Gratz v. Bollinger

UT Austin’s Office of Admissions – Personal Connections as a Consultant I selected UT Austin’s Office of Admissions for my consultancy project due to the unique opportunity to give back in a way I thought would be helpful. I also hoped to utilize what I learned to increase my understanding of its challenges. My career in higher education began with UT Austin’s Office of Admissions in 2006. After six years, I requested a role with greater responsibility, believing I needed more space to grow than

Stand for Affirmative Action America has made progress on the issue of inequality but there are still unresolved conflicts. Slavery has long ended but bias against African Americans still exists even today. Affirmative action was created to deal with this issue. The purpose of affirmative action is to encourage diversity among everyone and also to give people of color equal opportunities. It "allows university admissions officials or employers to take race, ethnicity, or gender into account when

“No, it’s not me, it’s you… What’s wrong with you? Why, nothing. You have everything we are looking for, it’s just…you’re black…” First established in 1961, Affirmative action (in the United States) was/is a practice in which the purpose is to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women (Merriam Webster). Fast forward to today’s society and what is affirmative action now? Considering the prevalence of diversity in the workplace and in educational facilities

Contemporary Moral Issues Philosophy 215 Fall 2014 Instructor: Valerie Philbrick-DeBrava Office: James Blair 132 Email: vaphilbrickdeb@wm.edu Office Hours: MWF 9:00-10:00 Phone: (804) 642-4621 Course Times: MWF 10:00-10:50 (01) Course Location: James Blair 201 MWF 11:00-11:50 (02) Course Description: Philosophy 215 is designed to improve our understanding of the moral issues our twenty-first-century society faces. As both a survey of

in the research may not the true equivalent of what the British mean by ‘striver’. Perhaps the researchers should re-examine the data to seem if a true demographic equivalent exists. Since public schools in the US don’t usually have the comprehensive v grammar dichotomy, maybe there is no true equivalent. Also, the existence of magnet, charter, and parochial schools in the US may mean that the American counterparts to strivers are not necessarily co-located in the same schools. Bernard Schuster Arrive2

2003, groups of college students held rallies and protests, in support of and opposing affirmative action, leading up to legal briefs concerning the University of Michigan’s admissions policy were due to the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Grutter v.

CDT Jordan Teevens CPT Mann Section E EN101 9 September 2016 Rough Draft “By our unpaid labor and suffering, we have earned the right to the soil, many times over and over, and now we are determined to have it” (Coates). In “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author begins his article with this quote to ensure that his audience has a different perspective about the case for African American reparations. There is no denying that since the inception of the United States of America

Affirmative Action: A Road to Discrimination and Prejudice Affirmative action: these words bring to mind many different things to many different people. To some it is a leveler of the playing field and a right for past injustices, but to others it is a tool used to cause reverse discrimination and continues prejudices. Affirmative action was born into a time when our country was attempting to provide equality for all and was only intended to be a temporary measure to bring about this equality

The affirmative action case I chose for a case study involved the case of Abigail Fisher verses the University of Texas (UT), this suit was originally filed during the second quarter of 2008 after her application for admission into the college was rejected. Her suit alleged her admission was rejected on the grounds of her “race” which was a violation of the equal protection clause found in the Fourteenth Amendment. This case would go completely through the judicial system in the State of Texas, Fifth

A Look into the Use of Affirmative Action in College Admissions A journey the majority of high school students experience is researching potential colleges. It was during this search that I was introduced to the concept of affirmative action, and I became interested in how it could affect my acceptance to college. On one hand, I was ecstatic because being a minority could give me an advantage when applying to universities. However, I also wanted to receive the acceptance based on my merit not my