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University Admissions: Affirmative Action vs. Diversity

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The U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled that the rigid use of racial quotas by a public university in its admission policy is unconstitutional.
Supreme Court decision: that rejected the University of Michigan undergraduate admission system for awarding extra points to minority applicants
The legal principle that a law be written to specifically fulfill only its intended goals; a factor of the legal test to determine whether a University's admission policy is constitutional.
Supreme Court decision: that upheld the University of Michigan law school admission policy, which includes race as one factor among many.
The percent of Hispanic students at WTAMU
The first factor of the legal test to determine whether a University's admission policy is constitutional.
The percent of white students at WTAMU.
The percent of African American students at WTAMU
A theory developed by Gordon W. Allport that states that under appropriate conditions interpersonal contact is one of the most effective ways to reduce prejudice between majority and minority group members.
A fixed number or percentage of minority group members or women needed to meet the requirements of affirmative action.
The interest and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own;.
The percent of Texas students at WTAMU
A group of people numbering less than 1/2 .
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Steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and business from which they have been historically excluded
Federal legislation that prohibits discrimination in hiring, firing, compensation, apprenticeships, training, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
The clause in the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution under which university admission policies are reviewed to determine whether the policy is constitutional.
The active, intentional, and ongoing engagement with diversity-in the curriculum, in the co-curriculum, and in communities (intellectual, social, cultural, geographical) with which individuals might connect-in ways that increase awareness, content knowledge, cognitive sophistication, and empathetic understanding of the complex ways individuals interact within systems and institutions”.
The percent of Asian American students at WTAMU
The percent of international students at WTAMU
The standard of judicial review used in the court cases reviewing whether race can be used in a University's admission policy.
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
A way to learn about different cultures through food.
The Texas law that was passed to promote diversity in Texas public universities.
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Individual differences (e.g. personality, learning styles, and life experiences) and group/social differences (e.g. race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, country of origin, and ability as well as cultural, political religious and other affiliations.
_________ vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that abolished the separate but equal policy in schools.
The U.S. President that signed the first executive order relating to affirmative action