Sentences with phrase «of achieving diversity»

The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice on Tuesday sent a letter providing guidance to confirm that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, issued last month, leaves untouched previous Court holdings on the permissibility of race - conscious methods of achieving diversity goals at elementary and secondary schools.

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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.

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.

I was impressed with the number of executives who highlighted their recognition that diversity is a strength, and who shared their best practices with us, innovative approaches that they are taking to achieve their goals.

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 Republicans.

Programs should be reviewed at least annually to assess whether they are effectively and efficiently achieving such marketing and enterprise objectives as acquisition of Millennial customers, share of Millennial spending, customer retention, advocacy, employee diversity, and improved brand image or fame.

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 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.

«His leadership is a testament to the level of a supplier diversity process can achieve with unwavering commitment.»

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

To achieve this, you'll need to pay attention to four critical ingredients: the strength of your sources, the quality of your content, the placement of your link, and the overall diversity of your offsite strategy.

We achieve amazing things by connecting and leveraging the diversity of skills, experiences and backgrounds of our entire organization.

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...

Supreme Court justices disagree on the virtues of diversity and the means for achieving it.

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

Finally where I am at bringing diversity to my income, I am at 3.5 % below my target of 4 % hoping to achieve 6 % by next financial year.

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

But the liveliness of the seminary students» discussion, and the urgency which characterized their grappling with the dilemmas of diversity — theological, practical and personal — indicate that seminaries are nevertheless training people who are, despite all obstacles, eager to achieve the impossible.

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.

«To achieve progress, we must take the harder path of breaking down barriers, building bridges and standing up for tolerance and diversity.

The traditional ecumenical goal, «organic unity» among the churches, has fallen on bad days, largely because it is thought to call for a needless suppression of diversity achieved through a generation or more of ecclesiastical self - preoccupation.

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.»

Part of the Global Exploration of Human Milk Study (GEHM) shows that the dietary diversity of an urban U.S. city falls significantly below that of the diversity achieved by the Shanghai site.

With its strong commitment to cultural and economic diversity, the Cincinnati Waldorf School relies heavily on the success of its annual fundraising to achieve a balanced budget each year.

There's a lesson from organisations who've improved their diversity: the importance of relentless focus on the mechanisms that achieve it.

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.»

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.

Businessman Nick Stankevich's campaign said he was told he would not be on the panel due to the «diversity of thought» the organizers are trying to achieve.

It's a good idea not to have entire press corps hunting as a pack against you if you achieve an element of diversity (with one tab for and another against) then that's a good position.

«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.»

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.

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.

Despite these dismal results, the authors say the study underscores opportunities to achieve goals set by the Convention on Biological Diversity to protect 10 percent of marine biodiversity by 2020.

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

But Orfield said «the best evidence suggests that none of them can effectively achieve diversity.»

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

Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, says she has seen many high - achieving African American undergraduates suffer from a lack of guidance; she has led diversity - increasing programs at Harvard and at MIT.

Supreme Court justices disagree on the virtues of diversity and the means for achieving it.