HRCI Exam PHR Topic 10 Question 23 Discussion

Actual exam question for HRCI's PHR exam

Question #: 23
Topic #: 10

As a HR Professional you must be familiar with several different lawsuits and their affect on human resource practices today. What did the Regents of the University of California versus Bakke lawsuit primarily accomplish?

AUniversities could not use race as the reason to exclude an applicant to a college admissions program, but the university could use race as one of the reasons to include a person as an applicant to a college admissions program.

BUniversities could not hire a person based solely on their race.

CUniversities could not use race as a reason to not hire a person, but could use race as a reason to hire a person.

DUniversities could not use race as a reason to include or to exclude a person from a college admissions program.

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Suggested Answer: A

The Regents of the University of California versus Bakke lawsuit, barred race as the sole criteria for excluding an applicant from consideration to an admissions program, but did allow race to be one of the factors for admission to the program.

Answer options B, C, and D are incorrect. These are not valid definitions of University of California versus Bakke lawsuit.

by Deeanna at May 06, 2022, 09:01 PM

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