Sentences with phrase «white applicants»

Several schools reported a decrease in the number of white applicants in recent years.

She added that she was encouraged that the proportion of successful applicants from an ethnic minority background broadly matches that for white applicants and that the number of successful women applicants has remained high.

And of the 70 white applicants who applied, 77 - percent of their group received teaching positions.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that the Trump administration plans to direct Justice Department resources toward investigating universities that have used affirmative action admissions policies to discriminate against white applicants.

When researchers studied how companies responded to applicants» resumes, they found white applicants were a third more likely to be called in for a first - round interview than their black counterparts.

Putting grades aside, The Guardian found that a little more than a quarter of white applicants earned admittance to the University of Oxford; compare that to 17.2 % for ethnic minorities.

«We couldn't send an equal number of black and white applicants because it wouldn't have been believable,» Devine explains.

«You are speaking in absolutes, and it isn't quite that,» Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said to Kirk O. Kolbo, the lawyer representing white applicants who challenged racial preferences in the University...

Shaw points out that in many situations inclusive admissions policies benefit white applicants as well as applicants of color.

In 2001, Shea filed an administrative complaint against the State Department for its disparate treatment of white applicants under its 1990 - 92 hiring plan, complaining that he did not enter at as high a grade as he may have and that the discrimination cost him in both advancement opportunities and earnings.

For example, if an employer only hires white applicants for certain jobs or excludes non-white employees from the most lucrative job assignments, this is race discrimination.

A 2003 study in California found that temporary agencies preferred white applicants three to one over African American applicants.

For example, if a housing provider rejects a Hispanic applicant based on his criminal record, but admits a non-Hispanic white applicant with a comparable criminal record, that landlord may be guilty of intentional discrimination, according to HUD.

* When this story first broke, it was characterized (in the New York Times article) as an effort to fight discrimination against white applicants, however, the Justice Department has stated that it will be investigating a claim of discrimination against an Asian - American student.

The latest silk round saw a record number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) lawyers appointed as QCs, with success rates for BAME candidates rising on last year and bettering the equivalent rate for white applicants.

It said an internal review of its lending patterns found that, after taking into account creditworthiness, its black and Latino applicants were no more likely to be denied loans than white applicants.

The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department's civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.

The data showed that 329 out of 586 white applicants (56 %) who went on to earn three top grades (known as A * s) at A-level received an offer from Cambridge, but among ethnic minorities with three A * s, only 190 of 412 applicants (46 %) received an offer, James Ball and Kurien Parel wrote in The Guardian article.

«To the best of our knowledge this study is the first to use a resume audit design to study labor market outcomes for Hispanic applicants in comparison to black and white applicants.

Similarly, the researchers used the surnames Hernandez and Garcia, and Anderson and Thompson, for Hispanic and white applicants, respectively.

An analysis, performed by a team of researchers primarily supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in this issue of Science, reveals that from 2000 to 2006, black (1) grant applicants were significantly less likely to receive NIH research funding than were white applicants.

Researchers sent 9,000 fictitious resumes to employers, using last names that were likely to be interpreted as coming from black, Hispanic or white applicants.

After the Institutes reviewed a 2011 analysis that found African Americans significantly less likely than white applicants to win NIH research grants, it pushed for a deeper look.

Lee and Shaw, both former attorneys, argued that the race - conscious admissions policy of the University of Texas does not unfairly discriminate against white applicants.»

For applicants that qualified for loans, black and Latino applicants were 2.2 times more likely to receive a subprime loan than white applicants.

After controlling for other factors, Faber found black applicants were 2.8 times more likely to be denied loans than white applicants, while Latino applicants were twice as likely to be denied.

The court below found — and petitioner does not deny — that white applicants could not compete for the 16 places reserved solely for the special admissions program.

The Justice Department's civil rights division is planning to sue colleges and universities that engage in «intentional race - based discrimination» in their affirmative action policies — that is, discrimination against white applicants.

Conventional loan applications from black applicants were rejected 13.3 percent of the time in 2015, compared with 5.7 percent for white applicants.