Sentences with phrase «on racial diversity»

It falls short on racial diversity however; four - fifths of associates are white, while at the partner level it's over 90 %.

Standard received the award from ABA Commission on Racial Diversity in the Profession on February 4, during the ABA's midyear meeting in Miami.

1 This essay will focus on racial diversity in interdistrict magnets, which have appealing alternatives themes and are open to all Connecticut children, regardless of their residence.

African - American parents, by an overwhelming margin, want the public schools to focus on achievement rather than on racial diversity and integration, a survey released last week says.

A few years ago, when I was serving as a preaching pastor at NYC's Redeemer Presbyterian Church, I gave a sermon on racial diversity.

Jones continued: «We would be happy to introduce the (American Atheists president) to any of our millions of members of different ethnicity who would be happy to educate him on our racial diversity.»

Not exact matches

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.

Google and many other technology giants started publicly sharing data on racial and gender diversity in 2014 and have faced pressure to increase the percentage of their workforce that isn't white or Asian men.

The manifesto criticized company initiatives aimed at increasing gender and racial diversity and argued that Google should instead focus on «ideological diversity.»

We talked by phone about why diversity matters, what it means to be a good corporate citizen and whether the President has done enough on the racial divide in America.

Rashad Robinson, executive director of online racial justice organization Color of Change, said in a statement late Tuesday that while he applauded Uber's newfound transparency, «the onus is now on Kalanick and Uber's leadership team to prove that all this public soul - searching isn't just a public relations ploy and to work with advocates and experts to meaningfully increase diversity at the company.»

«If the diversity program is not effective in producing a diverse racial, gender, ethnic workforce, then it's not worth the paper it's written on.»

While Apple is being pressured on its racial makeup, the company has demonstrated diversity elsewhere.

It's a welcome thing, to be sure, in a landscape that are largely dominated by men — the lack of gender and racial diversity among VCs and entrepreneurs and even on tech boards has become a hot - button issue in Silicon Valley.

Campus ministry's No. 2 will continue its commitment to religious freedom on college campuses and racial diversity.

In recent years, intense focus on diversity and multiculturalism has accentuated racial, sexual, ethnic, class, and gender differences on campus, frustrating attempts to imagine the university as a cohesive moral unit with common ends.

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.

In our contemporary situation, there may be no more important issue to preach on than race and racial diversity.

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.»

Another positive associated with adopting transracial children is that this means that parents are embracing the diversity and are more focused on having a child rather than on the cultural or racial differences.

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

Two days after releasing his plan on how to promote diversity in the public school system, Mayor Bill de Blasio faced some tough questions Thursday on his approach to addressing racial segregation in the classroom.

We have also brought on board highly qualified leaders from a diversity of ethnic and racial groups — more action.

Four years ago, Duffy, then the mayor of Rochester, was selected to be Cuomo's number two on the ticket, providing geographic balance at the expense of gender and racial diversity.

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.

The FDNY touted its growing racial and gender diversity as more than 300 probationary firefighters graduated on Wednesday — but that didn't stop a bigot from joining the department.

Without authenticity, racial diversity had no significant effect on feelings of discrimination.

But when racial considerations are based on the pedagogical value of diversity, a deadline makes less sense.

The debate over the use of race in admission decisions has been wrenching, because it demands a trade - off among three worthwhile goals: race - blindness, academic selectivity, and a semblance of racial diversity on selective campuses.

Analyzing racial disparities in policing, charging decisions and trial outcomes, Sommers and Marotta recommend three new policy interventions focused on data, diversity, and training:

A black man enters and asks if the volunteer will consent to a brief interview on the issue of how universities should guarantee racial diversity.

In a study conducted in 2003, Orlando Richard, a professor of management at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his colleagues surveyed executives at 177 national banks in the U.S., then put together a database comparing financial performance, racial diversity and the emphasis the bank presidents put on innovation.

«A lack of diversity could have a significant effect on the development of their racial attitudes and future education and employment.»

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

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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.

Interracial interactions not dating alone is a harbinger of peace as it creates a greater understanding of ethnic diversity, racial characteristics and cultures that exist on this planet.

Interracial interactions not dating alone is a harbinger of peace as it creates a greater understanding of racial characteristics, ethnic diversity and cultures that exist on earth.

An inclusion rider means that those working on a production can request at 50 percent diversity within a production, meaning that in front of and behind the camera, more women, members of the LGBTQ community and people of different racial or ethnic groups must be hired.

His credibility rests in part at least on his irreverence, and online he has appeared unwilling to play it safe, sharing near - the - knuckle gags about the lack of racial diversity in this year's Oscars race with his 13 million Twitter followers.

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.

A growing number of districts looking to right racial imbalances by dedicating staff members to work on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

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 book emphasizes the contradictions, moral conundrums, and tensions on campus related to affirmative action and diversity, and how these vary across racial and national lines.

Indeed, colleges and universities are even frequently evaluated on the racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity of each incoming class of students, and affirmative action...

Neither sector has cause to brag about racial diversity, but it seems clear that the CRP report points its lens in the wrong direction by focusing on the failings of charter schools.

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

But this argument ignores the declines in racial diversity on campus that have taken place after bans on affirmative action and the real - world consequences that these declines have for students of color.»

This year, we decided to focus the conversation on two issues that are especially important to education: racial equity and viewpoint diversity.

A quarter - century after outlawing strict racial quotas in higher education, the U.S. Supreme Court heard powerful arguments last week on whether race can still be one factor among many that colleges use to achieve diversity in admissions.