Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

programs. Although, initially affirmative action programs should be helping, in reality it can also work against. This is a relevant example in several colleges in California, where I would like to apply. Some examples are University of California: San Diego (UCSD), University of California: Irvine (UCI), and University of California: Los Angeles. Using UCI as an example, two major groups that make the majority of the students are 46.2% Asian and 27.1% Hispanic/Latino. The controversy…

5/14/2015 SPRING 2015, ETH 1 Deborah Kindler Article #3 Asian Americans: Change against Discrimination Unfair discrimination can be found in many places in the service industry. This can be found in such places as institutions (colleges and universities), healthcare industry (hospitals and nursing homes), and corporations. Discrimination can be found in hiring in such places as hotels and motels, in reverse-discrimination. Hotels and motels hiring practices are to hire minorities, therefore…

began to be delineated by Brown v. Board of Education which declared segregation in schools unconstitutional. The ruling on this decision snowballed into a considerable amount of similar legislation and, most notably, the Civil Rights Acts signed by Lendon B. Johnson which prohibited “discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin.” The constitutionality of affirmative action was upheld by the Regents of the University of California v Bakke ruling in 1978 which…

Affirmative action is used in a good amount of employment and university systems. In Chandler Smith’s case affirmative action was used to decide who qualified for the five spots left to those who fit the school’s definition of diversity. Chandler being rejected when applying to the spot caused a two sided argument rise on if Chandler deserved to have been accepted or not. One side claims that she did not fit the description they were looking for for diversity and the school is allowed to do such…

Achieving a diverse student body has been a goal within education since the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) that “separate but equal” violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Lipson (2007) state selective universities has been practicing race-based affirmative action and other racial diversity policies since 1960s. Many institutions try to establish methods to diversify the student body that does not discriminate against any particular group of…

that Fisher III effectively raises the standard and makes strict scrutiny truly strict. Proponents, on the other hand, argue that the Court’s decision in Fisher III did not have a tangible effect on the court’s analysis of racial considerations by University admission officers. Derek W. Black, in his article published in the Howard Law Journal in the winter of 2014, argues that Fisher did not actually changed the law, but was “important for a far more subtle reason: it represents the continuing…

Austin Mabery Yollotl Lopez English 101 February 24, 2015 The Flaws in Good Intentions Affirmative action has been a massively debated controversy for the last several years and will continue to be for many more to come. For those who do not quite know or don’t fully understand what Affirmative Action is, it is best described as Policies in which higher level education and organizations make efforts to improve opportunities for underrepresented minorities. It also takes into account race, color…

In 2008, a young caucasian woman named Abigail Fisher applied to the University of Texas at Austin. When she was denied admission, ostensibly because the school used her race as a factor in its admissions decision, she filed suit against the University of Texas for violating her rights under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. By doing so, she entered into an ongoing fierce debate over affirmative action policies. This debate was, unsurprisingly,…

The case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), which challenged use of racial quotas in admissions in California state medical schools, was the first important case in defining the limits of government preferential policies. Bakke argued that through use of such policies the government was discriminating against whites. The Supreme Court disallowed the quotas. Another major Supreme Court decision in the history of affirmative action came in Adarand Constructors v. Pena…

discrimination and to extend job opportunities to the minorities particularly the African Americans. In 1964 college and university admissions adapted the policy Sercado 2 and in 1971 it was extended…