Dc Personal Statement

So when Abigail Fisher wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps and attend the university she would have to make it on her own, with no special consideration (Nieli, 2013). The state of Texas has enacted the Top Ten Percent Law that gives students graduating in the Top Ten Percent of their high school automatic admission to any Texas public school. Unfortunately, Fisher failed to meet this requirement, and hoped to get admitted through this alternative admission track that takes academic achievement, extracurricular activities, and numerous other things including race and ethnicity. Considering her GPA and SAT scores were higher than most of the students admitted in this fashion, she felt she would easily gain admission this way. When that didn’t happen she felt if she had been a black or Hispanic student and had her same credentials she would have easily been accepted. Fishers’ attorney argued that the University had not been in compliance with the constitutional review. (Nieli, 2013)After losing two appeals, both in the district court and circuit court they appealed to the Supreme Court. The University of Texas gave great transparency in its admission process and gave other universities an outline on how to justify the need for their Affirmative Action Policies. In regards to their policy the University of Texas highlighted the need to deal with students feeling racially isolated or alone. In 2013, the time of Fishers’ litigation African American Students made up less than 5% while Latinos made up about 15% of the student body as compared to Latinos 38% state representation (Hawkins, 2016)Texas’s argued institutions need to leverage the educational benefit of diversity, the need for polices such as affirmative action exists as a result of the lingering effect of discrimination, and that these policies are helping the underrepresented minority groups

Throughout my time in the military and in civil service, I have cultivated a strong business expertise. Educationally, I have an undergraduate and a graduate degree in business management. One of the actions of a Cemetery Director at any facility is to review and verify the accuracy of all processes to determine if the cemetery is operating in accordance with NCA policies and directives. My challenge as the director of LINC was to improve cemetery accountability and adherence to NCA policies and directives by updating and revising all written internal standard operating procedure and policies. I focused on providing the cemetery staff with accurate procedural practices, tools, and equipment to accomplish their daily tasks. During my review,

I have long respected the law’s ability to shape everyday experiences. As part of my Gifted Support project in the fifth grade, I wrote a report about Brown v. Board of Education. At that young age, I had heard some of my parents’ accounts of what their educational experiences were but I had never read or heard the profound and perverse impact that segregation had on children who looked like me. The lesson I learned from the project was that the law was not just a set of statutes and cases but something that gave me the right and opportunity to have an equitable chance at success in life where I could be judged based on my abilities and not the amount of melanin in my skin. My goal is to combine the passion for the law that I’ve had ever since learning about the enormity of Brown v. Board of Ed as a fifth grader, with a law degree from the University of Michigan that will give me the skills needed to bring my desires to fruition .

This class has been challenging in many ways and has encouraged me to look at ethics and cultural diversity in many different ways. Institutional discrimination, racial discrimination, age discrimination, and gender discrimination is some of the information about diversity in the United States that has helped me better understand and relate to others in ways that I may not have before taking this course.

I love working with and meeting new people. I am always first to volunteer to represent local clubs like my fraternity or surf club because I love it when I can get another person interested and as excited as I am for the things I love to do. I am an avid local runner,biker, climber and all around outdoors enthusiast so for me living well is important for me to be physically fit enough to do the things I like to do. This means eating well by being conscious of what my body needs and doesn't need. A physical trainer that trained me once told me that nutrition is 60% of being in shape and achieving the body you want to achieve. I want to work at GNC because I want to learn more about keeping my body healthy and to help other people to achieve

As a transfer student, I want to feel California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) such as my home. Being ambassador, it is the best to learn about my school, share my experiences, motivate other students to work towards their goals, look for help if they need, show other students our school's resources, and make others feel special for being part of CSUF.

I felt my heart racing, heard my name being called, and suddenly, anxiety turned into elation. Within moments, I was walking across the international stage in Orlando in front of 16,000 people. I had won 5th at DECA Internationals!

