What is the role of public discourse and debate in shaping the future of affirmative action?

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America, and who maintains a tribal affiliation or community attachment. Jan 31, 2019 ... And in that sense, "affirmative action" involves the mandatory use of race-conscious measures in higher education to right the enduring wrongs ... In 1965, President Johnson issued Executive Order 11246 requiring federal contractors to take affirmative action to ensure equality of employment opportunity ... SCHUETTE, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MICHIGAN v. COALITION TO DEFEND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, INTEGRATION AND IMMIGRATION RIGHTS AND FIGHT FOR EQUALITY BY ANY MEANS ... Affirmative action program means a positive program designed to ensure that a good-faith effort will be made to employ applicants and to treat employees ... Second, on Fullinwider's definition, the site of affirmative action is limited to “areas of em- ployment, education, and culture from which women and minorities ... Oct 21, 2008 ... A closer look at the definition of Affirmative Action, as defined by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,Office of the General Counsel. We also review how psychologists have examined variations in people's attitudes toward affirmative action, in part as a means for testing different theories of ... Apr 6, 2021 ... First, it is remedial: affirmative action denotes efforts that take race, sex, and national origin into account for the purpose of remedying ... A “balanced work force” means an equitable representation of persons with disabilities, minorities, and women in each level (job category) of a work force ...