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Challenges and advances of implementing affirmative action policies within graduate nursing programs. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health
de Oliveira Navarro da Conceição Y   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fisher v. UT Austin - Contextualized Brief

open access: yes, 2014
Contextualization of the 2013 Supreme Court case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, in which Abigail Fisher was denied admission.
Sobotka, Lauren H.
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A Crowded Room or the Perfect Fit? Exploring Affirmative Action Treatment in College and University Admissions for Self-Identified LGBT Individuals

open access: yes, 2015
This Article explores affirmative action treatment for self-identified LGBT individuals in college and university admissions. This Article seeks to explain that while granting affirmative action treatment to self-identified students in the admission ...
Brown, Herbert C., Jr.
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The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police [PDF]

open access: yes
Arguably the most aggressive affirmative action program ever implemented in the United States was a series of court-ordered racial hiring quotas imposed on municipal police departments.
Justin McCrary
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Color-Blind Affirmative Action [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding the consequences of the widespread adoption of race-neutral alternatives' to conventional racial affirmative action policies in college admissions.
Glenn C. Loury   +2 more
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An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry [PDF]

open access: yes
The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years.
David G. Blanchflower, Jon Wainwright
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