Sentences with phrase «racial diversity in»

There are different and unique issues regarding racial diversity in other practice milieus.

Although the lack of racial diversity in Canada is so bad that it's described as a «judiciary of whiteness,» commitments to other forms of diversity might only accentuate the problem.

Toronto freelance lawyer Erin Cowling's blog features frank discussions of gender and racial diversity in the legal profession, along with recaps and feedback on legal industry events and the occasional book review.

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

And that could force the Court to answer a simple but profound question: is the achievement of racial diversity itself in any way «remedial,» and, if it is, what evils does it remedy?»

The report finds that despite increasing racial diversity in the US, the racial composition in environmental organizations has not broken the 12 - 16 % «green ceiling.»

And there is a contingent of curators, collectors, artists, dealers, and others who are working to advance racial diversity in the art world.

Soon after this ruling (commonly referred to as the PICS decision) we convened leading thinkers and litigators to begin talking about ways to best assist educators who still wanted to pursue racial diversity in their schools.

See ED's The State of Racial Diversity in the Educator Workforce for more information.

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.

Reid and Kagan have made a valuable contribution by arguing that greater economic and racial diversity in preschool classrooms is a goal worth pursuing, as it contributes to preschool quality.

Other steps needed to address achievement gaps include better promotions of promising teaching and relationship - building strategies in schools, a review of bias in disciplinary consequences and identification of gifted students, and effective steps to increase racial diversity in Kentucky's teaching force.

A few years ago, at a convening of education advocates, one veteran in the reform movement highlighted the lack of racial diversity in the room...

She is also a co-editor of Lessons in Integration: Realizing the Promise of Racial Diversity in America's Schools (with Gary Orfield), published by the University of Virginia Press (2007).

In essence, the court must decide whether racial diversity in schools is a compelling interest — one that justifies the government's use of race in selecting students for admission to public high schools.

I explored the role of racial diversity in the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College.

First, the great triumph of the civil - rights movement was its success in getting whites to support the principle of racial diversity in the schools.

San Francisco's groundbreaking economic - desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that avoids racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of racial diversity in the schools, given the connection between racial and economic status.

Continuing to promote and support gender and racial diversity in the film business, the London Film Festival bestowed its best...

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.

Prompted by the rise in popularity of online dating, as well as the growing racial diversity in the United States, Richard is predominantly interested in how historic processes of interpersonal attraction are affected by modern advancements in technology and influenced by this increasing racial diversity.

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.

DiNapoli also announced agreements with four Fortune 500 companies to formally include gender and racial diversity in their considerations of board candidates.

He also noted that an inclusionary zoning law might be only one tool among others used to ensure economical and racial diversity in Buffalo's neighborhoods.

The issue of racial diversity in the leadership of CB3 became a hot topic during this past Tuesday night's full board meeting.

IBM and CVS have already done so this year — explicitly stating they will consider gender and racial diversity in their board appointments.

Not exact matches

In an age of racial tension and discrimination, next generation leaders will embrace diversity; welcome differing opinions, ideas, and expressions; and create an open environment that promotes mutual understanding, where people come together for a greater good.

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.

Last year, Intel released a diversity and inclusion report that showed that the company has reached 100 percent gender and racial pay equity in the U.S.

Specifically, their data showed companies in the top 25 percent of racial and ethnic diversity were 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their industry norm.

Coles said that you want to have men involved in initiatives to recruit women and foster leadership among female colleagues in the same way you want white employees involved in initiatives about racial diversity.

Let us begin, then, with one cold, hard - numbered truth: For much of corporate America, racial diversity continues to be at best a challenge — and at worst a flat - out fiction — particularly in the executive ranks.

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.

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.

In fact, she said, she'd had a similar experience at Google, despite its very public efforts toward racial diversity and gender equity.

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.»

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.

«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.»

«Millennials are the most diverse generation in U.S. history — not only in racial diversity, but also political opinion.

According to Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev, organizations with diversity managers, task forces, and intentional mentoring structures report improvements in the representation of women and racial minorities.

Most agree that an effective diversity program is one designed to reduce racial and gender inequality in the American economy.

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.

One could interpret these numbers as showing a shift in the racial diversity of evangelicalism as a whole, or as showing a decline in white evangelicalism, or both.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

I'm very much in favor of pursuing racial, gender and class diversity within colleges.

For example, in light of the self - humbling fulfillment of both law and prophecy in Jesus Christ, biblically sanctioned religious persecution or genocide can never again be even remotely conceived as an answer to religious 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.

In the Tribe, a new world order of harmonic diversity would be prefigured, a white father and black mother raising a dozen children who would retain their respective ethnic and racial identities and realize a multicultural utopia.

«The article, «Race, Diversity, and Membership Duration in Religious Congregations,» said that nine out of ten congregations in the U.S. are segregated — a single racial groups accounts for more than 80 percent of their membership.»

The franchise itself is a massive organism of shifting parts and new ideas, and it shows in its more recent advancements in gender and racial diversity.