Sentences with phrase «to achieve diversity»

The only way to achieve diversity in a choice system is to carefully design a controlled choice policy that consciously seeks diversity.

Of the 91 school districts and charter networks, 25 use magnet schools and 9 use charter schools to achieve their diversity goals.

This session will be a frank and honest discussion about how to more effectively achieve diversity and what that actually looks like.

We talk a lot about achieving diversity — in schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces — in this country.

Or are firms better off achieving diversity not by extending a golden carrot but by wielding a big stick and dumping those firms that fail to meet diversity requirements.

While markedly ahead of the mainstream industry, our commitment to achieving diversity among our filmmakers is still a work in progress.

In other words, achieving diversity alone isn't the final answer, he says.

Nine percent chose achieving diversity and integration, and 11 percent said both.

According to the guidelines, districts must first try to use «race - neutral» approaches when deciding about student assignment to achieve diversity as well as for drawing school boundary lines.

Many companies now realize the need for diversity, but few are taking meaningful steps toward actually achieving diversity and inclusion.

His column to administrators and faculty members, «Suggestions for Achieving Diversity in Academia,» appears on MiSciNet every other month.

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.

Businesses need to work with schools and colleges to genuinely achieve diversity in their workforces.

It even tied 10 % of its executives» bonuses to achieving diversity targets.

Achieving diversity on corporate boards is quickly becoming the next hot spot in activist investing.

Achieving diversity does not involve recruiting students and faculty members from abroad in an attempt to have some semblance of diversity.

P: What surprises me most about studying human behavior from an evolutionary perspective is that humans, despite being genetically quite homogeneous, nevertheless achieve a diversity of behaviors and cultural practices and languages that rivals anything on Earth.

Less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the legality of affirmative action under certain conditions, the Department of Education has issued a report outlining ways that schools and colleges can achieve diversity without relying on racial preferences.

The fact that BTR achieves diversity is in itself a recruitment tool, says program director Jesse Solomon: «I think having a cohort that's half people of color makes a difference to other people of color coming to that program.»

The founder of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Alice Walton commented: «Achieving diversity requires a deeper commitment: To hire and nurture leaders from all backgrounds.

Organizationally, green groups were challenged to achieve diversity within largely all - white staffs.

As well as assisting career development, mentoring programmes can also help firms achieve their diversity goals, says Linklaters managing partner Simon Davies...

To achieve its diversity objectives, Aecon did research into the challenges of creating a diverse workforce in the construction industry, then executed a plan.

Instead of simply ticking boxes to achieve diversity quota targets, organisations need to delve deeper into the culture of their workplaces and identify male and female ambassadors for gender equality.

His column to administrators and faculty, «Suggestions for Achieving Diversity in Academia,» appears on MiSciNet every other month.

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.

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

The thing about achieving diversity and true inclusivity is that intention means nothing.

«Businesses need to work with schools and colleges to genuinely achieve diversity in their workforces,» said Claudia Harris, chief executive of the Careers and Enterprise Company.

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.

Malcom said the difficult challenge of achieving that diversity will be made only tougher if the Court upholds that compelling interest in the Fisher case but puts new restrictions on the means for achieving it.

Not everyone agrees that quotas are the best way to achieve diversity, but most business leaders agree that more female representation is needed.

«Pinterest is putting a huge stake in the ground by setting specific, measurable goals, targets and a 2016 timetable to achieve its diversity and inclusion goals,» he said in a press release.

Or are they more concerned to achieve diversity?

All of our co-op partners also have specialists on staff to assist and train member farmers in sustainable methods, and to help them achieve diversity in their fields and their diets.

, I pointed out one impediment to achieving diversity in the university setting: the lack of conversations dealing with diversity in departments.

«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.»

But embracing difference in a way that does not stereotype or pigeonhole people appears to hold promise for achieving diversity.

Will the departments be part of the solution to achieving diversity or are they part of the problem?

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

The beauty industry still has a way to go in achieving diversity, but «plus - size» models like Philomena Kwao and Paloma Elsesser are using platforms like Instagram to be seen and heard.

For more about the constitutionality of assigning students to schools in order to achieve diversity, see «Affirmative Action Docketed»

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 29) about Wake County, North Carolina, where voters earlier this month elected new school board members who have pledged to undo the county's controversial policy of assigning students to schools based on income (to achieve diversity).

«What the Court required in this decision, and all that it required, is that university officials give careful consideration to the means used to achieve the goal of diversity and that the explicit consideration of race be used only to the extent necessary to achieve 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.

A race - neutral procedure alone does not go far enough in achieving diversity, as shown by the low levels of diversity at The University of Texas prior to 2004 and at elite California institutions that only use race - neutral processes.

In districts that still have enough whites to make integration feasible, magnet schools are viewed as an effective way to achieve that diversity, even in districts where court orders have been lifted or never existed.

Since 2010, the civil rights office has issued detailed directives on eliminating racial disparities in school discipline; the allocation of school resources among racial groups; schools» responsibility for preventing bullying; the use of race - based assignments to achieve diversity; achieving gender equity in intercollegiate and interscholastic sports, and support for pregnant and parenting students.

So rather than ask whether UT has a «compelling interest» in the educational value of student diversity, as some Supreme Court justices are wont to do in the Fisher case, they should ask: Why can't the University of Texas spend.001 percent of its endowment each year to achieve the diversity it seeks without resorting to the double standard of admitting students who aren't prepared?

Ali, R., & Pérez, T.E. Guidance on the Voluntary Use of Race to Achieve Diversity and Avoid Racial Isolation in Elementary and Secondary Schools (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, December 2011).