Affirmative defense

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…

Prompt #3 An issue I’d like to solve in the United States is effects of affirmative action. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, affirmative action is defined as “an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women.” Affirmative action policies generally relate to employment and education opportunities. In regards to education, specifically college, affirmative action relates to admission guidelines that implement fair and…

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…

On December 9, 2015, the Supreme Court rules on a 4-3 decision that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment allows colleges and universities to use race as part of the college admissions process for undergraduates in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. The majority opinion issued by Justice Kennedy argues that there was no other way for the university to fulfill its compelling interest of increasing diversity without using race as part of its admissions process. Justice Thomas’s…

order for Thomas Hill to justify the affirmative action policies, he incorporates two types of critical thinking. The first being forward-looking, which is simply seeing a drawback in a forward , or brighter future. However, the problem with forward-looking is that making a decision based on only what seems to make the most people joyful results in forgetting the negative consequences. To go more in depth, the downside of forward-looking regarding the affirmative action policies is that by only…

An affirmative action plan is a strategy that encourages employers to increase the diversity of their workforce by hiring individuals based on race, sex, ang age. These potential employees must be qualified for the job. Although an affirmative action plan encourages hiring protected-class candidates, an employer cannot set quotas for this process. They can develop strategies to encourage applications from diverse candidates. Nevertheless, the issues regarding this type of plan is that the…

Affirmative Action is defined as “an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.” Both articles I read “Affirmative Action and Higher Education” and “Achieving Diversity on Campus”. While both ladies argue a valid point everyone and every school will have different options on the matter. Whether or not it is a positive or negative on the educational community is unknown since we all have…

The University of California Medical School adopted a quota system to diversify its students. They set aside 16 slots out of 100 for minority applicants. They did this in order to have other minorities in the medical community. Allan Bakke was one to disagree with that way of thinking through this process. Allan Bakke was an applicant of Caucasian descent, whom was denied twice by University of California’s medical school. He not only served in Vietnam but had a higher academic record than…

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…

Affirmative Action Essay Affirmative action has been a major issue for some students when it comes to determining who should continue their education and who should not based on the colleges that the students chooses. The policy is known to favor students of color over white students in offering admissions to colleges. Affirmative action should not be used by colleges based on Aristotle’s framework that people should get what they deserve. Aristotle’s framework can be described as what…