Recent Affirmative Action Articles page 5

Baltimore Sun - Towson's decision to tinker with its admissions standards was criticized by some education experts, who said the university was using SAT scores as an "affirmative action" program for white males, who tend to score highest on the test. Admissions ...

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Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - On development, President Kibaki said his Government has continued to allocate resources to all parts of the country and taking affirmative action towards the improvement of areas, which were previously marginalized. The Head of State reiterated his ...

Politics.co.uk - The idea of favouring black and ethnic minorities when recruiting for the police force has been dismissed by Metropolitan Police commission Sir Ian Blair. The suggestion was made by the president of the National Black Police Association (NBPA) last ...

Politics.co.uk - Police forces in England and Wales should actively recruit black officers in an effort to deal with crime more effectively within ethnic minority communities, a senior sergeant has argued. The suggestion from Keith Jarrett of the National Black ...

Politics.co.uk - The Home Office has rejected calls for the Race Relations Act to be amended to enable police forces to actively target black and ethnic minorities for recruitment. This follows a speech from black police sergeant Keith Jarrett, who argued non-white ...

Seattle Times - When County Executive Ron Sims was lobbying council members for his updated affirmative-action plan, she declared her support even before Sims' chief of staff, John Arthur Wilson, had a chance to extol its merits, Wilson recalled. When Sims and the ...

U-Wire.com - After successfully backing Proposal 2, a ballot initiative passed in November that banned affirmative action in Michigan, the American Civil Rights Institute is gearing up to place similar measures before voters in Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma ...

EURweb - Further, some people hold strange ideas about Affirmative Action, as though it is being abused and as though it is abusing Blacks. Their argument is that Blacks who enter college through assistance based on their skin color feel inferior. My ...

Boston Globe - He served on the Michigan Civil Rights Commission before coming to Washington in 1965 and eventually directed the affirmative action program of the Federal Reserve system before retiring in 1977. Wherever he went, Mr. Layton had a way of bringing ...