This one just keeps popping up in my mind and it drives me crazy!!! What do you think of affirmative action? What are it's strengths and weaknesses? What changes would you like to see made in regard to affirmative action?
When my Dad was hired at the college at which he is now a professor, there were over 300 applicants to his job. Without Affirmative Action, do you really think that rich suburban white college would have hired a Filipino English teacher that went to Berkley? Was my dad the best person for the job. I think so. He regularly gets offers from other universities to go teach there, he created the Masters of Arts and Liberal Studies program at his college (and was the former president of the national MALS chapter), and he regularly gets asked to speak around the world. In my oppinion, Affirmative action most of the time simply makes companies and schools look harder to find the many trully exceptional minority candidates out there. The system doesn't work perfectly, but at least in concept, I like the Idea. Diversity should be a goal in and of itself. Just think how much better your job or education would be if it was trully diverse. People of different races and cultures can and should learn a lot from each other. Affirmitave action makes that possible. I think that Affirmative action only results in companies hiring less quallified individuals if that company is too lazy to find a highly qualified minority. What changes would I make....I don't know, let me get back to you on that.
You nailed it on the head--laziness. So many companies are lazy and just try to make themselves look good by hiring minorities. Once again, I don't think it's the theory or the legislation that is the problem, but the execution. As long as employers and universities continue to try to fill virtual "quotas" instead of finding exceptional minorities to enrich their environment, affirmative action will leave a bad taste in my mouth. Why shouldn't a man complain when I get a job over him even though I have no experience and he is better educated and experienced? Why shouldn't I, in turn then, be insulted that I was given a handout job instead of one that I could be certain that I earned? There are so many problems that have come out of affirmative action and none of them were really intended.
On the flipside, do you think that the problems that have arisen from NCLB were intended? The problem is rarely in the idea, the catalyst. More frequently it is in the imperfect, and human, execution. In a world where the goal is to get MORE no matter what, people and corporations, including schools, will do whatever it takes to get MORE the easiest way possible. This generally serves to defeat the purpose of well intended acts such as affirmative action and NCLB.
I like what everybody has said here. I agree that even with things like NCLB and the Patriot act, that a lot of people don't really anticipate problems before they arise, or legislators don't really read what they are voting on. With AA, I think that if employers actually cared about diversity, which would make their workforce better in the long run, we wouldn't have problems with quallifications. Some employers, however, take the easy way out. Ideally, AA forces diversity, and then employers will see the benefits in the long run. Of course, if all companies really saw the beauty of diversity, we wouldn't need Affirmative Action. In California, it seems, Affirmative Action doesn't seem to be as big of a deal because the people here generally accept the values of diversity. Even when we passed a proposition saying that Universities didn't have to follow Affirmative action, it seems that most of them kept their commitment to diversity and didn't change their admission procedures.
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When my Dad was hired at the college at which he is now a professor, there were over 300 applicants to his job. Without Affirmative Action, do you really think that rich suburban white college would have hired a Filipino English teacher that went to Berkley? Was my dad the best person for the job. I think so. He regularly gets offers from other universities to go teach there, he created the Masters of Arts and Liberal Studies program at his college (and was the former president of the national MALS chapter), and he regularly gets asked to speak around the world. In my oppinion, Affirmative action most of the time simply makes companies and schools look harder to find the many trully exceptional minority candidates out there. The system doesn't work perfectly, but at least in concept, I like the Idea. Diversity should be a goal in and of itself. Just think how much better your job or education would be if it was trully diverse. People of different races and cultures can and should learn a lot from each other. Affirmitave action makes that possible. I think that Affirmative action only results in companies hiring less quallified individuals if that company is too lazy to find a highly qualified minority.
What changes would I make....I don't know, let me get back to you on that.
Aaron.
You nailed it on the head--laziness. So many companies are lazy and just try to make themselves look good by hiring minorities. Once again, I don't think it's the theory or the legislation that is the problem, but the execution. As long as employers and universities continue to try to fill virtual "quotas" instead of finding exceptional minorities to enrich their environment, affirmative action will leave a bad taste in my mouth. Why shouldn't a man complain when I get a job over him even though I have no experience and he is better educated and experienced? Why shouldn't I, in turn then, be insulted that I was given a handout job instead of one that I could be certain that I earned? There are so many problems that have come out of affirmative action and none of them were really intended.
On the flipside, do you think that the problems that have arisen from NCLB were intended? The problem is rarely in the idea, the catalyst. More frequently it is in the imperfect, and human, execution. In a world where the goal is to get MORE no matter what, people and corporations, including schools, will do whatever it takes to get MORE the easiest way possible. This generally serves to defeat the purpose of well intended acts such as affirmative action and NCLB.
Jen
I like what everybody has said here. I agree that even with things like NCLB and the Patriot act, that a lot of people don't really anticipate problems before they arise, or legislators don't really read what they are voting on. With AA, I think that if employers actually cared about diversity, which would make their workforce better in the long run, we wouldn't have problems with quallifications. Some employers, however, take the easy way out. Ideally, AA forces diversity, and then employers will see the benefits in the long run. Of course, if all companies really saw the beauty of diversity, we wouldn't need Affirmative Action. In California, it seems, Affirmative Action doesn't seem to be as big of a deal because the people here generally accept the values of diversity. Even when we passed a proposition saying that Universities didn't have to follow Affirmative action, it seems that most of them kept their commitment to diversity and didn't change their admission procedures.
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