Sentences with phrase «minority recruitment efforts»

Specialized minority recruitment efforts have been documented which successfully demonstrate that minority families exist for minority children, and which facilitate minority placement.

Despite reports of rigorous minority recruitment efforts, however, more than 90 percent of U.S. teachers are white.

Upcoming Career Fairs & Minority Recruitment Efforts Governor Cuomo also announced that more than two dozen state agencies are discussing public sector careers with college students and all interested job seekers at the 29th annual SOMOS El Futuro Spring Conference on Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19, at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.

«Children need to see someone with whom they can identify — someone who listens to the same music, enjoys the same foods, laughs at the same jokes, cries about the same problems, worships the same way,» Evelyn Dandy, director of a minority recruitment effort at Armstrong Atlantic State University, in Savannah, Georgia, told Education World.

Not exact matches

Similar arguments are rehearsed each time the state undertakes a major construction project: contractors say the makeup of the workforce is dictated by the construction trades, who in turn say they are making their best efforts to diversify, while minority leaders say not enough is done by way of outreach and recruitment.

Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

«Although it is clear that efforts to enhance diversity and inclusion are increasing, it is not clear whether minority faculty development programs are effective in general at enhancing the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority faculty.»

Because recruitment involves all mathematics faculty, their general effort has helped forge close institutional ties with minority and Hispanic - serving institutions.

«The whole effort of the last two decades has been toward minority - teacher recruitment, and it's been an unheralded victory, really,» said Ingersoll, who has been researching the changes in the country's teaching corps of nearly 4 million.

These efforts are likely to be welcomed — and to lead to some improvement in the recruitment and retention of minority teachers.

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The RESCs develop and manage a wide variety of cost - effective, high quality programs including efforts to regionalize special education services, professional development, minority teacher recruitment, English language learner efforts, transportation and a myriad of other programs.

On the day Gov. Dannel Malloy signed a bill regarding minority teacher recruitment, New Haven school officials announced they are stepping up their efforts to hire teachers from diverse backgrounds.

As law firms are cutting back on associate hiring generally, vigorous recruitment efforts that drive minorities to associate programs are apparently no longer necessary.

In addition to these recruitment efforts, participants in multiple sites stressed the importance of being more flexible regarding the types of families deemed acceptable, given the diversity of family composition and characteristics of minority communities.