Abigail Adams University Has Done a Self Audit and Identified

question 47

Multiple Choice

Abigail Adams University has done a self audit and identified a conspicuous racial imbalance in that 85% of their department chairs and deans are white men. They voluntarily institute a plan that mandates that future selections of department chairs and deans will be on a 1 to 1 basis until an appropriate ratio is achieved. Mike Rogers, a white male professor, has applied for a position as a dean and is rejected. He subsequently discovers that a less qualified black female was promoted into the spot he sought. If Professor Rogers files a claim based on discrimination, he will

• A) lose because suits based on reverse discrimination are barred by Title VII.
• B) win because Executive Order 11246 requires that affirmative action plans be permanent rather than temporary.
• C) win because one-for-one hiring, training or promotion programs are disfavored by the courts except to remedy long-standing resistant cases of under representation.
• D) lose because temporary plans to remedy existing injustices are permitted based on United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO v. Weber.

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