Don't lose race-conscious policies

Race-Conscious Educational Policies Versus a “Color-Blind Constitution”: A Historical Perspective

This essay has one major theme, to examine a central argument in contemporary desegregation and affirmative action lawsuits, including the Louisville and Seattle school desegregation cases just decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2007 (Parents Involved, 2007).1 The central question is whether the use of racial classifications to achieve school desegregation and diversity violates the ...

Race-Specific Policies and the Truly Disadvantaged

Race-Conscious Professionalism and African American Representation in Academic Medicine.

African Americans remain substantially less likely than other physicians to hold academic appointments. The roots of these disparities stem from different extrinsic and intrinsic forces that guide career development. Efforts to ameliorate African American underrepresentation in academic medicine have traditionally focused on modifying structural and extrinsic barriers through undergraduate and ...

Towards environmentally sustainable human behaviour: targeting non-conscious and conscious processes for effective and acceptable policies

Meeting climate change targets to limit global warming to 2°C requires rapid and large reductions in demand for products that most contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These include production of bulk materials (e.g. steel and cement), energy supply (e.g. fossil fuels) and animal source foods (particularly ruminants and their products). Effective strategies to meet these targets requir...

Use-it or Lose-it Policies for the Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service in ATM Networks

Ž . The Available Bit Rate ABR service has been developed to support data applications over Asynchronous Transfer Ž . Mode ATM . The ABR service uses a closed-loop rate-based traffic management framework where the network divides left-over bandwidth among contending sources. The ATM Forum traffic management group also incorporated open-loop control capabilities to make the ABR service robust to...