{"id":10622,"date":"2019-03-17T13:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/03\/17\/comparing-israeli-american-affirmative-action-programs-in-universities"},"modified":"2019-03-17T13:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T10:55:47","slug":"comparing-israeli-american-affirmative-action-programs-in-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/03\/17\/comparing-israeli-american-affirmative-action-programs-in-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Israeli &#038; American Affirmative Action Programs in Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/sigal-alon\/affirmative-action-israel_b_8958342.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article from the Huffington Post<\/a>, Sigal Alon,\u00a0associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University and the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellsage.org\/publications\/race-class-and-affirmative-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"subsec:paragraph;cpos:11;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid-parsed=\"slk\" data-rapid_p=\"9\" data-v9y=\"1\">Race, Class, and Affirmative Action<\/a>, compares\u00a0the affirmative action policies in universities in Israel and the United States. As opposed to the American policy, based on race and ethnicity, the affirmative action programs in Israel&#8217;s top universities aim to achieve diversity and equality<\/em><em>\u00a0based on the socio-economic class of applicants&#8217; neighborhoods and high schools. Using the examples of two students &#8211; an Arab-Israeli and a Mizrahi Jew from a development town &#8211; this explores the pros, cons and reasons behind such a policy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article from the Huffington Post, Sigal Alon,\u00a0associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University and the author of Race, Class, and Affirmative Action, compares\u00a0the affirmative action policies in universities in Israel and the United States. As opposed to the American policy, based on race and ethnicity, the affirmative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":10623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[3192,2535,3127,2686,2409,2423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10623\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}