Sentences with phrase «eliminate affirmative»

An interesting, timely, and well - informed book on the impact of present efforts to eliminate affirmative action in college and university admissions.

-- Contrary to the Latino recommendations, eliminate ALL affirmative action positions in ALL agencies and don't appoint anyone to the Chief Diversity Officer position (Point 4 in the letter).

Instead, eliminating affirmative action has decreased the ability of black students to attend public colleges across the board, with a pronounced effect in less selective institutions.

The Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider whether colleges may continue to use race as a factor in college admissions — opening the door to possibly eliminating affirmative action in higher education.

Not exact matches

From that debatable generalization, Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles moves to an attack on California's Proposition 209, which would eliminate state affirmative action programs.

«If you keep putting the pieces together, it does seem that from the court's perspective, we're on the slow path to eliminating race - based affirmative action.»»

Thus, state officials have an affirmative obligation not just to prevent intentional segregation, but to eliminate even unintentional segregation.

Moreover, the principle of equality sometimes requires measures of positive discrimination or affirmative action in order to diminish or eliminate conditions which cause or help to perpetuate discrimination prohibited by the Covenant.