Sentences with phrase «of affirmative action»

What is the value of affirmative action in academia?

And many higher education groups have collected large amounts of evidence on the educational benefits of diversity in support of affirmative action policies.

On the other hand, there are those who challenge the legitimacy of having higher education institutions take active measures to ensure campus racial diversity, including through the use of affirmative action.

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.

This is a different kind of affirmative action that can make a difference for the better.

Today, this program is successful and even has the support of critics of affirmative action.

This is particularly relevant to his discussion of affirmative action, an issue hotly debated in Jewish circles.

What happens when students don't understand that the purpose of affirmative action isn't only to create a diverse environment, but also to support people of color?

Overall, the author's critique of affirmative action exposes the limitations of liberal public policies.

And without the presence of affirmative action in her life, those who had quickly noticed her would have had fewer ways in which to help her.

Isn't «someone else's point of view» the essence of affirmative action in education?

This is, she said, a «double standard» worthy of the worst aspects of affirmative action.

We have started the process of affirmative action to include more female voices in decision making.

Based on this research, it's hard to imagine how anyone can continue to defend the use of affirmative action to lower standards for students from minority groups.

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

Is this a form of affirmative action for whites amid Asian - American overachievement?

Garces was honored for her article, «Understanding the Impact of Affirmative Action Bans in Different Graduate Fields of Study,» which she published in the American Educational Research Journal in April 2013.

While spending his career primarily working as lead trial attorney in personal injury trials, he is proud to have handled one case which resulted in the adoption of an affirmative action plan by a Florida law enforcement agency, and another lawsuit which led to industry changes throughout the U.S. in child safety practices, and yet another that resulted in the largest commercial jury verdict in the State of Florida at the time.

But in the early 1970s many universities circumvented the original spirit of affirmative action by recruiting African American students from more affluent backgrounds and those who had attended majority - white high schools.

Previously, Shaw's research has contributed to the understanding of the effects of affirmative action laws — in particular, race - conscious admissions policies — on achievement for black students.

Yet deciding what it means to act justly in particular situations (whether it's a case of affirmative action or the huge global inequalities in living standards) is highly controversial.

From the representations of other B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. members like Smart Brother (Gary Anthony Williams) and Conspiracy Brother (Dave Chappelle) to the white intern Lance (Neil Patrick Harris) who was hired because of affirmative action, the script by John Ridley and Michael McCullers and based on an internet cartoon series by Ridley is fearless when it comes to walking all over PC barriers.

Republicans agreed to broaden the bill, but discouraged the use of affirmative action as a remedy.

All aspects of employment including recruitment, selection, hiring, training, transfer, promotion, termination, compensation, and benefits conform to this policy in order to further the principles of equal employment opportunity and the spirit of affirmative action.

(14) Although Reagan largely tried to ignore the disparagements made by antidiscrimination groups, he eventually was forced to abandon modifying the hotly contested topic of affirmative action in order to avoid more political backlash.

Scalia's view of affirmative action, generally, was that it was impermissible except to remedy a specific, identifiable harm.

According to this article (9/19/07), the California Bar denied Sander's request for the data this past June, asserting that bar applicants provided data on race believing that it would be used for studies related to the exam and not on broader studies concerning the impact of affirmative action on minority lawyers.

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.

The complaint says, among other things, that at the invitation of the Black Law Students Association, Professor Peltz took part in a legitimate academic debate in which he questioned the constitutionality and effectiveness of affirmative action.

In a 7 — 1 ruling (PDF), the U.S. Supreme Court called for stricter scrutiny of affirmative action admissions procedures in higher education but did not eliminate the use of such considerations in admissions decisions.

His executive orders have targeted immigration, while his Justice Department started a review of affirmative action in colleges and joined a suit to halt the spread of gay rights in the workplace.

This is the careful thesis put forth by writer, poet and doctoral researcher Clint Smith, who suggests that the only smart way to fully understand the power of affirmative action is to look at the decades long, ugly history of entitlement programs — housing, education, for veterans, etc. — that were designed to benefit exclusively white people.

The Supreme Court has refined the rules of affirmative action over the years, and this case gives the opportunity for it to do that again.

Jason Riley challenges the value of affirmative action and liberal social reform precisely 50 years after their birth as part of the «Great Society» conceived by President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration in 1964 and 1965.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

Here's another brief passage from the book that tracks the story of affirmative action in America — and, for that matter, of the larger political divide in America.

There is a dearth of affirmative action policies designed to impact executive level hiring.

I have also written critically of blacks» continued reliance on civil - rights - era protest and legal strategies, and of the propagation of affirmative action throughout our employment and educational institutions.

Half a century of affirmative action and anti-poverty programs have not lifted the fortunes of black Americans.

If a policy of affirmative action violates white people's rights to equal treatment but produces beneficial results for the world in the long run, such as increasing the number of black doctors and lawyers or reducing poverty on Indian reservations, then there's no reason to worry about rights.

Mobility by means of affirmative action breeds tenuous self respect and questionable peer acceptance for many middle - class blacks.

Yale Law Professor Stephen L. Carter's first book, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, opened with the arresting observation that «To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box.»

Male seminary classmates see women as favored candidates for those jobs that take heed of affirmative action goals.