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    Discrimination In Colleges

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    person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and say, ‘you are now free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” (LBJ, 1965) Affirmative action was initially meant to compensate for the years of institutional discrimination and help equal the playing field for people of color. …….. Colleges have to meet a certain requirement of people who are a certain race or minority.…

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    will finally repeal 2003 case, Grutter v. Bollinger, and remove demolish the affirmative action program. Fisher v. The University of Texas was a Supreme Court case in 2013 that was sent back to lower courts. The court case deals with Abigail Fisher, a white middle-class female that feels she was passed over for less qualified minority students. The Supreme Court looks different than in 2003 and it looks like affirmative action’s days are numbered. The federal government directly impacts the…

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    “In institutions of higher education, affirmative action refers to admission policies that provide equal access to education for those groups that have been historically excluded or underrepresented, such as women and minorities. Affirmative action is an outcome of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, intended to provide equal opportunities for members of minority groups and women in education and employment” (NCOSL). Affirmative action policies, at first were established in order to improve the…

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    been racing each other to defy social constructs and shatter glass ceilings. With the integration of women into male dominated workplaces, the subject of discrimination was breached. Those conversations led to the proposals of concepts like affirmative action and an Equal Rights Amendment, further polarizing working women. Though these ideas have been disputed for ninety-four years, they still…

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    “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. This quote is a direct excerpt from the United States’ Declaration of Independence from Britain, which established principles of equality in America. The ideology that Americans were created equal and had the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” generated the American…

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    of whether organizations should utilize affirmative action plans to hire individuals is critical, because equal hiring practices require affirmative action plans. In this paper, I argue that within the current public perceptions or misinterpretations of affirmative action, and the question of what should be considered equal hiring policies, there is no simple answer to this controversial issue. Due to weaknesses of the arguments against affirmative action plans, I will argue for the necessity of…

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    Hopewood Case Study

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    The Hopewood case: In 1996, the Fifth Court of Appeals ruled against affirmative action in the Hopewood case. The court decided that race or ethnicity could not be used as a deciding factor for college. This case involved a white woman who was denied access to college even though her test scores were higher than blacks and Hispanics that were accepted. (Nagel, 2001). Proposition 209: In 1996, an anti-affirmative action law was passed in California called Proposition 209. The law banned…

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    the Civil Rights Movement. Many believed action was necessary in order to ensure the equal treatment and opportunity of African Americans and those of other minority groups, so legislation was enacted. However, by doing so, reverse discrimination against Caucasian citizens in the eyes of employers and admissions offices of colleges began. America is a land where all citizens are guaranteed equal opportunities to succeed; therefore, affirmative action should no longer be used for college…

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    The problems raised by affirmative action are caused by concerns about the policy’s effectiveness and fairness. The Leadership Conference mentions how some believe that diversity does not impact the productiveness of the United State’s schools and workforces. Due to this, some question the degree affirmative action programs have been effective in providing otherwise unavailable opportunities in education, employment,…

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    the same opportunities to compete and be successful. This essay will define protected class, compare and contrast Affirmative Action law against Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. Additionally, the relationship between deservingness and attitudes toward social provision to groups and the relationship to Affirmative Action policy (Wilkins & Wenger, 2014) will be discussed. The protected class is defined as those individuals whose…

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