Sentences with phrase «participation by minority»

The program's goal is to encourage additional participation by minority students and students from disadvantaged households in environmental law, policy, and management.

So did APIP improve AP participation by minority and low - income students?

Charging that America is «moving backward» in its efforts to ensure full participation by minority citizens in the nation's life and prosperity, a panel of leaders from education, business, and government last week urged all segments of the society to work toward boosting opportunities for minorities.

Gov. David Paterson said this recently created position would be critical to keeping some of his work to increase participation by minority - and women - owned businesses in the state, and some Hispanic leaders pressured Cuomo to fill the office with a person of Hispanic descent.

While the 1st Congressional District has traditionally been flipped in mid-term election years, the current political climate makes it difficult to predict whether it could turn Democrat again without the boost in voter turnout typically seen in a presidential election year, when the party benefits from increased participation by minority and female voters.

Article 15 - A of New York State Executive Law, § § 310 - 318 (Participation by Minority Group Members and Women with Respect to State Contracts), was enacted July 19, 1988 and amended in 2011 to promote economic opportunities and equality of employment for minority group members and women in State contracting activities.

But their basic assertion was that the county has no legal basis for requiring 30 percent participation by minority - and women - owned businesses.

Cox, the son - in - law of President Richard Nixon, also shares memories of his first convention during the turbulence of 1968, and discusses tactics to boost participation by minorities.

The results also evidence greater participation by minorities and low - income individuals under New York City's public matching fund system.

Not exact matches

During 2016, we've tracked participation in our accelerator programs and have made measurable progress to increase participation by women and underrepresented minorities within our applicant pool, mentors, and staff.

Researchers found up to 40 percent of visible minority job seekers «whiten» their resumes by using an Anglicized version of their name or removing their participation in multicultural organizations.

Nevertheless, critics charge that this may discourage participation by several sectors of the electorate, such as students and ethnic minorities.

Although this proposal was sniffed at by some members of the Scottish Nationalist Party on Monday, the government was only aiming to implement exactly what SNP MPs demanded when we originally set the Committee up, without minority party participation.

Minority Members of Parliament will join forces with the Ghana First Patriotic Front (GFPF) and all other groups who have so far registered their displeasure by expressing their unflinching support and participation in tomorrow's march of destiny.

By Sean Ryan The level of minority participation in construction apprenticeships is frustrating the leaders of the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP.

The Louis Stokes Missouri Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), which includes each of the publicly funded baccalaureate - degree - offering institutions in the state and several state governmental agencies, was recently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to begin a second 5 - year project.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is known for its scholarly involvement in fields like oceanography and the weather, but one program seeks to increase minority participation in the marine, environmental, and atmospheric sciences by offering internships and academic courses in these fields.

He chose UC Irvine, persuaded largely by a minority scholarship offered through the university's NSF - funded California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) minority scholarship offered through the university's NSF - funded California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) Minority Participation (CAMP) program.

I was well prepared for graduate study in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, by the historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (AUC, consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown Colleges), as well as by Georgia Tech, an institution that graduates more minority engineers than most other engineering schools because of its participation in the dual - degree engineering program, a partnership with minority - serving institutions.

Q: Your bill talks a lot about broadening participation in science by women and underrepresented minorities.

It practices this principle in the selection and promotion of its employees and by opening its membership to all who are interested; by encouraging its nominating committees to nominate both women, minority, and handicapped scientists and engineers for the elective positions; and by attempting to increase the participation of women, minority, and handicapped scientists and engineers in all of its activities.

It practices this principle in the selection and promotion of its employees and by opening its membership to all who are interested; by encouraging its nominating committees to nominate women, minority, and handicapped scientists and engineers for elective positions; and by attempting to increase the participation of women, minority, and handicapped scientists and engineers in all of its activities.

The participation of minorities in the earth sciences is extremely small, and AESEDA is helping to increase the number of minorities entering the field by providing networking opportunities.

«NSF is used to providing grants to universities, and one of its missions is to increase participation by underrepresented minorities in science, which this infrastructure program will do by giving students and faculty members the tools to be successful.»

In the language of the federal law: «Where inability to speak and understand the English language excludes national origin minority group children from effective participation in the educational program offered by a school district, the district must take affirmative steps to rectify the language deficiency in order to open its instructional program to these students.»

They are expected to focus on the need to increase participation in science and engineering by women, minorities, and the handicapped.

Schools must still conduct an evaluation of the «content and effectiveness» of a parent and family engagement policy and still identify «barriers to greater participation by parents in activities authorized by this section (with particular attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, are disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background).»

Most of the legal profession signed up to the scheme, but because of location, or because they could not offer the particular skills needed by the disadvantage or because their participation in the scheme was no more than a demonstration of moral support, the active legal aid lawyers were always a small minority of the profession as a whole.

At the same time that the legal profession seems to be excluding full participation by women and minorities, globalization is putting lawyers in contact with clients from other cultures and in countries beyond our own.

«Our democracy faces challenges today that can be remedied by state courts, from entrenched gerrymandering that dilutes and distorts voters» influence in elections to barriers to voting participation that disproportionally impact historically disenfranchised minorities.»

They've tried to cut funding in every way possible: by illegally preventing Planned Parenthood health centers from serving patients enrolled in Medicaid, or serving patients through essential programs such as Title X, and they've also gone after our participation in specific initiatives like the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); the Minority AIDS Initiative; and STI prevention programs.