Sentences with phrase «in ethnic studies»

Sara served as Visiting Faculty in the Ethnic Studies Department of Brown University, and entered a graduate program at Brown's Center for Environmental Studies in 2009.

Joo received her doctorate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

Joo received her doctorate in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

She received her B.S. in Political Science with a minor in Ethnic Studies from Santa Clara University.

Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education, ethnic studies, and teacher education; her research in ethnic studies has helped support its recent expansion throughout California.

La Mikia holds dual master's degrees in public policy and urban planning from the University of Southern California, and bachelor's degrees in ethnic studies and urban studies & planning from the University of California, San Diego.

Ms. Brown holds a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies and bachelor's and master's degrees in communication from the University of Texas at Austin.

When thinking about what she will change in the field of education, Heather Elgin draws upon the words of activist and civil rights lawyer Monica Ramirez — a recent guest in her Ethnic Studies course — «Sometimes there aren't doors.

I can't summarize her immense impact in such a short space, but I can say that her class content [in Ethnic Studies and Education] was inspiring and thought - provoking, and she epitomizes an educator who loves, cares for, and helps heal her students.

Special programs have been established in ethnic studies and in women's studies, for example, that address the needs of some students and support certain social movements.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

In this edited volume, McClosky has included a vast number of case studies written by teachers of their experiences using drama, simulation techniques, filmmaking, literature related to social values and ethnic issues, and so forth.

Wallerstein replies that this is a hypothesis - generating study that can lead to further investigations of other groups - such as ethnic groups in which the extended family plays a larger role, or same - sex couples.

Ethnic particularism, in the official form of admissions procedures and ethnic studies programs and the unofficial form of students» seating choices in the cafeteria and the library, is a powerful force in AmeriEthnic particularism, in the official form of admissions procedures and ethnic studies programs and the unofficial form of students» seating choices in the cafeteria and the library, is a powerful force in Ameriethnic studies programs and the unofficial form of students» seating choices in the cafeteria and the library, is a powerful force in American...

Indeed, it stands in the vanguard of the progressive academy, allied with critical race studies, queer studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies.

I would have much greater faith in the study if it had a sampling of ten times that many people, had been conducted over a two - decade time frame in different parts of the country, and was based on greater ethnic diversity.

About 33 percent of consumers say they have tried a new global cuisine in the past year and 80 percent eat ethnic food at least once per month, according to a National Restaurant Association study.

(In January, Hoffman found herself in the spotlight after a CU ethnic studies professor likened Sept. 11 victims to Nazi Adolf EichmannIn January, Hoffman found herself in the spotlight after a CU ethnic studies professor likened Sept. 11 victims to Nazi Adolf Eichmannin the spotlight after a CU ethnic studies professor likened Sept. 11 victims to Nazi Adolf Eichmann.)

The participants were mostly young, disadvantaged and from ethnic minorities (Spaulding et al, 2009) and many — in one study 25 % — had been young offenders (Romo et al, 2004).

* And in the largest and possible most systematic study to date, conducted on five different ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes for individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.

Limitations: Conclusions from the study are limited in their application to the population of expectant fathers by the low response rate and the low numbers of low - income, ethnic - background, and indigenous fathers in the sample.

In addition, some studies have reported ethnic differences — that for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homeIn addition, some studies have reported ethnic differences — that for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homein academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homes.

In our study, breastfeeding was protective among non-Hispanic whites but not other racial / ethnic groups.

This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

For example, a study of adolescents in the San Francisco Bay Area found that the authoritarian parenting style was linked with lower school grades for all ethnic groups (Dornbusch et al 1987).

Our study was not powered to study the differences in the breastfeeding practice among the different ethnic groups.

Before coming to Doha, he held a prestigious research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany.

In fact, studies (e.g., Manacorda et al 2012) show that the negative impact of wage depression from recent EU migration has been disproportionately shouldered by immigrant communities already in Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the EIn fact, studies (e.g., Manacorda et al 2012) show that the negative impact of wage depression from recent EU migration has been disproportionately shouldered by immigrant communities already in Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the Ein Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the EU.

A study by Operation Black Vote found there are more ethnic minorities than the majority of the incumbent MP in 168 constituencies — up from 99 in 2010.

For example, in his 2011 meta - analytic studies, Hickman recounts that the primordial political cleavage in Kenya maps membership in three ethnic blocs — «Kikuyu / Embu / Mem, Kalenjin / Maasai / Turkana / Samburu, and Luo»; «none of which comprises a majority of the national population».

A new study shows that the ability of «Black Africans» settling in the UK to integrate with society varies according to their national and ethnic background.

In San Francisco, Carranza pushed for reduced suspensions and bolstered LGBT and ethnic studies curriculums while managing to avoid any major scandals.

Comparison of 2010 ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the EMBES.

The field study is to consider the population dynamics in the respective regions, the geographical or physical features of the areas, their economic viability, as well as ethnic and community interests.

Media outlets continue to differentiate between British East Asian students and East Asian students in the UK education system, portraying the former in a negative, undesirable light, a new study in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies reveals.

Dr Alice Forster, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at University College London, said: «Although around 87 per cent of girls in the UK do have the vaccine it's concerning to see that some girls from some ethnic minority groups feel they don't need to have it.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

While the current study group was composed of men who were of 97 percent white European descent, the results should also apply to women and other ethnic groups, but this should be tested in additional studies, researchers said.

They said the key messages from the study were that stroke is a highly preventable disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional research on stroke risk factors is needed for countries and ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.

These are some of the findings of a recent study published in the journal Psychiatric Services, which reported significant racial - ethnic differences in diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions across 11 private, not - for - profit U.S. healthcare delivery systems.

As chief of the geographic medicine and genetics section of the National Institutes of Health, Blumberg traveled the world and collected blood samples from remote ethnic groups to study inherited variations in blood proteins.

In addition to supporting several protected species, the region is home to a large proportion of ethnic minorities and valuable natural resources, the authors report in the studIn addition to supporting several protected species, the region is home to a large proportion of ethnic minorities and valuable natural resources, the authors report in the studin the study.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

Researchers studying 48 wild elephant families played recordings of voices from two ethnic groups with distinct languages in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.

So I clicked on it: «Because genetic association studies are generally performed in populations of a particular ethnic background [European, Asian, African], we can not know whether the associations will also apply to those of a mixed background.

The key innovation in the study is a method for measuring internet density in the settlement regions of the individual ethnic groups.

Researchers have published a study examining racial and ethnic influences in the outcomes of patients with motor complete spinal cord injury (SCI).

Further research is needed to understand the reasons behind the variation in treatment outcome between ethnic groups and future studies should incorporate ethnicity as a major determinant factor.»

«This continuing gap is disappointing because improving racial and ethnic disparities in access was a key objective of the reform,» said Amresh Hanchate, PhD, of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a study co-author.