| Citizen Join Date: May 2007 Location: Detroit Michigan Gender:  Posts: 127 Country:  Level up: 87%, 13 Points needed | | Supporting Affirmative Action? Well Well Well..Hmmm Its been almost two months ago
that I posted the post above this one. However here I
am again on the same subject.
Three weeks ago I received a invite from The Eric Digest
to attend a Conference on Affirmative Action, and this
past weekend I attended the conference in Columbia
South Carolina the two days was very interesting.
The theme was Affirmative Rhetoric, Negative Action,
and it talked about African Americans and Hispanic
faculty at Predominantly White college Institutions,
(Education). The reason that the conference was
organized was to analysis the affirmative action theory,
and practice for African-American and Hispanic faculty
in a predominantly white,four year institutions of higher
education.
It also examined the history of Affirmative Action,
supply and demand issues,institutional approaches
to affirmation action, factors outside of the academy
that affect faculty employment, and case studies of
effective practices or new initiatives.
There was many Critics and Advocates of affirmative
action that focused on similar issues with debates.
Both groups often assumed that affirmative action has
led to a significant increases in the number of minority
faculty at predominatly white instutitions, but this is
NOT the case, and both groups also cite the threat
of federal action as a result of affirmative action failure.
In closing the entire conference floor was presented
with the following three main questions to bare in mind.
(1): Is Affirmative Action really Necessary? (2): What
can be done to increase Employment Opportunities for
Afirican-Americans and Hispanic Faculty? (3): Why
Haven't More Progress been made towards finding a
Solution to deal with Affirmative Action?, and (4): How
Does Affirmative Action affects the Legal Profession?
As time goes on I will touch basics whenever necessary
from the 30 pages of notes that I wrote after hearing
comments from ALL race groups. I think that the 4 questions
is interesting. |