The Action

The Case against Affirmative Action Here are many reasons to go against Affirmative Action. Many people know of Stanford and believe it is a great University. Stanford has gone against racial minorities especially in hiring, contracting and financial aid. Recently the University has decided to change this policy because of a public debate on affirmative action. Affirmative action on the opposite of discrimination. All laws of the United Sates of American make sure all people are, and that they…

The college admissions process is a varying source of stress for graduating high school students. Affirmative action, a government policy promoting diversity at universities, grants certain minority groups an advantage for college applications Since 1990, U.S. colleges’ affirmative action policies, created by admissions officers and the government, have caused conflicting economic effects, including financial aid and scholarship availability, insufficient socioeconomic diversity, and federal…

Affirmative action has been a huge discussion in higher education for the reason being that it gives minorities the opportunity to become successful in life. Minorities are usually the ones who are looked down upon because they are not given the chance to become educated. Everyone deserves to be equal and be given the chance to face his or her individual rights. The goal for affirmative action is to have everyone be treated similarly as well as promoting diversity in education and everyday life.…

Affirmative action policies are methods in which associations work to increase the opportunities for traditionally discriminated ethnicities in the United States, with the purpose of creating a more diverse country. This policy came about in the 1960s, as a result of the 1960’s Civil Right Movement. It is a way for minorities or historically discriminated ethnic or racial groups to get an advantage in society, however some people see affirmative action as reverse discrimination or racism.…

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…

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Affirmative action policies places non-minorities at a disadvantage along with analysts believing that these rules impact the individuals they are attempting to help. Affirmative action was established to put an end towards discrimination. Shelby Steele, who is an English professor at San Jose State University, acknowledges instead of affirmative action to resolve the problem it intensifies the problem. In addition, someone who is a minority may never know whether their skin color, sex, or…

Many litigations involving Affirmative Action were contested in court, but two, in particular, were student Affirmative Action cases that were presented to the U.S. Supreme Court. The very first challenge to affirmative action programs in higher education is DeFunis v. Odegaard (1973), which involved Marco DeFunis, Jr. and the University of Washington Law School (UWLS) (Smallwood, 2015, p. 2). The lawsuit questions UWLS’s practice for considering minority applications separately from the rest…

A Civil Action is a 1998 film depicting an attorney, Jan Schlichtmann, played by John Travolta, and how he battles it out against two companies that ha accused of dumping toxic and harmful waste into the nearby bodies of water and the ground. The plaintiff of this case is the families that were affected by the dumping of the waste; five families in which a child of theirs died from leukemia, and so Anne Anderson, also a victim, reached out to Schlichtmann to take on this case. The companies…

The late 1960s showed a valiant effort to integrate equal opportunities for everyone. Decades later, racial equality became lost in translation. I agree with the article that there are some issues with Affirmative Action. Mismatch often sets minorities apart from their classmates because they are not matched to the class and will more than likely get lower grade averages than a prepared student would. Self-confidence in mismatched student is undermined and stereotypes are set, do to racial…