Sentences with phrase «achieve diversity in»

«Businesses need to work with schools and colleges to genuinely achieve diversity in their workforces,» said Claudia Harris, chief executive of the Careers and Enterprise Company.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

A quarter - century after outlawing strict racial quotas in higher education, the U.S. Supreme Court heard powerful arguments last week on whether race can still be one factor among many that colleges use to achieve diversity in admissions.

«Given where the price is and given that we're looking to achieve diversity in our fuel supply, we've seen the value of solar improving for us.»

His column to administrators and faculty members, «Suggestions for Achieving Diversity in Academia,» appears on MiSciNet every other month.

His column to administrators and faculty, «Suggestions for Achieving Diversity in Academia,» appears on MiSciNet every other month.

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Instead, we're very focused on the sacrifices,» Jennifer Allyn, managing director in the office of diversity for PricewaterhouseCoopers has said, chiding high - achieving women in particular to stop beating themselves up and start counting their blessings.

Research from Australia also supports quotas as a way to achieve significant results and to seize the benefits of gender diversity in decision making.

Facebook's statement this week fell in line accordingly: that «diversity is essential to achieving our mission» but «we have more work to do — a lot more.»

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

Coordinating and motivating large groups of people to work together to achieve even larger goals — whether that's increased sales or increased diversity in the workforce — is genuinely not easy.

In other words, with the VR office, we could create a situation where every corporate diversity goal was fully achieved, but the virtual workforce would itself appear in Virtual Reality like a convention of Young RepublicanIn other words, with the VR office, we could create a situation where every corporate diversity goal was fully achieved, but the virtual workforce would itself appear in Virtual Reality like a convention of Young Republicanin Virtual Reality like a convention of Young Republicans.

In my nightly stock and ETF pick newsletter, I generally use a minimum ADTV requirement of 100k - 500k shares for individual stocks (depending on share size of the position), but may go as low as 50k shares for ETFs (in order to achieve greater asset class diversityIn my nightly stock and ETF pick newsletter, I generally use a minimum ADTV requirement of 100k - 500k shares for individual stocks (depending on share size of the position), but may go as low as 50k shares for ETFs (in order to achieve greater asset class diversityin order to achieve greater asset class diversity).

Ms. Preston, director of supplier diversity development for the automaker, was recognized — in part — for achieving a record - breaking spend of $ 6.5 billion with certified minority business enterprises (MBEs) in 2013 — a 13.8 % year - over-year improvement.

It took time to save and invest in a larger group of companies to achieve better diversity.

As an investment opportunity, gender diversity is about identifying the ways in which achieving that balance may drive positive financial outcomes.

2017.03.22 Royal Bank of Canada signs up to HM Treasury «Women in Finance Charter» RBC is focused on achieving an inclusive workplace where all employees have equal opportunity to reach their full potential, and recognises that diversity and inclusion is not just a core value, it is also a business priority...

In FY16, CHEP US actively extended our inclusion and diversity values to suppliers, achieving a milestone of $ 100 million spend with small suppliers.

3 Principles for Hiring a More Diverse Team How a little fintech company achieved gender parity (66 % women in our executive team; 53 % women in our company), established 100 % paid leave policies for mothers and fathers, and is working even harder toward better diversity.

FrontFundr believes in diversity and wants to achieve a gender - balanced shareholder base.

But coherence must be achieved by the whole (with its parts already in mutual relationships) adjusting the relative importance of the old diversities within the new possibility becoming realized, not by altering nor rejecting them since «an actual occasion has no history.

the diversity of religious faith through out the world through the ages is just part of gods will, in the evolutionary process of change it is necessary to have multiple variable inputs to achieved a sucessfull synthesis.since all religions is gods will, the purpose of such is beyond our comprehension or immediate understanding but it has a profound meaning and direction

To the contrary, unity - in - diversity is intrinsically good wherever it is achieved because every realization of it makes a difference to the divine good.

In fact, since there can never be true uniformity in all things, the only way to achieve unity is to recognize, accept, and celebrate our diversitIn fact, since there can never be true uniformity in all things, the only way to achieve unity is to recognize, accept, and celebrate our diversitin all things, the only way to achieve unity is to recognize, accept, and celebrate our diversity.

The Church can not exemplify «the full humanity revealed in Christ,» bear witness to the interdependence of humankind, or achieve unity in diversity if it continues to acquiesce in the social isolation of disabled persons and to deny them full participation in its life.

While the majority of scholars in Europe and America would be unwilling to dismiss so casually the results of nineteenth - century literary analysis, certainly a growing number would agree that the sense of unity achieved in Genesis, or in the Hexateuch (Genesis — Joshua), or for that matter in the entire Old Testament, is impressive despite the diversity of sources from which it was created.

