Education – Page 13 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

Next to complaints relating to law enforcement, the concern for schools and education generates the greatest demand for the attention of human relations commissions. Because school decision making is diffused between boards of education, school administrators, and faculties human rights commissions are usually not able to establish strong working relationships with the education community and special strategies need to be developed.

Outstanding resources and model programs are available that cover just about every facet of education that would be of concern to a commission. Commissions may form education committees to examine specific needs, identify resources and programs, and develop strategies.

Where Colleges Recruit … and Where They Don’t

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-16T09:34:41+00:00 April 16th, 2018|Education|

Stories abound this year about how top colleges are overwhelmed with applications and have no problem filling their classes. For elite public and private institutions, there is truth in those statements. Large shares of their applicants don’t need to be recruited.

But for many colleges, reaching out to students in person at high school events is

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Focus on Diversity at Community Colleges

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-13T09:15:35+00:00 April 13th, 2018|Education|

For many two-year institutions, it didn’t take a racist incident, protest or controversial guest speaker to jump-start efforts to promote more diverse and inclusive campus environments.

Many community colleges are heralded for having diverse student populations. But that perception hasn’t made them complacent, especially as many go beyond their campuses and see cultural clashes happening in

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How to Respond to Racist Incidents

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-12T09:16:10+00:00 April 12th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Paul Young, the president of Sheridan College, was about to meet with Wyoming’s governor to discuss community-college budgets when a call came in — someone had scrawled a racial slur on a whiteboard outside the dorm room of two of Sheridan’s female Native American students.

Then the texts started rolling in — from legislators, and from

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5 Takeaways From Turning Point’s Plan to ‘Commandeer’ Campus Elections

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-10T08:59:05+00:00 April 10th, 2018|Education|

The 28-page Turning Point USA brochure is titled “The Foundational Structure For Winning Back Our Universities,” and it is clearly written with the organization’s donors in mind. Its pages offer a glimpse into the funding and strategy that the controversial conservative nonprofit group has used to try to influence student-government elections at colleges and universities

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California’s Higher Ed Diversity Problem

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-10T08:51:27+00:00 April 10th, 2018|Education|

In 1996, right after voters in California banned affirmative action in employment and college admissions, minority student enrollment at two and four-year institutions plummeted. What has happened since though, is pretty remarkable.

Of the 2.8 million students attending college in California today, two out of three come from racially and ethnically diverse populations. The most eye-popping

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Government Watchdog Finds Racial Bias in School Discipline

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-05T10:14:12+00:00 April 5th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

WASHINGTON — Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress’s nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration’s efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.

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Report Card: States Fail High-Achieving Low-Income Students

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-03-22T09:10:15+00:00 March 22nd, 2018|Education|

States have made little progress in supporting high-achieving, low-income students, according to a new report by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

Released this week, the second edition of the report “Equal Talents, Unequal Opportunities” issued several recommendations for states to promote educational excellence and close income-based “excellence gaps.”

Waiting List: California Leads In Educating the Incarcerated

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-03-22T09:08:00+00:00 March 22nd, 2018|Education, Police & Community|

California leads the nation in offering college opportunities to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students, according to a recent joint study by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center and The Opportunity Institute.

As of fall 2017, nearly 4,500 incarcerated state prison inmates in California were enrolled in face-to-face community college classes in 34 of the state’s 35 prisons,

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San Diego Community College District Models Support for Men of Color

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-03-15T08:40:33+00:00 March 15th, 2018|Education|

San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) has strategically increased its support of Hispanic and Black men in the last few years, making the district a leader in improving outcomes for the historically underserved groups.

Through programs such as Mesa Academy/Umoja, Puente, Hermanos Unidos/Brothers United (HUBU) and the Extended Opportunity Program and Services, the district engages

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A Former Neo-Nazi Lays Bare the Campus Strategy of White Supremacists

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-03-15T08:34:26+00:00 March 15th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Christian Picciolini spent his teens and early 20s handing out hate literature at punk-rock concerts, chanting the American neo-Nazi creed at rallies, and beating up black kids in his suburban Chicago neighborhood.

He was a “white power” skinhead who devoured the racism of The Turner Diaries and toured the United States — and Germany — with

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