Sentences with phrase «about issues of diversity»

I've written a lot in these pages about the issues of diversity and equality — much of it directly related to maintaining the number of women in the legal profession.

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While Abudulai agrees it's generally women and people of colour who wind up having to bring diversity issues forward in the workplace, she's still happy to talk about them.

And what I hate is that women are always asked the question about diversity, and if you're one of the few women in the room, you feel obligated to raise it as an issue, when you would rather far often talk about the economics of something.

Critics from the right tend to be concerned about the content of their message, noting that successful CEO activism often advances left - leaning arguments on issues like gun control and diversity.

We talked about those tech areas, some newer arenas Aspect is eyeing such as artificial intelligence, voice, and blockchain — as well as issues such as international competition, diversity, potential effects of trade sanctions on startups, and the changing nature of entrepreneurs themselves.

That includes releasing a diversity report and also creating more clear ways staff can lodge complaints about a range of issues.

We talked to Trillia Newbell, a speaker and author whose books include United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity, about how Christians can have productive conversations and take action on issues of racial injustice.

We know that television informs us, a genuine window on the world, but also that its commercial demand for profit severely limits the amount of diversity of opinion that is aired, that it tends to trivialize issues and to represent the views of the rich, so that through TV the average citizen simply can not get the information needed to make intelligent decisions about living in our democracy.

Gerry Fernandez, founder and president of the Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance, an organization whose mission is to educate and advise foodservice companies on matters of diversity, said Starbucks responded to the crisis well, noting that the chain's national prominence presents an opportunity to open a discussion about larger issues at play.

According to the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the US Department of State, about 20,000 visas have been issued to Ghanaians who won the Diversity Visa Lottery and were qualified to enter the United States.

Other issues included the importance of diversity within black, Asian and minority ethnic minority representation so that all communities felt they had a voice, and concerns about the deselection of councillors.

It is our goal to provide information about opportunities such as conferences, workshops, seminars, grants / fellowships, travel awards and volunteer opportunities related to issues of diversity.

Foulkes said, «We've reached out to many of our beauty brand partners, many of whom are already thinking about this important issue, to work together to ensure that the beauty aisle is a place that represents and celebrates the authenticity and diversity of the communities we serve.»

While I applaud all these initiatives and discussions and think these issues of inclusion, diversity and accessibility are now being talked about more than ever online and off, I still think there is a long, long way to go.

When she isn't busy thinking about diversity issues in and out of the yoga world or wondering why people wear makeup to hot yoga classes, she's usually either playing with her pugs, working in her organic garden, baking cookies for friends or taking long road trips to off - the - beaten - path places.

Despite much talk of diversity and tradition, Mr. Levine has little fresh to say about gentrification issues or documentary storytelling.

Writer / director Scott Derrickson finally spoke out about it and Marvel went so far as to issue a statement which read in part, they «have a very strong record of diversity in its casting of films.»

Ahead of the controversies that erupted during the recent awards season, the festival had already placed itself at the forefront of Hollywood's continuing conversation about diversity and representation in front of and behind the camera and this year looks to continue advancing the issue.

He recently was asked about the studio's diversity issues, what he thinks is the cultural impact of Black... Read More»

«High - quality civic learning teaches the importance of community (both within the school and more broadly), respectful dialogue about controversial issues, creative problem solving, collaboration, teamwork, and the importance of diversity,» according to the authors.

«Ultimately, we hope this impacts things like the curriculum [and] how issues of diversity are integrated and talked about in the classroom.

For example, Rotterdam School of Management that according to Newsweek is leading within the Sustainability Index in Europe trains young people to think about how to deal with diversity management issues and respect nature.

Addressing issues of diversity in the classroom can often be challenging because, as Kim noted, as a society we are conditioned from a young age to make assumptions about things by association and categorization.

«It will be a dossier with all the information about the structures, all information about the self - financing that has been done, the whole issue of repertoire, audiovisual material of all workshops, photos, videos... to continue proposing it for physical functional diversity and to see the results, because it has worked and it is a pioneer with the disabled.

We welcome the chance to respond on issues of teacher voice; diversity and achievement; and what Al Shanker might say today about the state of charter schools.

