Challenges Of Transgender Students On College Campuses
The Life of a College Student: Transgender Students In today society being apart of the LGBTQ community has become fairly acceptable. People with in this community have been
I personally think race should not be important when getting into college. Why should your skin color determine if you can get into an institution or not? But others think it should because it makes society on campus diverse. Some might even say racism could play a part in the application process also. When race is involved in the application process it brings diversity, but it is not significant when education is the priority and it ruins equality.…
In recent discussions of trigger warnings-“alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response”, is a controversial issue that has been whether trigger warnings at colleges/universities should be issued to students who wish to be alerted on unappealing subjects or to not have triggered warnings from being practiced in American Universities. On the other hand, some argue that trigger warnings are necessary to keep students from emotional outbreaks in schoolrooms; however, others argue that trigger warnings are not useful and simply prevent students from acknowledging a true understanding of reality. My own view is that trigger warnings are not necessary to be practiced in American Universities,…
First, the direct implication of the case was gradual. The issue of racial inequality was seen as a practice that universities did not want to have bad press over for allowing, but did not want to detour well-qualified students either who believed they will get beat out by underrepresented minority groups (Ngyuyen). This hostile worrying of school lead to classroom surveys and tracking the number of racial incidents on campus, this allows the state to evaluate if the goal of the program is ever met (Fisher). This lead to the subsequent case of Fisher v. University of Texas, that brought the issue of affirmative action mainstream once again. The University of Texas stated it wanted a more diverse school with students from different economic backgrounds.…
This leaves a large gap as to what needs to be done for improving these ethical principles within student evaluations. Concepts that have been used to reduce bias have been to use faculty-developed evaluation instruments suited to specific departments and purpose of the course (GORDRON CITE). This has been adopted by North Carolina State University who has mandated this type of evaluation to prevent bias and unethical calculations of faculty (GORDON CITE). Female or male professors should not be judged on their gender, but by their teaching directive and development of the course. Most of the studies provided high percentages of student evaluations were based on personality, years of age the professor had, and the years of teaching experience.…
For instance, in college admissions, affirmative action prefers an underrepresented minority student whose parents are both successful than an overrepresented student whose father is a prisoner in a foreign country (Canady 42). This is unfair to the overrepresented student whose circumstances will not be taken into account in affirmative action simply because he or she will not diversify the campus at first glance. Not all people from overrepresented groups are privileged, but affirmative action treats all of them the same. In fact, people from overrepresented groups can sometimes prove to be the extremely hard workers. For example, talk-show host, Sean Hannity, tells of meeting a white man who escaped from Communist Czechoslovakia to the United States with no money, and he created a small business which soon earned enough money for the man to buy two houses (Marzilli 26).…
The first ever college application was created in 1919 and these applications were actually used as a discriminatory process since the schools weren’t that big so therefore this was a way that college administrators could quickly decide on which students to accept based on things such as race and religion. Today, many people still believe that process is still in effect today, they believe that some colleges pick certain students based solely off of race and that these could be some of the reasons why, take for example, a white person getting accepted into a university that makes B’s and C’s over a black person that makes all A’s. Do you see my point? This is why many people believe that race shouldn’t even be considered in the college application processes anymore. They feel that it shouldn’t matter what race you are and that your race shouldn’t determine whether or not you are…
Being a female determines that characters are part of the solution, while being male determines that characters are the root of the problem. Throughout the film, gender and race are used as decisive factors in the fate of the characters. Prior to watching Chi-Raq, I was not aware of the vastly different impact that race and/or gender can have on a given situation. Chi-Raq allowed me to see that societal norms and customs vary throughout the country, each state, and every city. Though I was aware that gender and race status impact lives, my experiences on a fairly liberal college campus precluded me from considering the severe impact that race and gender can have.…
He states that “this negative view of affirmative action can be explained that affirmative action has gone beyond the “plus” factor in college admissions.” Affirmative action was originally intended for families who were victimized from slavery and Jim Crow laws in the South. College admissions advisor no longer base their affirmative action givens on the Jim Crow laws which ended in 1965. They base their givens now on race and ethnicity and which being the minority comes into place. However, the process of affirmative action in higher education has been given to people whom families were not discriminated against by society and can damn near pay for college. Nicolaus Mills’ research on who benefits from affirmative action of which compares and contrast Harvard University studies.…
Critics believe that it would be impossible to create one college program to serve all minority students. The critics believe that one major weakness of the current minority studies is that the same Black American studies programs are not adequate to serve both black and white students equally well. Therefore, their belief is that there must be as many ethnic studies programs as there are ethnic groups. Rather than having to expand the studies, perhaps focusing on a better integrated American history program that should provide a well-balanced approach to the educational needs for all students not just one…
This debate is often depicted as being a two-sided conflict, with both sides claiming that their civil rights are violated. Those who favor race-conscious university admissions policies tend to base their arguments around injustice; they often point to the stark racial inequalities that exist in the United States and argue that affirmative action is the best way to deal with historic and present racial discrimination. The anti- affirmative action contingency often frames the debate as an issue of fairness; they believe that all admissions policies should be race-blind, and that any use of race is a violation of a citizen’s civil rights. They believe that policies which privilege minority students over other, sometimes more qualified applicants, are fundamentally…