Sentences with phrase «for racial diversity»

The biggest concern expressed by judges at the meeting was what merit selection would mean for racial diversity on the bench.

The Rooney Rule is a diversity success story: The Institute for Diversity and Ethics In Sport consistently gives the NFL an A grade for racial diversity; the NFL applies the rule to all executive - level positions in the league's corporate office; six of the 32 NFL general managers are racial minorities; six of the last eight Super Bowls have featured teams with an African American head coach or general manager; and in the 2013 offseason, when African Americans were not selected for head coaching vacancies, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell proclaimed his disappointment publicly — furthering reiterating the importance of diverse leadership on NFL sidelines.

Harlem is most known for its racial diversity, building a vast African - American community in the Manhattan neighbourhood of NYC.

At first glance, the charter school movement might look to be a modern - day model for racial diversity.

Our cohort of fellows is predominately based in Oakland, a city of more than 400,000 people that is known for its racial diversity but also its income inequality; for example, 71 % of the student body in Oakland public schools qualifies for free or reduced - priced lunch.

The Texas city isn't exactly known for its racial diversity.

Out of 18 candidates on the Republican ticket, they couldn't see fit for any racial diversity whatsoever?

I student taught in a rural area of central Illinois - a school with two people who were black (and that was it for the racial diversity) so they created their own minorities thorugh religion.

Not exact matches

In an age of racial tension and discrimination, next generation leaders will embrace diversity; welcome differing opinions, ideas, and expressions; and create an open environment that promotes mutual understanding, where people come together for a greater good.

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.

Let us begin, then, with one cold, hard - numbered truth: For much of corporate America, racial diversity continues to be at best a challenge — and at worst a flat - out fiction — particularly in the executive ranks.

Companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35 % more likely to have returns above national industry medians, SAP chief diversity and inclusion officer Anka Wittenburg wrote in a piece for Fortune, quoting a McKinsey study.

For the purposes of this proposal, «sustainability» is defined as how environmental and social considerations, and related financial impacts, are integrated into long - term corporate strategy, and «diversity» refers to gender, racial, and ethnic diversity.

A 2015 McKinsey study of 366 companies found that corporate leadership in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity were 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their national industry median.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»

Also, the presence of women, plus racial diversity, and denominational diversity, makes for a student body that's different from what it was a generation ago.

For example, in light of the self - humbling fulfillment of both law and prophecy in Jesus Christ, biblically sanctioned religious persecution or genocide can never again be even remotely conceived as an answer to religious and racial diversity.

«The article, «Race, Diversity, and Membership Duration in Religious Congregations,» said that nine out of ten congregations in the U.S. are segregated — a single racial groups accounts for more than 80 percent of their membership.»

A Muslim does not «belong» to a particular mosque, which means there is enormous racial, ethnic and class diversity in a congregation that gathers for Friday prayer — in contrast to the homogeneity of most Protestant congregations.

Those, however, who hope for unity through culture regard this diversity between cultures as a transitional phase preceding the development of a world culture which will result from cross-fertilization between national or racial cultures.

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.

For all the beauty of ethnic, religious and racial diversities, there is a troubling aspect to the current rise of ethnic consciousness — or, as it is sometimes called, the new ethnicity — and that is the fact that it has become politicized.

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.»

The Brennan Center for Justice released a study this morning pointing to the racial and economic diversity of political donors in a public financing system.

While several new faces in city government will help increase racial diversity, McLaughlin said that doesn't mean issues for people of color will be focused topics.

As Buffalo Public Schools near the start of the long process for admission to the city's criteria school next year, the district is asking city residents to come up with ideas for improving racial and ethnic diversity in the schools.

«The union's rejection of this resolution - which called for more black teachers in schools, an end to discriminatory discipline policies and more diversity in the curriculum — only impedes the school system's progress towards racial justice,» they wrote.

During Mr. de Blasio's run for public advocate four years ago, Ms. McCray sat in on focus groups in which minority voters talked about the strong appeal of the family's racial diversity — images of which Mr. de Blasio featured prominently in campaign brochures and mailers.

Lev Dassin, the acting United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and Tony West, the assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Westchester County has agreed to fund the building of 750 units of affordable housing in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the United States under the False Claims Act as well as the Housing and Community Development Act.

For innovation - focused banks, increases in racial diversity were clearly related to enhanced financial performance.

He said that while the desire for diversity is «a popular rallying cry in American religion,» previous research has shown that an estimated nine of 10 U.S. congregations contain more than 80 percent of one racial group, and almost half of the congregations in America are completely of one race.

Jaya Aysola, MD, DTMH, MPH, an assistant professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, and Lisa M. Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN, an assistant professor of Nursing and assistant dean for Diversity and Inclusivity, followed Jenkins with discussions around the importance of diversity and inclusion in an organization like Penn Medicine and racial disparities in medical research, respDiversity and Inclusivity, followed Jenkins with discussions around the importance of diversity and inclusion in an organization like Penn Medicine and racial disparities in medical research, respdiversity and inclusion in an organization like Penn Medicine and racial disparities in medical research, respectively.

With an increasing amount of power players speaking out about the need for more racial and body diversity in the industry, it's a shame that street style images depict such a limited view of who is considered fashionable.

It's lack of diversity for one, especially when it comes to racial, gender, and sexuality.

A lot has been said in recent years about the need for greater diversity on the runway — not just racial diversity, but body diversity.

This, of course, would have been a nice opportunity to hire a black model, as there aren't many jobs available for non-white models (as Jezebel pointed out, 82 percent of the models at New York Fashion Week this season were white) and some might argue (I would argue) that the lack of racial diversity in the fashion industry promotes a standard of beauty which verges on (slash is) white supremacist.

An inclusion rider is a reference to the belief by some that there should be requirements in contracts that provide for gender and racial diversity.

An African American director casting one of the greatest African American movie stars as a «classic» western hero, just as President Obama prepares to ride off into the sunset (while mainstream cinema struggles to catch up with the racial diversity of the US) is a recipe for bold imagery.

The clause can be added to any contract to ensure that the project provides for gender and racial diversity.

He also commended Die Hard for its ahead - of - its - time racial diversity.

Under the leadership of president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy has undergone an aggressive push for more diversity among its ranks, an initiative that has seen a large number of women (46 percent of a record 683 movie professionals in 2016) and racial minorities (41 percent of that same figure) asked to join the prestigious industry group in recent years.

Industry watchers say Hollywood needs a stronger infrastructure of support for black filmmakers to sustain this level of racial diversity on and off the screen.

Perhaps for a boy from Minnesota first encountering all this racial diversity, the presence of non-white people would come as something of a disorienting shock.

On four items — school discipline, expectations for student achievement, school building and facilities, and the racial and ethnic diversity among students — we find no significant difference in the variation in satisfaction across sectors.

The findings will have implications for how to address racial diversity and student competition in privileged communities.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

All I do know is that another proposal of mine, grouping NYC public school kids by ability, rather than age, would not only solve the perennial shortage of Gifted & Talented seats for all who qualify, it would also help with racial and socioeconomic diversity.

Let me be clear: I don't mean racial or ethnic diversity, which is a huge plus for everybody — the students, the parents, and society at large.