Affirmative action

In this article Katherine DeCelles makes it clear that even if a company is pro-diversity that it is hard to be certain that culture is understood or practiced by everyone, in particular, those that are screening resumes. By not properly training those that will be screening resumes to be pro-diversity the company will be at a greater risk for liability of claims on racial discrimination. Katherine makes this connection as throughout her research many recruiters made hiring decisions…

The world's increasing globalization requires more interaction among people from distinct cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds than ever before. People no longer live and work in an insular marketplace, they are now part of a worldwide economy with competition coming from nearly every continent. This is one of the reason why profit and non profit organizaions needs diversity to became more inspired and open to change . Maximizing and capitalizing on workplace diversity has become an important area…

The mediation continued for more than a year. Meanwhile the state asked the judge for permission to go to the circuit court of appeals. The appeal was denied. The Coalition of Students and Alumni of HBCU’s challenged the state’s action. Now the faculty and administrators must have the courage to speak truth to power. In 1970 Bowie State University’s student enrollment was forty percent White. Now White students comprise four percent of the student population at Bowie State University…

Due to numerous disadvantages (e.g. socioeconomic and education), awareness of the history of injustice and discrimination, fear of additional burden and commitment, poor understanding of research processes, ineffective recruitment procedures, and unfavorable researcher attributes, result in minorities not wanting to participate in research (Table 1). Researchers, their teams, and institutions can create facilitators for engaging minorities in research. These facilitators are a combination of…

Results Overall, would the housekeeping position at Gateway Inn be suitable for an individual with a disability? The answer is yes. However, this position is not a match for everyone and not all individuals with disabilities will be able to apply for a position at Gateway Inn. During the interview, the manager had mentioned that they once hired someone for the front desk, not knowing that they were color blind. “The files behind the desk are all color coded, which is why this employee was not…

As a junior in high school who is college bound the problem of affording college is at the back of my mind. I go through many scholarship websites, and I found one scholarship particularly caught my eye. The scholarship application only required you answer one question, which was. If you could tell one thing to the entire world what would it be? I simply answered with, I would tell the world that Black lives matter. I gave this response because mainstream American society, as a whole, does not…

In their work, Felipe and Montalvo discuss situations in which food justice organizations want to improve “diversity” and/or “inclusiveness” of their program. They authors quickly points out that the need to improve diversity reveals that the program currently lacks diversity and is most likely, a predominantly white and heteropatriarchal space. The author’s point that something cannot exist without its opposite reminded me of the philosophical concept of “unity of opposite.” Many consider that…

6. A meritocracy is a social ideology. The idea is that individuals can earn rewards based off of their individual talents and abilities. It implies that every individual has a fair and equal chance of success from fairly given opportunities. In a true meritocracy, an individual can obtain economic success based solely upon his or her merit, and not based on his or her race, social class, inheritance, or luck. Therefore, in a theoretical meritocracy, inequality is nonexistent. There are a few…

Should race be a factor in college’s admission decision? Do you find this fair? I truly believe that race shouldn’t play any type of factor in college. Why should only a certain race be able to go to one special college? For example let’s say Harvard only accepted white people and you were Hispanic or African American, how would you feel? Do you think that’s alright? I for one hand being Hispanic would absolutely hate that. What if there was no such thing as race? What would be judge people by?…

The labor force hasn’t always been fair for certain ethnic groups. Whites have always been stereotyped as the “dominant” race over the years. Many different minorities were encouraged to migrate to the United States to work. A minority is a group of people who are discriminated against in a community because of race, religion, or language. There are complaints about fairness at work, the payment minorities receive, welfare, etc. Klein, the co-chair of the Kapor Center for Social Impact, states…