We spoke with Rollins about what he's looking forward to at HGSE and his perspective on issues of diversity and inclusion in education.

I encourage school leaders and educators to read the source material to learn more about the views of parents and guardians on these and other issues, including school choice, diversity, wraparound services, and more.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

The U.S. Department of Education is once again emphasizing the benefit of diversity in its competitive magnet school funding process, and local officials should build on New York City's history of magnet school success to bring home more of that federal funding (For more information about magnet schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still Matter?

«In reference to issues on L.A.'s west side, Zimmer argues, «The parents buying up the houses, who have more resources, have a lot of fear about public schools... and when you give them the opportunity to really engage and create integration and diversity in their neighborhood public schools, they don't want to.»

Hague said the issue of gender diversity is one that «young people feel strongly about and do care about».

The Center for Cultural Fluency was created to provide classroom resources and professional development opportunities for Mount Saint Mary's University faculty and students, as well as Los Angeles teachers about issues of cultural diversity and social justice.

Still, I see the lack of diversity as an issue so wanted to write about it!

I have no problem opening my big mouth and contesting the issues (BOTH my posts surrounding this summit concentrated on the lack of diversity in the issue of study abroad), both times I spoke up, I spoke up on this issue, and have been vocal about it ever since.

«diversity is a non issue in games, and only matters to minorities looking for jobs» This proves better than any of my words that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Pluralism dominated the 1970s, and the subsequent decades have brought about an even richer diversity as artists have forcefully explored issues of race and gender.

The issue of diversity came up recently in the discussion surrounding another post I wrote about art world lists, so let me reiterate here: the goal is not tokenism or quotas.

The core of the issue that I worry most about, as do others, is that arguments for action on climate change that evoke only one particular vision of the future will reflect only the priorities and values of certain parties, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem of climate change and align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.

Oregon Humanities: Oregon Humanities provides public program grants and responsive program grants to nonprofits that are engaged in the humanities, such as social justice activities, the arts, discussion of public policy, promoting cultural diversity, and opportunities to discuss and learn about historical, political and cultural issues.

Law enforcement from outside of the city appear ill - equipped to deal with issues of diversity and disability, an issue I had the opportunity to speak to hundreds of police officers and first responders about in 2006.

There was an interesting discussion about gender equity and other diversity issues but near the end of the hour and half chat, it veered toward young lawyers and how to succeed.

In addition, this issue looks at strategic alliances between large law firms and smaller minority owned firms for the purpose of promoting diversity; a new online journal about law firm innovation; and opportunities for innovative and progressive law firms to apply for awards that recognize their efforts.

We have had conversations with external firms more generally about this issue, usually when we are having our relationship conversations with the firms we talk about the importance of diversity and inclusion and we want them to produce a diverse team as well.

A scapegoat in the sense that everything centres on you're either for or against equality and diversity when in many cases the debates are really about other underlying issues — either issues that the debaters are blind to or so caught up in the heat of opposing each other that they can't see the forest for the trees and one thing leads to another and descend into incivility.

But now that EarthNight has been featured at a few conventions and on the PlayStation blog, Siegel says he's had to think about issues of race and diversity in video games — and he's happy with EarthNight's place in the conversation.

It's important that workers know where the boardroom stands on issues such as diversity, but if the company isn't running proper employee engagement initiatives to keep a finger on the pulse of the workforce, executives may end up clueless about how their workers view them.

This year our aim is to empower young people to celebrate diversity online in order to inspire a kind, respectful and inclusive internet, and help raise awareness about the issue of online hate and ensure no child is ever targeted online for being different.

The goal of ISSA's work in Embracing Diversity is to empower adults working with diverse groups to recognize their own attitudes, beliefs and behaviors in relation to marginalized groups; to raise their awareness and knowledge about issues of discrimination and exclusion; and to help them take responsibility and build the capacity for change on personal, professional and institutional levels.

We've gone from worrying about if we should allow technology in early childhood classrooms to deeper conversations about: appropriate and intentional use; tech integration; addressing issues of access, equity and diversity; connections between formal and informal learning; new tools for family engagement; and the role of educators as media mentors.

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