Katharina Fischer
This week, as early admissions decisions roll in from elite colleges, the nation will get another glimpse at how top schools are adapting after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in June 2023 for its discriminatory effect on Asian Americans. Earlier this year, controversy erupted at...
Affirmative action, often translated as "affirmative action", refers to measures taken by the US government, institutions, companies, schools, hospitals, etc., to prevent discrimination against applicants, especially ethnic minorities, based on "skin color, religion, gender, or place of o...
Affirmative action is an extremely controversial policy. All of the parties to the controversy can agree on that much. The academic debate over affirmative action has swirled around the normative arguments, either for or against the policy. Yet, until now, there has been no examination of the ...
This perpetuates the defensive position of affirmative action advocates. I identify three strategies to break with this dominant controversy. First, a shift in focus from non-discrimination to a "right to be treated as an equal" opens the way for affirmative action. Second, a stressing of the ...
Affirmative Action: Reverse Discrimination essaysAffirmative action was developed in the mid-1960s to offer equal opportunity for employment and education to women and minorities. These policies required that active measures be taken so that minorities h
Affirmative action is a much-debated policy, in employment as well as in education, in the Supreme Court as well as on the street. Yet as this book shows, affirmative action is both sensible and effective, differing little from many other government programmes that evoke no controversy. Why ...
(redirected from Affirmative Action Programs in Higher Education) Education Law The body of state and federal constitutional provisions; local, state, and federal statutes; court opinions; and government regulations that provide the legal framework for educational institutions. The laws that control ...
Striking down affirmative action does nothing to address discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans; as we have written previously, the controversy over Harvard rating Asian and Asian American applicants lower on the personality scale is the result of deep-seated racial biases and stereotypical ...
The post Debunking Myths About Affirmative Action in Universities appeared first on Executive Diversity. ]]> As the academic year has just begun, one difference already felt across the nation has been the striking down of Affirmative Action in higher education, removing almost 60 years of precedent...