Education – Page 36 – 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.

Black Faculty Expected to Entertain When Presenting

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 August 24th, 2015|Education|

Black faculty members are expected to be “entertaining” when presenting their academic research to their mostly White peers.

That’s the findings of a new study conducted by Dr. Ebony O. McGee, an assistant professor of education, diversity and urban schooling at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development who co-authored the article “Entertainers or Education

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Can Universities Fix the Police?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:25+00:00 August 18th, 2015|Education, Police & Community|

On a Sunday evening in July, Robin S. Engel was watching her daughter’s basketball game when her phone rang. It was the police.

A man had just been shot, an assistant chief of the Cincinnati Police Department told her. It happened near the University of Cincinnati, where Ms. Engel worked as a professor of criminal

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Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:25+00:00 August 17th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Even with tuition shooting up, the payoff from a college degree remains strong, lifting lifelong earnings and protecting many graduates like a Teflon coating against the worst effects of economic downturns.

But a new study has found that for black and Hispanic college graduates, that shield is severely cracked, failing to protect them from

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Division in Christian Higher Ed

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:25+00:00 August 13th, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

Union University, in Tennessee, has quit the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, saying it cannot remain in a Christian group in which some member institutions will hire people in same-sex marriages.

Many Paths to Diversity

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:26+00:00 July 21st, 2015|Education|

The U.S. Supreme Court this fall will hear arguments about whether colleges have the constitutional right in certain circumstances to consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions. The case has the leaders of many colleges that do consider those factors worried about what they will do if the court rules against the University of Texas

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Breakthrough for Gay Christian Professors

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:26+00:00 July 21st, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

Two Christian colleges — Eastern Mennonite University and Goshen College — announced Monday that they will change their hiring procedures to permit the hiring of faculty members who are in same-sex marriages.

While such a policy would not be surprising at most colleges and universities, it represents a dramatic shift in Christian higher education. Eastern Mennonite and Goshen

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Colleges Brace for Supreme Court Review of Race-Based Admissions

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:27+00:00 July 1st, 2015|Education|

The Supreme Court’s decision to reconsider a challenge to affirmative action at the University of Texas at Austin has universities around the country fearing that they will be forced to abandon what remains of race-based admission preferences and resort to more difficult and expensive methods if they want to achieve student diversity.

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Minorities Less Likely To Be Identified as Disabled

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:27+00:00 June 30th, 2015|Disability, Education|

Racial and language minority students in elementary and middle school are less likely than their White, English-speaking peers to be identified as having learning disabilities, according to a new national study.

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Supreme Court Will Again Hear ‘Fisher’ Case on Race-Conscious Admissions

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:27+00:00 June 29th, 2015|Education|

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday again agreed to hear a legal challenge to the race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin, setting the stage for new arguments in a closely watched case that the justices decided once before, in 2013.

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Rachel Dolezal Case Leaves a Campus Bewildered and Some Scholars Disgusted

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:21+00:00 June 17th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

As of last Friday, Rachel A. Dolezal was no longer an employee of Eastern Washington University. But the former adjunct instructor of Africana education, who has become the focus of a fierce debate about race and identity, may have a higher profile on campus than ever before.

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