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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Affirmative action programs"”.
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Access and equity issues at UCLA in a post-affirmative action era
… and African American students in a post affirmative action era at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Data was collected and analyzed from the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) from 1989-2008 it examines admission trends of students from the fore …
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The impact of court and legislative decisions on policies and practices regarding race-targeted financial aid at selected public universities in Virginia
There have been numerous legal challenges to affirmative action programs in education. Two legal decisions that have directly affected race-targeted financial aid programs in Virginia schools are the court ruling in <u>Podberesky v. Kirwan</u>, (1994) and the Virginia statute: Participation in or …
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Model-based Analysis of Diversity in Higher Education
… students in private universities and those with affirmative action programs is higher than in other institutions. Overall, this dissertation provides new insights into improving diversity within the science workforce at different organizational levels by using industrial and systems engineering …
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State Mandated Affirmative Action Requirements on Independent Higher Education Institutions in Iowa and the Characteristics of the Affirmative Action Coordinators
… to identify those states which had mandated affirmative for independent colleges and universities and to examine the salient characteristics of the affirmative action coordinators in independent higher-education institutions in Iowa. Procedure: Two questionnaires were used: one was sent to …
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One route to affirmative action: executive orders and equal employment opportunities for blacks, 1941-1965
… court decisions, social change, and the actions of civil rights groups, contributed to an expansion of the concept. The result of the evolution was affirmative action, the name applied to the government efforts to end discrimination in employment through implantation of programs designed …
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A study of women's noninstitutional educational programs in Saskatoon
… date about women's noninstitutional educational programs in Saskatoon, Canada. These data were collected to provide information about the length of time programs were in operation and who initiated them, problems that the programs experienced, and characteristics of the programs' client …
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Guttersnipes' and 'Eliterates': City College in the Popular Imagination
… "Harvard of the Poor" and birthplace of affirmative action programs and "Open Admissions" in higher education. I examine five key moments between 1940 and 2000 when the college dominated the headlines and draw on journalistic accounts, memoirs, guidebooks, fiction, poetry, drama, songs, …
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The Limits to Catholic Racial Liberalism: The Villanova Encounter with Race, 1940-1985
… of integration. Finally, during the 1980s, as affirmative action programs based on race in higher education came under fire, Catholic racial liberalism was replaced by the ideology of diversity. Therefore, I argue that the rise and fall of Catholic racial liberalism on Villanova's campus …
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Is the composition of staff within Tygerberg administration in terms of employment equity, representative of the demographics of the Western Cape from 05/01/2000 - 31/12/2001?
… equal access to resources in a proactive, affirmative manner. This can be achieved in one of the two ways, either through equal employment opportunity or Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action is a specific intervention directed toward ensuring that employment opportunities are created by …
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Examining Political Orientation, Attributional style, and Affirmative Action
… attributional style, emotion, and support for Affirmative Action were investigated. Questionnaire data were collected from a university sample in southern California. The results indicate a positive correlation between political orientation and attributional style. A ,negative correlation was …
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The influence of capacity building on employment equity implementation and employee performance : a case of a private company in the financial industry
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Resource Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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Affirmative action policy and practice in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development with particular respect to gender
… and Constitutional Development with respect to affirmative action and employment equity, and particularly with respect to the promotion of greater gender equity in employment, especially at the management levels.
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