The shortcoming with Affirmative Action is the belief that justice is based on what is fair and what isn’t. Equal treatment lives in the soul of the idea that justice equals fairness‚ which gets looked at as all people are the same‚ which is incorrect. This falsehood leads to the need for fair play. With this‚ Affirmative Action becomes nothing more than equitable measures trying to level the playing field. This leads to the round hole square peg problem when we realize we’re still staring inequality
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Affirmative action is defined as a policy that was put in place trying to take into consideration the members of the minority groups in the society or the groups that are considered as being disadvantaged due to the fact that they experience discrimination in the society currently‚ or they have suffered that before. Among the groups that had been covered by the affirmative action were the women since for the longest time‚ women had been considered as the weaker and inferior gender and thus suffered
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records‚ employee classified records‚ and all other paperwork associated with maintaining the affirmative action plan. There was an article in the Sunday paper that has made me worried about my bad record keeping habits. Also we have just received a letter from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)‚ stating that we have been selected for a full desk audit regarding our affirmative action plan. The first thing that we are going to do is perform an internal audit. The main focus for
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Affirmative action ultimately fails in its attempt to address the social imbalance caused by past discrimination because it only treats the symptoms rather than the cause. Do you agree? A growing number of equality programs‚ also known as affirmative action‚ which include quotas‚ minority scholarships and job opportunities based on diversity‚ have been proposed by governments throughout the world‚ as measures to diminish the inherited discrimination towards different groups of our society. But what
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1212140031 Purpose of higher education The purpose of higher education has been a topic of debate for many years. There was a long period when the majority agreed that higher education is the key to success‚ there is nothing to argue about that. However‚ nowadays‚ regarding having higher education as an investment‚ many people‚ especially students‚ think that what they lose is much bigger than what they gain from higher education. In other words‚ they believe that what higher education brings them does
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Affirmative action has been at the crux of national and statewide debate since its inception during the civil rights movement with lawmakers arguing for and against it countlessly over the past decades (Chrisman). Affirmative action is the process of taking gender‚ (and more politicized) race‚ and ethnicity into admissions process (Newell 381). This can occur in a variety of industries‚ one of the most controversial being postsecondary education: colleges and universities across the nation have affirmative
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HIGHER EDUCATION Name Institution: HIGHER EDUCATION Introduction Higher education in the present world has a very long history. Higher education has deep roots in the early sixth century when first monastic schools were started in Europe which later developed to the famous European university in Bologna during the period between 1088 and 1090. This is the origin of higher education with all present systems of higher education borrowing much from this first intuition and system
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Ian Fleming once said‚ “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. [But] three times is enemy action” (Ian Fleming). Not once nor twice‚ but many times throughout the history of the United States‚ and the world‚ discrimination‚ whether overt or subtle‚ has occurred and continues to take place. In the United States‚ discrimination has typically adversely affected the lives of non-white persons. People from minority groups are more likely to come from a lower socioeconomic background than their white
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Case Study: Economic Crisis and Higher Education in the United States The 2008–2012 economic failure is considered by many economists and investors to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It results in the risk of total collapse from big financial firms‚ the bailout of banks by national governments‚ and downturns in stock markets around the world. The crisis also plays a significant role in the crash of key businesses and collapse of housing market‚ results in
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Higher Education In the time I have spent in higher education‚ I have noticed that educators generally encounter three categories of students. The first category‚ about 10 percent of the student population will always succeed because they have the attitude that failure is not an option. The second group‚ another 10 percent of the population‚ will inevitably fail‚ lacking the personal motivation and drive necessary to reach educational goals. Approximately 80 percent of students make up category
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