Diversity brings strength and resilience in the face of ever-changing conditions. In today's world, it is more important than ever. The impression is not only to have noticeable diversity in people, but as well to derive as close to a cross-section of all social and economic levels as can be had, whose social views do not show too heavy extremes which could favor either the Defense or the Prosecution. If a prospective juror harbors an opinion which favors one side over the other, attorneys look for this, in not only words said, but in body language, so as not to lose their case. The attorneys have as much, if not more, interest in winning for their own professional sake as for freeing or convicting the defendant. However, there cannot be found

II have long respected the law’s ability to shape everyday experiences. As part of my fifth grade research paper, I studied the Brown v. Board of Education. My parents were raised in the south and spoke of the educational equities they faced living in a society that supported institutionalized racism. Between listening to their stories and studying the profound socioeconomic and psychological impact segregation had on black and brown children I came away enlightened and thankful. Through that project, I learned the law was not simply a set of statutes and cases, but an embodiment of freedoms that gave me the right and the opportunity to have an equitable chance at success in life where I could be judged based on my abilities and not the amount of melanin in my skin. My goal is to combine the passion for the law that I’ve had ever since learning about the enormity of Brown v. Board of Ed as a fifth grader, with a law degree from the University of Michigan that will give me the skills needed to bring my desires to fruition.

Companies and educational institutions greatly benefit from the guidelines of affirmative action because they profit from the different ideas, work styles, and contributions unique to each diverse individual. As quoted in Paul Connors’s compilation, Affirmative Action, President of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, addresses the importance of a diverse educational system by stating, “The experience of arriving on a campus to live and study with classmates from a diverse range of backgrounds is essential to students' training for this new world, nurturing in them an instinct to reach out instead of clinging to the comforts of what seems natural or familiar” (12-13). A statement by Southeastern Oklahoma State University further supports the idea that success in modern day society stems from diversity saying, “Our country is strong because of the rich diversity of our culture, not in spite of it” (Affirmative Action).

INTRO: Prompt: What should “diversity on campus” mean and why? Hook: Does diversity help liberate narrow-mindedness? What exactly is diversity? To say that diversity is approached on school campuses is an understatement to the level of understanding in this increasingly globalized world. By its definition, “diversity” requires inclusion. Are school’s really working toward the inclusion of everyone? This means including color, national origin, socio-economic status, and sexual orientation. Looking at court cases and polls shown in the short articles, “Introduction from Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America” and “The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality,” their approach to strengthening

Bollinger [2003] , a 43-year-old white female applicant was rejected from the University of Michigan despite being in the 86th percentile nationally on the Law School Admissions Test. During the litigation, university officials admitted that Grutter would have been accepted into the school if she was African American, Hispanic, or Native American. The Supreme Court ultimately declared the law school’s policy to be legal in a five-to-four judgement because the justices believed it was “narrowly tailored” to create a diverse student body. The narrow tailoring system has been legalized but it has been put under heavy scrutiny. An admissions process can’t establish quotas for members of certain racial groups or have separate admissions tracks for different races. This loophole for affirmative action is inefficient

As an individual interested in pursuing a career in the medical field and a student with a solid academic record, I am applying to be a volunteer at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. I am currently a junior at Saint Ursula Academy with a 4.13 cumulative GPA. I have completed biology, chemistry, my fourth year of Latin, and am currently taking AP biology. I have received high A’s in all of my classes and, in fact, I am one of two AP biology students to earn the opportunity to attend a day tour of CCHMC this semester. I earned this through my hard work and achievement of the highest grade of the students in the AP biology classes. I have always enjoyed science and math classes, and freshman year my biology teacher inspired me

The Justice recently commented that, "We're not as diverse as some would like in many important characteristics, educational institutions, religion, places where we come from" (Liptak 2016). The Supreme Court Justices graduated from just three different Ivy League law schools, no one is a Protestants, and only but one comes from a coastal state, with the majority coming from New York & New Jersey (Liptak 2016). This was not always the case. Supreme Court Justices used to come from more varied professional backgrounds (Liptak 2016). Some were governors, lawmakers, cabinet members, law professors, practicing lawyers, and state court judges (Liptak 2016). As late early Seventies, former federal judges were in the minority. Now, less than a decade on the Federal bench is a negative. With the variety and complexity of modern cases, it would be difficult to deny the contributions diversity can have on society through the Supreme Court. The background, experiences and personal opinions that undeniably factor in deciding cases cannot all be taught in Harvard and

It wasn’t until this past summer that I stepped foot on Columbia’s campus. It enamored me. Numerous students sat around the quad, some reading books, others engaging in conversations and even some meditating. They all seemed to be different yet they all had one thing in common, the insatiable hunger for knowledge. Columbia has something that I value, diversity. Having grown up in Jersey City, a stone’s throw away from Manhattan, I’ve been exposed to it since before I could walk. Columbia boasts students from over sixty-nine different countries and all fifty states. To be able to interact with peers from various places that face different circumstances is a remarkable opportunity. It is my philosophy that the best way to learn is through the