Download or read book The Institutionalization of Affirmative Action at the University of Massachusetts at Boston written by Barbara K. Curry and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Racism in Contemporary America written by Meyer Weinberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racism in Contemporary America is the largest and most up-to-date bibliography available on current research on the topic. It has been compiled by award-winning researcher Meyer Weinberg, who has spent many years writing and researching contemporary and historical aspects of racism. Almost 15,000 entries to books, articles, dissertations, and other materials are organized under 87 subject-headings. In addition, there are author and ethnic-racial indexes. Several aids help the researcher access the materials included. In addition to the subject organization of the bibliography, entries are annotated whenever the title is not self-explanatory. An author index is followed by an ethnic-racial index which makes it convenient to follow a single group through any or all the subject headings. This is a source book for the serious study of America's most enduring problem; as such it will be of value to students and researchers at all levels and in most disciplines.

Download or read book The Evolvement of Affirmative Action Policies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst a Public Flagship Academic Institution written by Chuks Chijioke Okoli and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affirmative action in college admissions has been losing support in the United States for some time. New "colorblind" methods are gaining ground among the proliferation of lawsuits and political initiatives regarding race in college admissions. A key issue among proponents and opponents in the public debate is whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify considerations of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities, or whether diversity can be achieved by admitting lower income students, without considering race. Many public and private universities adopted a diversity rationale as their primary justification for promoting affirmative action programs. Nowhere can the issue of diversity be seen more clearly as a contentious, heated, and national debate than among the multi-campus state university systems. In the late 1990s, the increasingly hostile legal environment and string of legal challenges to race-sensitive admissions influenced University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) to rethink its diversity strategy. In March 1999, the university announced a revised admissions process to give consideration to an applicant's income and geography, and to de-emphasize considerations of race. Since that time, minimal research literature examined the impact of UMass Amherst's revamped admission strategies, which substitutes class for race as regards minority enrollment. This case study focuses on the evolution of affirmative action programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a distinguished flagship academic institution in New England. It describes how it evolved and where it stands today (2016). A qualitative case study, using document analysis as the assessment method on affirmative action policies and procedures at UMass Amherst, was performed. Critical Race Theory (CRT) was the theoretical framework applied to the study. Findings show that since the 1960s and early 1970s, the university designed and implemented a long array of initiatives to improve the diversity climate for students, faculty, and staff. The firm commitment of various Chancellors, supporting the values of diversity and inclusion is notable, including the work done by various Diversity Committees. During the period 1999-2016, there still remained an amount of minority student underrepresentation, particularly African-American students, which raises questions about the university's choice of approaches and strategies throughout the years, as well as its effectiveness in resolving issues of campus diversity and inclusion. Students still view the work of the university administration as insufficient practices and policies when it comes to affirmative action. The study concludes that banning race-based admission policies does have a negative enrollment effect particularly on African-American students. Greater efforts are still needed to increase access and opportunity for African-American students. It is noted that although UMass Amherst eliminated race from its admission policies, enrollment for Asian students increased by 83% from fall 1996 (1,113) to fall 2015 (2,040). Similarly, enrollment for Hispanic/Latino students increased by 54% from fall 1996 (779) to fall 2015 (1,203). Despite the benefits of diverse student cohorts documented in the literature, the underrepresentation of African-American students still exists. Patterns of inequitable distribution of access to African-American students constituted a considerable challenge to UMass Amherst. Future studies are encouraged to identify other organizational and programmatic factors that promote a compelling interest of diversity within flagship universities.

Download or read book The Implementation of Affirmative Action at a Selected Massachusetts Community College written by Dana A. Mohler-Faria and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thirty Years of Affirmative Action at Harvard Medical School written by Alane Karen Shanks and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Report on Affirmative Action at Boston University written by Boston University. Affirmative Action Program and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Implementation of Affirmative Action in Academic Affairs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst written by Laurence R. Marcus and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Instituting Enduring Innovations written by Barbara K. Curry and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1992-11-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by ERIC in cooperation with the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Download or read book Law and Equal Opportunity written by Leon H. Mayhew and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Law and Equal Opportunity".

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Download or read book The Politics of Affirmative Action written by Carol Lee Bacchi and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book makes a major contribution to an issue of central concern to feminists. It is well written, thoroughly researched and thoughtfully argued. Wide-ranging and comprehensive in scope, the book is carefully structured, using different countries to illustrate the specific ways in which affirmative action is co-opted and contained in practice' - Jeanne Gregory, Middlesex University " This timely and incisive book brings a theoretical lens to the debates around affirmative action. It presents a comparative analysis of those countries reputed to be leading the way in policies for women - the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden, The Netherlands and Norway. Carol Lee Bacchi draws upon current social and feminist theory to present a lucid analysis of the implementation of reform. Taking account of the particular historical context of affirmative action policies, she considers why expressed commitment to affirmative action for women has failed to translate into meaningful reform. She describes how conceptual and identity categories are given meanings and positioned in debate in ways which work to contain the effects of the reform. Bacchi concludes that proponents of affirmative action need to direct more attention to the political uses of categories than to their abstract content, and to concentrate their efforts upon exposing the effects of category politics.

Download or read book Affirmative Action Handbook and Guide written by Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.). Affirmative Action Office and published by . This book was released on 1972* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race Policy and Multiracial Americans written by Kathleen Odell Korgen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race Policy and Multiracial Americans looks at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the USA and how they can be used to promote racial justice. This much-needed book is essential reading for anyone interested in race relations and social justice.

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Download or read book The Future of Affirmative Action written by K.T. Leicht and published by JAI Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized into three sections, this volume contains ten research papers addressing various aspects of research on affirmative action worldwide. Themes addressed include the legal, organizational, and historical context of affirmative action; the complex interaction between the workings of labor markets, organizational decisions by human resource managers, and national contexts as supporters of and resisters to affirmative action; and the experiences of social scientists, legal scholars, and a college administrator in dealing with arguments for and against affirmative action in practical contexts. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR