A larger group of nearly 40 students participated in 1975 with the same num ber of instructors. Rich and John Schmitz, the technician who ran the program, think that ratio a bit high, but still rated it a success. John explained that technicians took turns in pairs planning the ...
Ed. 2d 564, the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to a public school district's random urinalysis testing program for students who participate in inter-scholastic athletics. In examining the "nature of the privacy interest" at stake, the Court explained that public-school children generally...
Dr. Shaun Harperis a leading expert on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. In arecentForbesarticle, he detailed what will happen on campuses nationwide as Black students strive to access a college education post-Affirmative Acti...
A 2017 study by nonprofitOpportunity Insights, found some colleges have more students from the top 1%of the income scale than from the entire bottom 60%and roughly 1 in 4 of the richest students attend an elite college. "Affirmative action is a distraction from the real issues," said Hughes...
opens in a new tab or windowof NOVA Cardiovascular Care in Woodbridge, Virginia, said the paper aligns withsystemic racismopens in a new tab or windowin sending the message that minority trainees are in their position only because of affirmative action, rather than through merit, and that ...
Learn about the major milestones in the history of affirmative action.1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010sMarch 6, 1961Executive Order 10925 makes the first reference to "affirmative action"President John F.
Thomaswrote in his memoirthat his Yale degree “bore the taint of racial preference,” but at last check, he hasn’t flushed his mind of the education he received there. Unfortunately for Thomas, denouncing affirmative action measures doesn’t make him any less a benefi...
wrote in a footnote on the majority opinion that the Supreme Court was not deciding one way or another regarding affirmation action at military academies because of "the potentially distinct interests that military academies may present." "For the United States military, as I’ve explain...
Although the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard came as no surprise, its mandate to exclude the consideration of race in college admissions feels like a gut punch, especially to those of us who have been longtime advocates for educational equity. Even more upse...
of the most famous quotes about Affirmative Action comes from President Lyndon Johnson who explained the rationale behind the use of affirmative action to achieve equal opportunity in a 1965 speech: “You do not take a person, who for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring...