Class action

diversity affirmative action policies that seek to enhance the diversity of their student body. Diversity affirmative action also helps individuals to become more tolerant within a college campus because it exposes people to a dissimilar student body that includes cultures and ideas that are different from their own. Affirmative action also helps prevent individuals or groups excluded from opportunities on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender. The practice of affirmative action has often been…

As it is now, it facilitates the entrance to college to minorities of the higher classes. In its current form, affirmative action is well intentioned, but it is rather ineffective, and it sets itself up for causing a stir among whites who feel that minority status is taking precedent over academic performance, and calling this practice reverse discrimination. The case against…

Is Affirmative action fair? 1 Is affirmative action fair? Does affirmative action help America? No, affirmative action was needed in the past, but has spiraled out of proportion and needs to be fixed. (6) Affirmative action is not fair because it promotes discrimination, unfair workspace, and un-equal opportunity. 2 What is affirmative action? Affirmative action today is when any person or business goes out of their way to accept someone into anything because of their skin color, gender, or…

Journal 4 This week we began to discuss hiring and promotion decisions and affirmative action. One of the topics mentioned in hiring and promotion decisions is sex stereotyping. This issue is important to me because I grew up being told that girls do this and boys do that. I have four brothers and one sister that I didn’t really get along with. This led to me spending a lot more time rough housing with my brothers. I would definitely describe myself as a tomboy for the most part. Sometime at…

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…

Affirmative action has been a controversial topic ever since it was established to right past wrongs against minority groups, such as African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics. The goal of affirmative action is to integrate minorities into public institutions, like universities, who have in the past been discriminated against in such environments. Even after all these years since it has been first introduced affirmative action is still a strongly debated topic. In this discussion, I am going to…

Affirmative Action in college settings should be taken away because there are more aspects that need to be considered in the college admissions. Today in colleges, “We do treat race and ethnicity differently than region, age, special talents, and the many other considerations that enter into admission decisions” (Fullinwider). Some colleges admit students who are in a minority group just because they are a minority. Those colleges don’t care about where they are from, how they did…

The United States government enacted affirmative action in 1961 during the Kennedy administration to give minorities an equal opportunity in society (“A brief History…”). Since then, many colleges and companies across the nation have implemented this action. Included in this action is a group of executive orders. One of the most popular executive actions introduced is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that requires companies employed by the federal government to not judge based on race…

19: Is Affirmative Action Necessary to Achieve Racial Equality in the United States?” Is Affirmative Action Necessary to Achieve Racial Equality in the United States? Over the years, the policy of Affirmative Action has become a controversial topic throughout the political world. A question many politicians and scholars seem to come across is “is the policy of Affirmative Action Necessary to achieve racial equality in the United States?” Many would argue, yes affirmative action is necessary,…

included into this loop due to recent political and social change. The article “(In)Secure Times: Constructing White Working- Class Masculinities in the Late 20th Century” by Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Judi Addelston, and Julia Marusza Hall, the authors describe the studies which they had conducted in order to understand the “personal identities” white poor and working-class males have produced, specifically in the United States, during the late 1980s…