04-08-2015, 11:54 AM
If this student were a white woman, then we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Who are the Intended Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action? [NC State University Affirmative Action in Employment Training]
Nation & World | White students at black colleges: a course of a different color | Seattle Times Newspaper
This is not related to colleges. Discrimination in the workplace still exists even with AA.
Employers' Replies to Racial Names
People have this misconception that it's easy to get into a government job if you're a female minority. There are really only two things that great increase your chances of getting a federal government job: veterans' preference points and Indian preference for jobs in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. I'm a black woman with a master's degree who has applied to hundreds of federal government jobs and only received one interview after passing two exams for one position. I scored high on other civil service exams, but was not able to compete with applicants who received veterans' preference points. I have no problem with veterans' preference; I'm just describing how the system really works.
Quote:Who are the Intended Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action?
Contrary to popular belief, African Americans are not the sole, or even the primary, beneficiaries of affirmative action. Rather, a wide range of groups have benefited from these policies which promote equality by directing resources, outreach and other opportunities to targeted under represented communities.
These groups include women, Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Asians/Pacific Islanders, and American Indians/Alaskan Natives. Other underrepresented groups include veterans, disabled veterans, veterans who served on active duty during a war or campaign, veterans who participated in a military operation for which an armed services medal was awarded, pursuant to Executive Order 12985; and recently, separated veterans.
According to the United States Labor Department, the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action are white women. The Department of Labor estimated that 6 million women workers are in higher occupational classifications today than they would have been without affirmative action policies.
Who are the Intended Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action? [NC State University Affirmative Action in Employment Training]
Quote:Most of the influx has come at public institutions, which receive funding from federal and state governments. Such colleges are pressured to increase their white enrollment — even as affirmative-action requirements at some other universities are waning.
"It is an odd and dubious legality that institutions that have not excluded anyone" are now forced to recruit white students, said Lezli Baskerville of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Education.
Tennessee State University, for instance, was at one point under court order to increase its non-black enrollment to 50 percent. The court eventually dropped that requirement, and the school has agreed to earmark $924,000 a year for scholarships to white students.
Three universities in Mississippi — Jackson State, Mississippi Valley State and Alcorn State — must increase white enrollments to at least 10 percent and maintain that level for three years before receiving a portion of $524 million in state funds for school improvements provided in a federal court settlement, officials said. An effort to overturn that settlement reached in Ayers v. Fordice, a landmark desegregation case for colleges, was rejected Oct.18 by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nation & World | White students at black colleges: a course of a different color | Seattle Times Newspaper
This is not related to colleges. Discrimination in the workplace still exists even with AA.
Quote:The results indicate large racial differences in callback rates to a phone line with a voice mailbox attached and a message recorded by someone of the appropriate race and gender. Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback. This would suggest either employer prejudice or employer perception that race signals lower productivity.
The 50 percent gap in callback rates is statistically very significant, Bertrand and Mullainathan note in Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination (NBER Working Paper No. 9873).
Employers' Replies to Racial Names
People have this misconception that it's easy to get into a government job if you're a female minority. There are really only two things that great increase your chances of getting a federal government job: veterans' preference points and Indian preference for jobs in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. I'm a black woman with a master's degree who has applied to hundreds of federal government jobs and only received one interview after passing two exams for one position. I scored high on other civil service exams, but was not able to compete with applicants who received veterans' preference points. I have no problem with veterans' preference; I'm just describing how the system really works.
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