1. Learning targets
Today I can:
• Explain the purpose of using Powerpoint
• Know how to use Powerpoint as a visual aid
instead of a teleprompter
• Identify what makes a good Powerpoint slide
• Harvest, include, and cite images properly

2. Why use
Powerpoint?

3. YOU are the
focus…
Not the
screen.

4. Affirmative Action
Jon Orech

5. Affirmative Action
Jon Orech

6. Justice for
All?
Jon Orech
Image by Flickr contributor robin_slee

7. The Truth About
Affirmative Action
Jon Orech
Image from racialequity.net

8. Overview
• A system that gives minorities preferential
treatment, especially in hiring and education.
• Originally began as a way to help African
Americans during the Civil Rights area but
grew to include other minorities and women.

9. Overview
• A system that gives minorities preferential
treatment, especially in hiring and education.
• Originally began as a way to help African
Americans during the Civil Rights area but
grew to include other minorities and women.

10. What is Affirmative Action?
A system that gives minorities preferential
treatment, especially in hiring and education.

11. Some important dates are:
– 1961 – John F. Kennedy encouraged contractors working with
the government to hire employees w/o regard to race
– President Johnson extended and required certain businesses to
have hiring plans that added minorities to their companies
– 1964 – Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act banned racial
discrimination in employment and created the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
– 1970 – Supreme Court began hearing challenges
– 1978- Allan Bakke, a white medical student, sued University of
California at Davis for admitting minorities with much lower
scores than his
– Affirmative Action ended with President Reagan
– 1995 – University of California voted to discontinue Affirmative
Action

12. Some important dates are:
– 1961 – John F. Kennedy encouraged contractors working with
the government to hire employees w/o regard to race
– President Johnson extended and required certain businesses to
have hiring plans that added minorities to their companies
– 1964 – Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act banned racial
discrimination in employment and created the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
– 1970 – Supreme Court began hearing challenges
– 1978- Allan Bakke, a white medical student, sued University of
California at Davis for admitting minorities with much lower
scores than his
– Affirmative Action ended with President Reagan
– 1995 – University of California voted to discontinue Affirmative
Action

13. Landmark Events
• 1961: Kennedy encourages employers
• 1963: Johnson requires hiring plans
• 1964: Title VII of Civil Rights Act
• 1970: Supreme Court challenges
• 1978: Bakke vs U.C. Davis
• 1986: Reagan ends Affirmative Action

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19. IF YOU USE A GRAPH OR
CHART,
EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE
USING IT.

20. Affirmative Action
Get rid of it We need it
• No longer needed because women • White men still have the most power
are now treated equally – At the end of the 20th century, only 16% of
blacks held profession or managerial
– 57% of all college students are female positions, compared with 31% for whites
– Since 1990, women have earned – Women own 39% of contracting firms, but
more baccalaureate degrees than less than 3% of federal contracts go to
men firms owned by women
• Was originally designed to make up • A 1993 study found that companies
for slavery, but many of the with hiring practices that valued
“blacks” that are admitted to women and minorities performed 24%
better in the stock market than those
university are actually first or who did not
second generation immigrants from • Affirmative action corrects the terrible
countries like Ghana or Nigeria injuries that U.S. culture has allowed for
• Many minorities feel insecure on centuries
campuses and at jobs b/c they feel
like they have to prove themselves

21. Affirmative Action
Get rid of it We need it
• No longer needed because women • White men still have the most power
are now treated equally – At the end of the 20th century, only 16% of
blacks held profession or managerial
– 57% of all college students are female positions, compared with 31% for whites
– Since 1990, women have earned – Women own 39% of contracting firms, but
more baccalaureate degrees than less than 3% of federal contracts go to
men firms owned by women
• Was originally designed to make up • A 1993 study found that companies
for slavery, but many of the with hiring practices that valued
“blacks” that are admitted to women and minorities performed 24%
better in the stock market than those
university are actually first or who did not
second generation immigrants from • Affirmative action corrects the terrible
countries like Ghana or Nigeria injuries that U.S. culture has allowed for
• Many minorities feel insecure on centuries
campuses and at jobs b/c they feel
like they have to prove themselves
•

22. Ending Affirmative Action
Points Counterpoints
o Gives females equal o Perpetuates white male
chances dominance
o Designed to o Improves business
compensate for performance
slavery o Corrects historical
o Addresses minorities’ injustices
insecurities

23. Points
• Females: equal chances
• Designed to compensate for
slavery
• Minorities’ insecurities

24. What to keep in mind:
• PPT assists audience, NOT speaker
• Reduce number of words (6x6 rule)
• Use images and graphics (GIVE CREDIT)
• Use easy-to-read fonts
• Limit effects and transitions
• Use contrasting colors