Sentences with phrase «what affirmative action»

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

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He's also fended off less ridiculous criticisms around quotas and affirmative action; he says the «what if the best qualified people are men?»

So, what did the justices look like before having to rule on health care, affirmative action, and surveillance laws?

What is the value of affirmative action in academia?

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

What about affirmative action?

«I bet he's opposed to affirmative action» «What a fake, anyone could get a gold medal with the advantages he's had»

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.

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.

It's a case of what might have been for Getafe whose owners seem content with their affiliation rather than taking affirmative action.

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

Indeed this was the fundamental political foundation for the groundswell of popular and patriotic affirmative action that culminated in the wind of change 2015 election outcome and it is just what Nigeria needs to facilitate a realistic national resolve and agenda to salvage and safeguard the endangered northern entitlement to second term in 2019.

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And if affirmative action is over in the Dutch sciences, what other measures could be taken to help women break through «the glass ceiling»?

What's refreshing is the emphasis the film places on Bale's character's conception of masculinity that doesn't fall under either of the usual tropes; he's neither idealistic at the cost of lacking the will to take affirmative action (as Whitaker's character is) nor is he a time bomb of self - destructive aggression (as Affleck's character is).

As we approached the final assessment for this unit on racism and racial privilege, I again posed a central question for students to consider: to what degree, if any, should colleges and universities in Washington State use affirmative action programs in their admissions decisions?

«It was perplexing that the Supreme Court took the case because the University of Texas admission policy seemed in line with what the court had ruled was acceptable in the Michigan case,» says Professor Julie Reuben, pointing out that in Grutter v. Bollinger the Supreme Court supported the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action admissions policy.

What design can do however, is give the next generation the skills to create affirmative action - through the thinking and doing skills that it engenders.

This framing tends to fuel what Warikoo calls «the diversity bargain,» in which white students support affirmative action as long as black and Latino students on campus do not form their own organizations and friend groups, and whites do not feel overlooked through «reverse discrimination» when they apply for fellowships, jobs, and graduate school.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Cashin, author of Place, Not Race, explains how the benefits of race - based admissions decisions are actually outweighed by the social costs, and argues for a return to what she considers the original intent of affirmative action policies: helping people — no matter their race — who have been systemically locked out of opportunity.

«We released this poll today to show our support — and what we believe is the public's strong support — for the affirmative action policies called for in Diversity Challenged.

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

First, the Public Service Act 103 of 1994 restricts eligibility of employment in public sector to citizens and permanent residents.13 Second, the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 prioritises and optimises employment of South African citizens who are previously disadvantaged by apartheid policies in what is termed «Affirmative Action Measures (AAM).»

Underlying the affirmative action cases is the question: to what extent should the widening scope for choice be regulated on racial grounds?

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?

So, what, purge half of all scientists who identify as Democrats (the 55 % in the PEW poll, vs. the upper 20s in the general population), give a little affirmative action for the independents and whopping great amounts for that 6 % who identify as Republican.

What we need are forms of affirmative action polices when it comes to men and domestic work...

What makes it more problematic here is he is known for long - standing opposition to affirmative action in previous decisions (among many other controversies).

What do you think of Sander's argument that that affirmative action is causing black law students to get lower grades and pass the bar less often than their white peers?

WilmerHale Seminar: Federal Contracting and Affirmative Action Employment Law Update — What HR Professionals and General Counsel Need to Know