Sentences with phrase «centered around diversity»

CEO Howard Schultz is known for taking on big issues like job creation and education so the coffee chain's latest initiative centered around diversity and racial inequality was not a big departure from that.

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A recent Deloitte survey finds employers» priorities regarding workplace diversity is centered around recruiting and the use of new tools to reduce bias in recruiting.

«Our findings capture which critical regions around the world hold the wild diversity we need for the stability of global agriculture,» says study co-author Colin Khoury, a crop diversity specialist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia.

Around the same time, Shahid Naeem, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability in New York City, was also looking beyond species numbers to study ecosystem function, zeroing in on the diversity of species at different levels of the food web.

This flow centers around control and precision, with a diversity of exercises and modifications to suit a range of levels from beginner to advanced.

The Fading Footsteps project is a twelve - week interdisciplinary ecology unit centered around the guiding question: How does diversity strengthen an ecosystem?

Shaun Harper, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has studied higher education graduate programs around the country — the programs that train students to manage admissions, student life, strategic planning, and even diversity initiatives at colleges.

Family Engagement University, a program of Metro Nashville Public Schools» Department of Family and Community Partnerships, and Building Bridges, a program of Oasis Center, worked to elevate the need for policies that advance teacher quality through trainings and preparation around diversity, identity, privilege, and equity for all students.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

Social Studies The social studies curriculum centers around thematic units which help children develop a sense of self, community, and diversity.

The Kinsella community acknowledges both student and staff diversity by providing culturally rich and socially minded educational experiences centered around the arts.

Each year the Wexner Center presents Zoom, our youth — friendly series celebrating the rich diversity of films from around the world.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents contemporary art from the Bay Area and around the world that reflects the profound issues and ideas of our time, expands the boundaries of artistic practice, and celebrates the diversity of human experience and expression.

«People around the world are beginning to address [climate change] by reducing their carbon footprint through less consumption and better technology,» wrote the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD).

This standard is centered around a white ideal that actively ignores the diversity of cultural and religious backgrounds in our student body.

Perspective diversity centers around the idea that the best teams are comprised of people with different educational backgrounds, belief systems, and experiences.

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