Recent litigation attacking affirmative action illustrates the need for competitive college admissions programs that avoid quota systems. The "Hopwood" decision overstepped its authority by rejecting Justice Powell's opinion in "Bakke." College admission programs must defend the use of racial consciousness by separating…

This report, part of Rand's Labor and Population Studies Program, delves into sources of black/white income differentials. This report has as its purpose, the use of employment quotas as an analytical device for devising a priori notions of what the effects of government attempts to reduce employment discrimination might be. Following a formal…

Contrasts two views of affirmative action: (1) centralizing control over affirmative action with quotas and (2) making employment decisions that are consistent with sound business principles but which counteract prejudice, expand opportunities for underrepresented groups, and recognize labor market distortions that are unjustified by business…

Staff planning is discussed, including projections, on a departmental and institutionwide basis, of future staff requirements on the basis of what is known or can be realistically estimated. Program changes and availability of personnel are also considered, along with the question of tenure quotas. (MLW)

Several court cases concerning affirmative action programs both in education and in employment are reviewed in light of Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act. Implications of past court decisions are discussed, as are possible future decisions. (MC)

In recent years, military recruitment has failed, with rare exceptions, to meet its quotas. The nations's high schools have thus become battlefields for the hearts and minds of young people as recruiters dangle gifts and promises of future benefits before teenagers in an effort to fill the ranks of an all-volunteer military. In this article, the…

In response to an ambitious acquisitions effort at Trinity University's Elizabeth Coates Maddux Library during 1980/81, the library's cataloging department quintupled its monographic processing output while increasing its staff only by the addition of seven permanent and two temporary support staff members. Production standards, initially…

Following the desegregationists' victory in "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954, there came a succession of gains for desegregation, until a new phenomenon developed in "Bakke v. Regents of University of California" in 1973. Since Bakke's grades and test scores were higher than those of some minority applicants admitted to…

In this position paper on affirmative action prepared by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights it is noted that the single most important occurrence in the evolution of equal employment law was the recognition by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Supreme Court of the U.S. that the mandate of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could…

Describes a Norwegian government program to improve the status of women throughout the educational system. A quota system has been established to increase female student participation in school and university training programs, where women have historically been underrepresented. The number of female elementary and secondary teachers and…

As a result of the Bakke case, it may be expected that the use of inflexible goals and quotas based on racial preference will diminish, at least in those cases in which there has been no official finding of past discrimination. Available from Executive Enterprises Publications Co., Inc., 33 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023; $48.00/year.…

Several benefits resulting from the relaxation of the tenure-system-freeze policy are described. A modification of the system calls for administrators to allow a certain quota of appointments into the tenure system each year, rather than making all new appointments outside the tenure system. The AAUP tenure policy is considered in this regard.…

Argues that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has betrayed its historic commitment to individual liberties by defending racial preferences. It discusses the ACLU's shift to using civil liberties as a means toward the construction of an egalitarian social order, including its embrace of racial quotas. Included is a discussion of the…

Illustrates how the Supreme Court has been divided in its 1989 decisions on affirmative action. Reviews the following cases: City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co.; Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins; Wards Cove Packing Company, Inc. v. Antonio; Martin v. Wilks; Lorance v. AT&T Technologies, Inc.; Patterson v. McLean Credit Union; and Jett v. Dallas…

In the July 1999 issue of this journal (EJ 591 141) Philip T. K. Daniel and Kyle Edward Timken contend that the Fifth Circuit "Hopwood" decision overstepped its authority by rejecting Justice Powell's opinion in "Bakke." Introduces article by Michael Rosman (EA 537 542) that takes strong issue with Daniel and Timken contending…