In response to concerns about the affirmative action efforts of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), the General Accounting Office examined ADAMHA's personnel management and equal employment opportunity issues. Issues examined included the representation of minorities in the ADAMHA work force, especially at…

This paper reports on the development of a "change index" and its application in evaluating the relative performance of individual doctorate-granting universities in hiring and promoting women faculty. Employee data collected in the annual Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) by the National Center for Educational…

Sex bias in performance evaluations has been found in laboratory research as well as in a variety of organizational settings. To explore the effects of hiring practices on performance evaluations and other personnel decisions in an experimental analog of affirmative action, 154 female undergraduates rated a fictitious male or female college…

In these remarks, William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, discusses American civil rights in the light of past and present Federal policy. A review of constitutional provisions, legislation, and court litigation reveals how policy has variously provided for equality and perpetuated…

Tarrant County Junior College (TCJC) was organized in 1965. It adopted its first affirmative action plan in 1973 and has had a plan ever since. Although neither controversial nor wholeheartedly accepted by everyone, the plan has worked. In 1973, 13.9% of TCJC's employees were minority group members; in 1985, there are 1,280 employees with 21.4%…

This paper identifies major changes in the area of civil rights which have been instituted during President Reagan's term in office and discusses their implications for Hispanics. Section I briefly outlines central themes of the Administration's attitude towards civil rights. Questions about their negative impact on Hispanics are raised. The next…

This paper discusses two federal programs designed to promote equal employment opportunities for women. It analyzes the impact of the federal contract compliance program (affirmative action) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on the absolute level of the earning of black and white working women over the 1967-1974 period. It was found…

Discusses a study that analyzed responses to fictitious position-wanted ads of female and minority candidates for administrative positions. (JT)

Three unresolved affirmative action admissions problems are examined: the role of students in admissions decisions, the validity of racial quotas, and to what extent applicants are entitled to due process protection of the fourteenth ammendment. Included is a synopsis of DeFunis v. Odegaard, which upheld a reverse discrimination claim. (JT)

Traces resistance to affirmative action in universities, noting that the federal agencies have backed off from their tough stance, and concluding that, "With the exception of an increase in lower-level employment and the very few successfully negotiated class action suits, the status of women in the university has changed little." (JT)

The paper focuses on the relationship between educational research and educational policy, specifically the influence that "affirmative actions" in the policy arena can have not only on the nature of educational research but also on the kinds of participants (e.g., minority persons and women) in the educational research enterprise. A…

Issues regarding the equal employment of white ethnic Americans are discussed in this presentation by the Executive Director of the Polish American Congress. It is held that Federal efforts to prohibit discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, and national origin are actually only acting to overcome discrimination based on race, color, and…

In this report, the activities of a conference on Asian Americans and Asians in America are summarized and papers presented are reprinted. Topics considered in the papers include education, employment, affirmative action, identity, pluralism, Chinese cultural background, teaching of English, cross-cultural situations, development of comprehensive…

The participants in this discussion in addition to Ralph Winter, the moderator, include Owen Fiss and Richard Posner, professors of law; Vera Glaser and William Raspberry, newspaper columnists; and Paul Seabury, professor of political science. These specialists address various legal, ethical and practical issues related to the elimination of…

Minority representation in the graduate and professional schools is not in parity with the proportion of minorities in the overall population at this point in the history of American higher education. There are definite reasons for the lack of participation, reasons that have a profound philosophical, sociological, and economic basis. These…