Affirmative Action: Elements, Features, And Controversies 'Affirmative action', as we know it today, was first utilized by President Kennedy in an executive order directing contractors engaged by the federal government to see to it that applicants a Continue Reading...
Affirmative Action How Does Affirmative Action Affect Higher Education? The issues that are related to race relations in the United States have reached unprecedented levels of tension on many fronts. Minorities are significantly more likely to be h Continue Reading...
Affirmative Action Challenged Currently, there is an increasing move away from government-centered to multi-sectored public service entities. This has created a challenge for the maintenance of equality-based programs like AA in an environment that Continue Reading...
It was this Executive Order that required all entities doing business with the federal government to agree that, by doing so, that they would not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin but the Executive Order Continue Reading...
Against Affirmative Action Contrary to the common perception, not all opponents of "Affirmative Action" are white males. Many African-Americans are also opposed to its continued application. For example, Ward Connerly, University of California Rege Continue Reading...
Grassroots movements and peaceful protests have helped promote equality in Hawaiian higher education. In 1991, a fierce debate waged throughout the nation over the legitimacy of affirmative action programs. That debate helped to showcase the need to Continue Reading...
Persistent Need for Affirmative Action Policies Affirmative Action The Historical Roots of Contemporary Affirmative Action Policies President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925 in 1961 to mandate unbiased hiring practices in federally fu Continue Reading...
Downside of Affirmative Action Affirmative action has increasingly become a popular subject of debate. Not only does the phrase "affirmative action" mean different things to different people, but also there are different arguments for and against i Continue Reading...
Discrimination and Affirmative Action "Firefighting is a skilled job where all of the skills learned are on the job… It's a really good job, and it's been racially exclusive in most of our major cities…" (John Payton, NAACP) (Liptak, 200 Continue Reading...
Discrimination and Affirmative Action Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) prohibits private and state and local government employers with 15 or more employees from Continue Reading...
One of the primary justifications for affirmative action in higher education has been that the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and other similar tools used to determine academic potential at the college and post-graduate level reflect a cultural bias Continue Reading...
ADA and Affirmative Action Discuss the problem that might be associated with a male counselor providing services to a female client. Are these valid concerns? Explain and provide options. Affirmative Action is designed to introduce individuals of Continue Reading...
In the case considered, there are two possibilities for the award of the contract: The first is that there may have been no companies on the applicant list that met the minority standards. The second is that non-minority companies far outweighed the Continue Reading...
American Disability Act and Affirmative Action Act Critique of Modern Civil Rights Acts The quest to ensure that every American's civil rights are guaranteed is still being waged today. New populations of disadvantaged are continuing to be guarante Continue Reading...
Racial Profiling Drachman, Edward R., Robert Langran, and Alan Shank. "Case 4: Race-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions: Keep It, Mend It, or End It?" You Decide: Controversial cases in American Politics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, Continue Reading...
Discrimination and Affirmative Action DISCRIMINATION The current study investigates gender discrimination and the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Women report through survey questions on how they view gender dis Continue Reading...
Social Psychology Dynamics in the Political Arena Has America moved past Affirmative Action with the election of a Black President? "Black Employment in Municipal Jobs: The Impact of Black Political Power" by Peter K. Eisinger explores levels of bl Continue Reading...
Davis and Beauchamp At the present moment Michael Davis' "Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing" begins from the standpoint of skepticism toward what he describes as the "standard theory" of whistleblowers. In this, he lays out what is taken to be the ju Continue Reading...
Public Administration vs. Private Personnel Administration Theories of public personnel administration as compared with private personnel administration have arose in recent decades as a result of the emergence of trends in business management. Publ Continue Reading...
An examination of the four basic steps of policymaking reveals this quite clearly. The first step in the policymaking process is the agenda setting that must come before policies are even considered. Bringing problems to the attention of policy mak Continue Reading...
Equal Protection and Public Education EssayEqual protection in public education occurs simultaneously with the protection of peoples civil rights, including the students; thus, it is applied in the assignment of students to specific schools for racia Continue Reading...
Public Policy Scholarship Despite significant progress in addressing institutionalized racism and other public policies that operate to the disadvantage of oppressed and marginalized groups, the recent upsurge in race-related incidents across the c Continue Reading...
Lessons from Ethical Violations in Public AccountingPublic accounting is a field faced with ethical issues similar to any area of practice. Unethical practices in accounting are often motivated by management greed, incentives, bonus, management press Continue Reading...
Black Women in White Male Industries Revise and Resubmit You have chosen in this paper a topic that has both national and international significance. How indeed inclusive, fair, and just are so called "inclusion or set-aside" initiatives? How open Continue Reading...
Public Administration: Presenting for the Future Immigration Policy Reform The term "immigration reform" is used to collectively refer to all efforts that have been undertaken by a country to amend abuses and reduce faults in its immigration policy Continue Reading...
An act, the purpose of which was the elimination of prejudice and the provision of equal opportunity for all, could not possibly have been endorsing the setting up of a new system of reverse discrimination. To select applicants solely on the basis o Continue Reading...
Affirmative Action Planning Affirmative Action Through its reference to affirmative action, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ushered in a remedy for disadvantage and discrimination that was intended to reach into the hallowed halls of higher education, Continue Reading...
solid waste management in impoverished areas versus affluent areas by examining the social, economic, ethical, and political reasons for placement of landfills and other waste removal facilities in poorer neighborhoods. By exploring the background o Continue Reading...
Once more oriented to the minimal statistics gathering and funding assistance between more or less watertight compartments, intergovernmental relations (IGR) has evolved into dynamic and highly integrated sets of behaviors, not only between agents o Continue Reading...
Diversity in the Workplace With globalization, different people ascribing to different cultures have crossed national borders in search of greener pastures. Similarly, multinational companies have expanded their operations across different countries Continue Reading...
520). Viewpoint neutrality ensures that funding is equally allocated to all registered student groups, and that registered student groups use their allocated funds in neutral ways. For instance, public funds collected by students can be used to sup Continue Reading...
Ideology in the News Ideology vs. Discourse on Affirmative Action The fact that ideology is first based on society and politics in today's media is fairly easy to understand. The role of the journalist is to suspend their viewpoint and remain auton Continue Reading...
Recruiting Minorities into Fire Department A Diversity Plan for the Nashville Fire Department The major goal of this plan is to increase the application of minority groups in the Nashville Fire Department. There are three specific objectives towar Continue Reading...
However, strain theory would counter that the frustrated aspirations of the marginalized fosters criminal behavior and what is really needed are expanded social opportunities and mobility through policies like affirmative action and improved public Continue Reading...
speech of a public institution's faculty member to be protected under the Pickering/Connickline of cases, what criteria must be satisfied? Do these criteria suitably balance the interests of faculty members and the institution in the higher educatio Continue Reading...
role as a public administrator is usually beset by conflicts. These conflicts, as in all organizations, stem from the vested interests of various individuals with their own agendas meeting personal objectives while working in a public institution. I Continue Reading...
Diversity Profile and Plan -for a public or non-Profit organization. Description and Overview In the current scenario, the U.S. workforce has turned out to be more diversified than any time in U.S. history. Efficiency and effectiveness today can be Continue Reading...
Free and Forced Actions Analyzing an Argument In the article, Is Determinism inconsistent with free will? Walter Stace argues that every action or event is caused; however, whereas free actions are caused by the doer's internal psychological state, Continue Reading...
