Affirmative defense

population in the minority race, the healthcare field needed to reflect the change. Therefore, medical schools implemented affirmative action plans in order to address this issue. However, the controversy started to rise when white college applicants began to take legal action against public universities and medical over the admission process. While some people suggest affirmative action enhances students learning experiences, others argue that instead of using race as a factor they should use…

Equality means treating everyone the same, and that everyone has the same opportunity to be the best they possibly can e.g. everyone gets education they need to get the career they want. Diversity means a range of difference of things e.g. culture or race. It’s important to promote equality and diversity because everyone can get the same service as the rest, which meets up to their personal needs. This can lead to a decrease of discrimination of others (treating a group of people or an…

The United States is a country founded on ideals and unfulfilled aspirations of a perfect nation in which all are equal and no one group of people has too much power. Our history is filled with the constant struggle between fulfilling those ideals and maintaining status quo and allowing the nation to stagnate or regress allowing inequality to reign and certain groups to control the country. While our nation has struggled on this point it bears to ask whether real political and social change is…

factors completely out of their control? Affirmative action, the favoring of different races, genders, and ethnicities in order to promote equality, has become a “leg up” on the competition for applicants that qualify. Although diversity is important, who is the admissions board to discriminate against a well-suited student, solely based on race? To prevent the favoring of different races, genders, and ethnicities in college admissions, the level…

Affirmative action began as an executive order signed by President Kennedy during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Civil Rights Act was later expanded on to include women and signed into law by President Johnson. It is defined as an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. Affirmative action was created to break down barriers and level the playing field, and to ” proceed on the common sense notion if…

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…

Securing the Future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) On August 1, 2015, the National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Alumni Association (NHBCUAA) had a conference on the campus of Bowie State University. The theme of the conference was “The Role of Alumni for the 21st Century HBCU.” The goals of the conference were to engage participants in thought-provoking discussions on the challenges of HBCUs in the 21st Century, such as political attacks and threats of…

hiring practices require that the procedures and policies utilized by the organization for for hiring and promotional practices are constantly evaluated to ensure that the organization does not have adverse impact. Hiring a candidate based upon affirmative action gap, just because of their protected status would require an organization to examine what types of procedures and policies are used to make this determination. Colarelli, Poole, Unterborn, and D'Souza (2010) found the…

In my opinion, the United states does not need affirmative action any longer. It was understandable to have back in the 1960s when it was first enforced, but doesn’t have a reason to be used any longer. Many of the minorities in the united states feel as if they are treated like they are less capable to succeed than White-Americans are, because of affirmative action. Giving the minorities a pass to be accepted into colleges or be employed, makes it more evident that there is still a racial…