The Importance of Affirmative Action in the 21st Century: Building Transformational Alliances with Constituencies Across the Power Structure for Scholars, Students and Staff of Color at Predominantly European American Institutions.

The purpose of this session is to reject the notion that proactive Affirmative Action strategic plans are no longer needed at predominantly European American Institutions. Data reveal an inverse relationship between creating successful strategic plans for inclusion and negative reactions from the power structure.

The Legitimacy of Anti-Affirmative Action Initiatives: Didactical Lessons for 21st Century Administrators

“In the next century, with anti-affirmative action measures on the rise, we may unconsciously be reverted back to the 1950’s and 1960’s, whereby our public schools were segregated by race. Didactical lessons for 21st century administrators will be to develop strategies that will keep schools accessible to everyone.”

Affirmative Action Endures Three Decades of Challenges: The Pursuit of Diversity on Campus

Race and affirmative action are among the most contentious issues in higher education. This talk will explore the constitutionality of affirmative action in college admissions. What principles and technicalities are dominating the discussion, and what strategies show the most promise?

Affirmative action and school choice

This paper studies a way of introducing affirmative action in the school choice problem to implement integration policies. The paper proposes the use of a natural two-step mechanism. The (equitable) first step is introduced as an adaptation of the deferred-acceptance algorithm designed by Gale and Shapley, when students are divided into two groups. The (efficient) second step captures the idea of exchanging places inherent to Gale's top trading cycle.

Consultations on the affirmative action statement of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

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Affirmative action and equal employment : a guidebook for employers /

Includes bibliographical references.

Affirmative action in Salt Lake's criminal justice agencies : a report /

Includes bibliographical references.

Federal affirmative action efforts in mid-America /

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Affirmative action in employment in Oklahoma : a report of the Oklahoma Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

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Affirmative action programs.

A collection of photocopies of documents, chiefly from university libraries, assembled by the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center, and accompanied by SPEC flyer no. 67, Sept. 1980.