholarship for academically qualified and economically challenged students of color to attend Michigan colleges and universities.

Meanwhile, Michigan voters approved a controversial plan to ban affirmative action in public programs.

It's possible that the Supreme Court may ban affirmative action nationally, find specifically that the way that the University of Texas employs it is alone is untenable, or allow the university to justify it again at the trial level.

Not exact matches

The khat ban is being introduced through the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) No. 2 Order, which is an affirmative instrument.

The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a Michigan measure that banned the use of affirmative action in admission to the state's public universities.

But this argument ignores the declines in racial diversity on campus that have taken place after bans on affirmative action and the real - world consequences that these declines have for students of color.»

To be specific, the case will consider the constitutionality of Michigan's Proposal 2, a voter - approved ban on affirmative action policies in Michigan universities, which was passed through a ballot vote in November 2006 with a margin of 58 — 42 percent.

«The types of questions the Court is considering in Schuette relate to my research interests and, in past work, I have found that bans on affirmative action lead to statistically significant declines in the enrollment of underrepresented students of color in various graduate fields of study,» she says.

«If affirmative action bans are causing lower rates of black - student enrollment in less selective institutions, there's something else going on,» says Shaw.

In his doctoral qualifying paper, Shaw found that the effects of affirmative action bans in Southern states with a history of state - sponsored segregation are not limited to more exclusive academic institutions.

California's ban on affirmative action programs in public education and government agencies has had little impact on school districts since its passage last November in a statewide vote.

Bill's father, William Gates II, succeeded his wife as a regent and carried on the family tradition by, among other things, recommending that the university defy a ban on affirmative action in admissions.

In light of California's two - decades - old ban on affirmative action programs, it is not clear the extent to which districts will be able to establish programs targeted at black and Latino students specifically.

Dr. Backes has published papers on topics including whether affirmative action bans depressed minority college enrollment rates and whether the bans discouraged minority students from applying to college.

In a 6 - 2 decision today in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action (companion case Schuette v. Cantrell), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling and upheld a Michigan voter initiative that bans the practice of race - conscious admissions to the state's public universities.

Using administrative data from the UC from before and after the ban on race - contingent admissions policies, we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weight given to SAT scores, grades and family background characteristics after the end of affirmative action, and that these changes were able to substantially (though far from completely) offset the fall in minority admissions rate after the ban on affirmative action.

He is currently exploring how universities changed their admissions rules in response to affirmative action bans, and how these new admissions rules affected students» human capital investment decisions prior to entering college.

According to Sunstein, it is not accidental that current protections against racial discrimination are a product of the 1950s; expansive protections of religious liberty came out of the 1960s; the ban on sex discrimination in the 1970s; and sharp constraints on affirmative action in the 1990s and 2000s.