Word: racial
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...trends have pretty much maintained the same track as it has previously. Over a period of time, women have slowly increased their representation,” Tsapogas said. “Some of the racial, ethnic groups have not done as well as women have done. There’s been gradual progress there, too, but it hasn’t been as fast as it has been for women...
...higher education, the benefits of affirmative action programs are twofold: They act as a corrective to socioeconomic and racial disparities in access to opportunity, and also create more diverse (and thus constructive) educational environments. Neither of these is a benefit that colleges, universities, and school districts in Michigan and throughout the nation can afford to lose...
...Chang, an associate dean at Loyola Marymount University, and Alexander W. Astin, director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, a diverse campus environment “contributes to the student’s academic development, satisfaction with college, level of cultural awareness, and commitment to promoting racial understanding,” and is also associated with higher student GPAs and better overall student satisfaction...
Finally, it can often be helpful to take an individual’s race or gender into account in deciding who to hire for a job. It would be foolhardy for the Detroit Police Department to ignore its city’s racial tensions when hiring new officers or for the state to ignore gender when hiring rape counselors to aid victimized citizens...
...Ford would be historic, as he would be the first black Senator elected in the South in more than a century. Racial politics became a subject in the race last month when Republicans ran an ad attacking Ford for his attendance at a Playboy Superbowl party that included a blond white woman saying "Harold, call me' - which some Democrats said was an attempt to play on concerns about interracial dating. Corker himself denounced the ad, but the campaign has only gotten nastier and more heated as Election Day has approached...