1. Diversity, Affirmative Action, and all that other controversial and cliched stuff… In the world of work

2. Let’s build a house Alone? Together? If women were only given nails could they build the house? If people of color were only given rakes, could they build a house?

3. “Failure to openly discuss discrimination and racism not only debunks progress and social development but limits the outcome of critical theory”

4. CCC Statistics at a glance 6 Latino FT Instructors 0 African American FT Instructors

5. Student Representation and Graduation trends…at a glance http://depts.clackamas.edu/curric- reporting/Internal%20Reports/Trend%20Re ports/_End%20of%20Year/End- ofYear%20Amended%20Enrollment%20Re port%20Post%20Desk%20Audit%20withTre nd.pdf http://depts.clackamas.edu/curric- reporting/Internal%20Reports/Trend%20Re ports/_End%20of%20Year/End- ofYear%20Amended%20Enrollment%20Re port%20Post%20Desk%20Audit%20withTre nd.pdf http://depts.clackamas.edu/curric- reporting/Graduation%20Reports/2008- 09/2008-09%20Graduation%20Report.pdf http://depts.clackamas.edu/curric- reporting/Graduation%20Reports/2008- 09/2008-09%20Graduation%20Report.pdf

6. County Stats http://factfinder.census.gov/bf/_lang=en_ vt_name=DEC_2000_PL_U_QTPL_ge o_id=05000US41005.html

7. Affirmative Action - A Federal government program covering actions, policies, and procedures for employers/contractors that are designed to achieve equal employment opportunity. The affirmative action obligation includes a thorough, systematic effort to prevent discrimination from occurring or to detect it and eliminate it as promptly as possible, and recruitment and outreach measures (OLMIS: http://qualityinfo.org/olmisj/DoQuery?itemid=000033 62). http://qualityinfo.org/olmisj/DoQuery?itemid=000033 62

8. Quick Affirmative Action facts… literature pins the origin of affirmative action in the United States as understood in popular discourse from 1935. Affirmative action appeared as part of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (See Dept. of Labor Fact Sheet, 9517).

9. It is quiet interesting that some higher institutions and organizations have some programs to promote diversity but very little is seen in terms of actual hiring of the underrepresented

10. The federal and state governments’ actions to obliterate discrimination in the public sector are in line to creating a political environment where all citizens are treated equally, without any favoritism by any one particular group within the American populace. But hiring is only done by individuals who are already in an organization, which limits the direct authority of the governments.

11. The federal government for decades made efforts to diversify American workforce through Executive Orders, which included presidents J.F.Kennedy (10925) and L. B. Johnson (11246).

12. Executive Orders 11246* and 11375,^which cover organizations with federal government contracts in excess of $10,000, prohibit discrimination in employment. In addition, the accompanying Revised Order No. 4" requires contractors with 50 or more employees to develop an affirmative action program which must include: (a) a set of specific and results-oriented procedures to which a contractor must make a commitment to apply in good faith, and (b) an analysis of areas within which the government contractor is deficient in utilization of minority groups and goals and timetables to which the…

13. Myths and Facts on Immigration http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/u ploaded/file/U_S_%20Chamber%20M yth%20Fact.pdf

14. References “The Dilemma of Hiring Minorities and Conservative Resistance: The Diversity Game” By Kwame Badu Antwi- Boasiako “Equal Employment Opportunity and Its Implications for Personnel Practices” By WILLIAM H. HOLLEY and HUBERT S. FIELD “The Future of Affirmative Action: Social Policy and Judicial Reality” by Elizabeth Timmerman Lugg, Assistant Prof., Illinois State University “Goals and Action Plan for People of Color Participation and Diversity” by Various, Centralia College, WA US Census, 2002, US Census Bureau US Chamber of Commerce