Discriminatory Attitudes Towards Minority Students

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Racial preference has indisputably favored Caucasian males in society. Recently this dynamic has been debated in all aspects of life, including college admission. Racial bias has intruded on the students’ rights to being treated fairly. Admitting students on merit puts the best individuals into the professional environment. A university’s unprejudiced attitude towards race in applicants eliminates biases, empowers universities to harness the full potential of students’ intellect, and gives students an equal chance at admission.

Racism isn’t hating someone because of their race. Prejudice is not a misconception of who a person is. Racism is being prejudiced because a person believes their race is superior; and, prejudice is a preconceived opinion not based on any prior experience. In other words, racism is when a person has a preconceived opinion about another person because they feel their race is superior. Racism and prejudice are probably two of the most talked about and controversial words 60 years ago and still today. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and Martin L. King marched on Selma they didn’t think we would still be in such a place today; we are in a place where people are not allowed to be themselves without facing judgment. This is the same prejudice and racism members of society face in schools, by students and educators which limits their ability to progress in a world full of competition and rise above what demographics say they are destined to become. As the great Charles Albert Tindley once said, “We Shall Overcome!”

The concept of race based admission policy is used in colleges to create diversity in campuses, but to some it is another kind of discrimination. According to Stacy Teicher Khadaroo staff writer of “A sticky week for college admissions as affirmative action debate heats up; After a leaked Justice Department document, tensions roil over the use of race at top universities such as Harvard. But many other selective schools may be quietly shifting away from the practice,” top colleges uphold the same commitment to create diversity and using race in admission to accomplish it instead of merit or income. Nonetheless, Department of Justice spokeswomen, Sarah Isgur Flores, is willing to investigate the effects of affirmative action, "The posting

There can be many factors that determine whether or not you can get into a college. Do you have the grades, are you involved in your community, have you been convicted. Many questions like those listed above have been commonly asked to applicants who apply for major colleges universities. However, you are never asked your ethnicity during an interview, usually they give you an application to fill out and they have a space that allows you to check which race you are. Some people feel as though they may have been discriminated against because of their race or ethnicity. It may be true for some, but not all cases are alike, in the sense that racial discrimination in college applicants

Race relations on college campuses seems negligible on the surface of prestigious universities and while the populous of these institutions are portrayed as open-minded students, there is, at the least, one consistent problem throughout colleges, especially in the south of the United States. Within these institutions that claim to have liberal educations, why is there a lack of black members within the Greek life at Baylor University? While there is a good amount of black students at Baylor, these black students are not well represented within the traditional Greek life. Although there are historically black fraternities and sororities known as the Divine Nine, the more prominent fraternities and sororities at Baylor University lack black

Many racial minority applicants to higher education and jobs have to contend with stereotypes of their group as incompetent. Studies have highlighted a racial gap in which Black applicants receive worse evaluations than White applicants with identical resumes (e.g., Betrand & Mullainathan, 2002). One way that applicants can bolster their applications is through featuring awards and honors, which might be diversity relevant or not. In this work, we examine two types of awards, identity-signaling and identity neutral awards. Identity-signaling awards are granted by identity-based organizations and are meant to signal competence in contexts where group members are underrepresented. Importantly, they offer information about the social

Where do students begin their field of study and where do they end up? What accounts for these shifts? Who do students feel they can relate to on a consistent basis?

In order to explain why minority groups are subject to prejudice and discrimination, a proper understanding of these terms is needed. Prejudice is defined as a mindset that someone has towards another, usually it is a negative view. Discrimination, however, is the action someone plays out based on their prejudice. As you can see, prejudice is a mindset while discrimination is an action. One can understand based on the word “minority” that individuals in this kind of group are the targets towards these prejudiced thoughts and actions. Since individuals have the belief that they are better than others, they often pre judge someone based on their looks, social class, race, or even gender. Consequently, people in these “minority” groups are viewed

Research has shown that there are many perceptions amongst faculty and students, especially amongst minority students as to what factors are contributing to drop-outs in higher education and what should be done to retain minority students. Some have expressed economic disadvantages to family history as to why minorities have the highest rate of discontinuing college after their freshman/ first year of college. Contrary to research conducted within the last decade, even though in comparison to high school diplomas, college degrees have taken a back seat in spite of the many efforts of institutions, faculty, and stakeholders.

In 1994, two teachers named David Levin and Michael Feinberg introduced a new style of education – the Knowledge is Power Program, or KIPP. They created the first KIPP school in Houston, Texas to better educate and motivate low-income, minority students. Eventually, their small grassroots idea grew into a network of 183 charter schools across the United States. Levin and Feinberg’s goal to close the gap between minority and white students is reflected in the fact that 87% of their students come from lower-class families and 95% are African American or Latino (“KIPP”).

It has been very interesting to learn about different paradigms and topics about sociology. It is very intriguing because all the topics we cover in class are used and we personally see it in the real world, it is not like calculus class in which we will most likely never see the material again. In my opinion, all of the topics we have discussed in class have been very interesting. The issue I would like to talk more about in this class would be about institutional racism, and prejudice in this country. Speaking about racism and prejudice sometimes turns into some type of screaming match, making some people not want to talk about it. I think it is best to speak about these things, especially in a college level sociology course, and see how

it is important to be informed on this topic because, being prejudice is something that happens everyday and needs to stop. Prejudice actions affect many students at school. In the first place, being prejudice causes bullying. Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying every year. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school everyday because of bullying. 1 in 10 students drop out of school because of repeated bullying. Lastly 90% of 4th - 8th graders report being victims of bullying. Next, being bullied can cause depression. About 30% of students report depression frequently after being bullied. About 11% of students report serious thoughts of suicide and suicide attempts. Many teens are often secretive about their social life and bullying,

There has been a lot of discrimination against many minority for centuries. People judging us on our skin color, our culture, and even how we look. This creates violates and haterius between us. We can’t let this get to us or make us feel bad about self. This should give us the courage to come together and come up with a way to solve this problem without no violates. When we come together no one can stop us. All of you young individuals have to come together and each other because you are our future. Your action can change how people look at us in the future. According to Booker. T Washington,”No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success.

Opponents of the idea that studying abroad is helpful to Saudi students claim that this initiative is detrimental to Saudi students because they face various kinds of discrimination. Jenny Lee and Charles Rice in “Welcome to America? International Student Perceptions of Discrimination” (2007) state that after the 9/11, different institutes report a declined in international students' enrollment in American schools and its reasons which not have been seen for 35 years. During and after the event of 9/11, most of the western society’s look toward Arab and Muslims taken oriented path toward racism and discrimination. More than 15% of the enrollment drop came from Saudi Arabia’s students who maybe face fear, discrimination and hostility toward