Others distinguish it as preferential treatment or quota hiring: choosing people solely because of a race or gender identity, with little or no reference to their qualifications or actual disadvantage. Affirmative action can refer to recruitment efforts at colleges, government mandates that a percentage of contracts or radio licenses go to minorities, voluntary efforts on the part of employers to diversify the workforce, or
Murray and Ungar Synthesis In the many recent debates about how to approach higher education, one issue that has constantly appears is the question of students benefiting from a liberal arts based education. Some argue that a liberal arts education is helpful in teaching students the basic life skills, others claim that a more specific field of study is necessary in order to b successful in life. In Ungar’s essay “the New Liberal Arts”, he claims that with a liberal arts education, students can benefit tremendously when they receive their jobs. In Murray’s essay “Are Too Many People Going to College”, he proclaims that a liberal arts degree is not highly recommended because the more difficult careers want students to take classes that are more specific to a job. Sanford J. Ungar and Charles Murray both conduct and display their own opinion towards the facts they learned through their own strenuous research.
D’Angelo, Raymond and Herbert Douglas, eds. Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity, 7th edition (Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill, 2009). “Issue # 19: Is Affirmative Action Necessary to Achieve Racial Equality in the United States?” Affirmative Action is an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from some sort of discrimination. According to Robert Staples, from black-Deprivation-White Privilege: The Assault on Affirmative Action; in a oppose to Roger Clegg, from “Faculty Hiring Preferences and the Law”, perhaps differentiate with one another’s views that poses a question stating if “Affirmative Action is Necessary to Achieve the United States Today?” Ultimately, I strongly disagree with Robert Staples for believing that the policy of affirmative action should continue just because our nation wants to provide and promote diversity; initially in the school system but, it is not fair for example. People are planning to attend university where they are suppose hold the grade point average of a 4.0 or higher.
The Supreme Court, however, ruled that the more formulaic approach of the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions program, which uses a point system that rates students and awards additional points to minorities, had to be modified. The undergraduate program, unlike the law schools, did not provide the individualized consideration of applicants necessary in previous Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action (Amara, 16-17). Because of the Supreme Court’s mixed emotions on this topic, unqualified students and job applicants are still being accepted over more qualified people but only because they are from a minority group. That is why affirmative action is a problem
Tanglewood Case 5: Disparate Impact Anthony Web Abstract In this case I will be talking about if Tanglewoods staffing practices are leading to adverse impact, and if recruiting and organization can enact if Tanglewood would wish to improve the diversity of their applicants, and how they can design promotion activities to improve the diversity of employees found in their upper management. I will determine the 4/5 ratio with the average of whites as well for the African Americans. I will identify what is wrong with Tanglewoods recruiting process is and what they need to do to get more diversity into their recruiting interview process and what they can do to increase promotions of minorities, and females in career development, traning, etc. Title of Paper According to Tanglewood case there is an African American who feels as though he has been discriminated against, and so the lawyer wants him to file a law suit against Tanglewood, because the African American feels as though he was discriminated against for a promotion with in the company, and that he always had good reviews. It shows in the case that there are more white people that are in upper positions verses other minorities.
The supporters of affirmative action admitted that it does discrimination in the technical term but it for social justice for the past minorities that have been deprived of social opportunity. Putting minorities in better positions to get into better schools and better jobs in the future is why affirmative action should continue to promote equality is society. One of the reasons it shouldn’t continue according to white males is that it causes reverse discrimination against white males at the work place. Affirmative action should continue because it helps the less advantage in society increase their chances of a better
Our country prides itself on encouraging its citizens to better themselves through education. (P) While its priority has been high school graduation, many jobs now require college degrees, making higher education more important than ever. While I understand that every American should be expected to sacrifice during this hard time, just as we were in World War II, I feel that this particular sacrifice would put our country in an even worse state. (S) Our work force will not be prepared to handle nor understand the advancements that we have strived so hard to achieve. College is made to prepare students with the newest information possible, so that we can constantly be improving ourselves and be able continue to compete with the world’s leading nations.
This policy involves reverse bias during recruitment in order to cater for those who were previously locked out and are under represented in the force. Racial bias could be used in ensuring more recruitment of candidates from minority races in order to rival the large population of the white race in the force and reduce intake of whites (Rueter, 1995). Another form of affirmative action with
A scholar, an author and a profound sociologist; Dr. Jennifer Peirce is tackling to find answers of how social stigma between race has created a still extreme disapproval and discomfort amongst elite working professionals in a time of the late 1980s when many institutional programs have sought to end affirmative action, but were still federally mandated at this particular corporation and other programs. In a contemporary America the political correctness to coincide the terminology of ending racism is to have colorblindness, as a sociologist Dr. Peirce looks to now answer the color blind ideology; which is to give fair representation to all those working, but is done so only based on the federal mandate and not personal ideology. Dr. Peirce utilized several different
The supporters see it as a balancing of the historical wrongs that were committed , while others see it as simply placing the inequalities in the other location. What spawns is the question of the acceptance of any discrimination. In higher education institutions a push for diversity because of affirmative action is what dictates the introduction of quotas and often times shadows the quality of the academics within the institution. This same aspect can be related to the workplace. In a survey of major companies, fourteen percent of hired strictly on a talent and merit basis, eighteen percent admitted to having racial quotas, while over half of the remaining companies said that they strived to reach certain "goals" when it came to hiring individuals of a minority group.