Sentences with phrase «university social equity»

Partners and sponsors of SCRIP include the office of Jacques Chagnon, Member of the Quebec National Assembly for Westmount - St - Louis; Concordia Student Union; CSU Legal Information Clinic; CSU HOJO (Housing and Job Office); CSU Student Advocacy Office, McGill University Social Equity and Diversity in Education (SEDE) Office and the Institute for Research and Education on Race Relations (IRERR)

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Environmentalists, regulators, university educators and social equity groups provided expertise to the project as well.

Adamu pointed out that the decision was in line with the university's vision of providing highly accessible and enhanced education anchored by social justice, equity, equality and national cohesion through comprehensive reach that transcends all barriers.

On the contrary, measures to enhance social equity in a societal and macroeconomic sense may strengthen nature conservation,» stresses Stefan Baumgärtner, Professor of Environmental Economics and Resource Management at the University of Freiburg and director of the study.

Researchers from Binghamton University, Cornell University, the International City / County Management Association (ICMA), and two divisions of the American Planning Association measured local government action on energy, water, waste, land use and transportation, as well as social equity and economic development across 1,900 local governments.

Rollins» most recent position was as senior education, training, and strategy specialist in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Maryland, where his responsibilities included designing and facilitating diversity and social justice trainings, and helping to craft and implement strategic plans related to equity and diversity education.

In «Foregrounding Equity in Teacher Education: Toward a Model of Social Justice Pedagogical and Content Knowledge,» authors Jeanne Dyches of Iowa State University and Ashley Boyd of Washington State University lay out the theoretical model they call Social Justice Pedagogical and Content Knowledge, or SJPACK.

Cindy Gutierrez of the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) discussed the role of equity and social justice in deeper learning, again stressing the importance of having a coherent approach throughout a program.

The George Mason University School Counseling Program prepares students to be comprehensive school counselors who advocate for educational equity and social justice, and who remove barriers to academic achievement for all students.

Members of this student organization at University of Colorado Denver explore the role of equity and social justice within urban schools.

The dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Education and two of her close colleagues from the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) are firing up their advocacy for answering catastrophic «systemic challenges» with «systemic solutions» that promote social justice and equity.

All this happens Oct. 22 and 23 at American University in Washington, D.C. Among the topics panelists will discuss are equity investment in law firms, the impact of globalization on law firms, the value (or not) of social media, new law firm business models, and how to be «smarter» about the practice of law.

During his doctoral studies, Dr. Khoday also worked as a human rights researcher at McGill University's Social Equity and Diversity Education Office.

Professor Bernadette McSherry is the Foundation Director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Professor of Law at both the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Law at Monash University.

Anna is Professor of Epidemiology and Equity in Public Health & Head of Obesity and Population Health in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University.

We are co-hosting this with the South Australian Council of Social Service and our main speaker will be Prof Ron Labonte (University of Ottawa) who is one of our Chief Investigators and will provide a global perspective on taxation policy and health equity.

Janice Lee is a PhD candidate and recipient of the CRE Social Determinants of Health Equity PhD Scholarship and is based at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.

Professor Emeritus of Biological Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Post-doc at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden, Professor in Social Medicine and Public Health Science at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden

He also served as co-investigator with OSLC scientist Dr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr. (now director of the Center for Equity Promotion in the College of Education at the University of Oregon) on a variety of projects through the Oregon Social Learning Center Latino Research Team, including the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project I and II, which developed and tested a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems; the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study, which was designed to learn more about how Latino families and their middle school youth who have immigrated to the U.S. adapt to life in this country; and PREVENIR, which developed and refined a culturally specific parent and teacher training program in four countries in Central America.

He served as the University of Oregon Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity from 2005 to 2011, and also served as a senior scientist at the non-profit Oregon Social Learning Center where he founded and directed the center's Latino Research Team beginning in 1999.

Further, the Campaign was the subject of a case study in Dr Helen Potts» (Human Rights Centre, University of Essex) landmark publication, Accountability and the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health; [8] and also referred to in the World Health Organisation's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health's final report, Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health, a title that echoed the name of the CamSocial Determinants of Health's final report, Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health, a title that echoed the name of the Camsocial determinants of health, a title that echoed the name of the Campaign.