True church unity is achieved when each person recognizes that all other people have different tastes, desires, interests, and abilities, and rather than see these differences in others as weaknesses to be exploited or flaws to be fixed, this diversity is celebrated and enjoyed as part of God's plan and purpose for the church.

(14) Raiser argues that the starting point has shifted from the givenness of unity to diversity, out of which unity «must be achieved, restored, preserved, or defended in face of opposing positions within the one church.»

«The diversity of its terroirs and its regulation - free appellation areas have enabled Australian winemakers to stay at the forefront of innovation in experimenting with new grape varieties, and to achieve a move upmarket that has been praised by critics, sommeliers and consumers alike.»

In September 2016, the NCAA asked its members to sign a non-binding pledge «to specifically commit to establishing initiatives for achieving ethnic and racial diversity, gender equity and inclusion with a focus and emphasis on hiring practices in intercollegiate athletics to reflect the diversity of our membership and our nation.&raquIn September 2016, the NCAA asked its members to sign a non-binding pledge «to specifically commit to establishing initiatives for achieving ethnic and racial diversity, gender equity and inclusion with a focus and emphasis on hiring practices in intercollegiate athletics to reflect the diversity of our membership and our nation.&raquin intercollegiate athletics to reflect the diversity of our membership and our nation.»

Achieving diversity on corporate boards is quickly becoming the next hot spot in activist investing.

Her speech refused «tolerance» and «respect» as the ultimate goal to achieve in attitudes towards gay people in the workplace — where 800,000 have witnessed physical homophobic bullying in the past five years and two million have witnessed verbal homophobic bullying — further calling for «the celebration of diversity that makes us strong as a country.»

You won't achieve «unity», if you didn't appreciate and factor in that diversity.

He added that he was pleased seeing that NYSC, set up in 1973, was achieving its purpose of integrating the country, noting that the diversity of culture remained Nigeria's greatest strength.

Stage two was to widen diversity of supply to create new incentives for better local performance and more choice for patients - a success story in achieving the shortest ever waiting times including meeting our commitment to less than eighteen weeks from doctor's appointment to hospital treatment, and improving the management of NHS resources through foundation hospitals and the use of the private sector.

If diversity is to be achieved, universities must inspect that net to make sure that it doesn't have a huge hole in the middle — one that misses the local community.

She is not alone in her belief that qualified minority candidates are flooded with job offers; yet Achieving Faculty Diversity: Debunking the Myths, written by Daryl Smith of Claremont Graduate University for the Association of American Colleges and Universities, found that only 11 % of the candidates of color (not all in S&E fields) received multiple offers.

Achieving diversity does not involve recruiting students and faculty members from abroad in an attempt to have some semblance of diversity.

Looking beyond the 2030 timescale of the SDGs, scenario analysis highlights that continuation of past and current trends in drivers of change will inhibit the contribution of the region to the widespread achievement of the SDGs, while scenarios which focus on achieving a balanced supply of nature's contributions to people and incorporate a diversity of values are more likely to contribute to achieving the majority of the SDGs.

At a minimum, fostering a more diverse workforce in science, technology and health care requires attending to difference, nurturing a sense of belonging for a wide range of individuals and giving someone the responsibility for achieving diversity goals.

But embracing difference in a way that does not stereotype or pigeonhole people appears to hold promise for achieving diversity.

If we found that Jefferson County was failing to create racially and economically diverse schools, chances are these types of policies wouldn't be able to achieve diversity goals in any school in the country,» Frankenberg said.

With all of this expressed concern for diversity one has to wonder why there has been so little progress made in achieving diversity.

In 2002, world leaders committed, through the Convention on Biological Diversity, to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 201In 2002, world leaders committed, through the Convention on Biological Diversity, to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 201in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

«It is through a diversity of perspectives that we achieve innovation in science and I appreciate how much the Obamas value diversity.»

The Virginia Affective Neuroscience (VAN) Laboratory promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in achieving and sustaining excellence in our science and public outreach.

Today, we know that children who are not breastfed have low levels of healthy bifidobacterium in their guts, suffer from chronically low bacterial diversity (which is very important for achieving digestive health), and are more prone to developing autoimmune diseases.

The beauty industry still has a way to go in achieving diversity, but «plus - size» models like Philomena Kwao and Paloma Elsesser are using platforms like Instagram to be seen and heard.

While Hollywood has made some strides forward in recent years, the industry still struggles to achieve widespread diversity.

For more about the constitutionality of assigning students to schools in order to achieve diversity, see «Affirmative Action Docketed»