Education – Page 37 – 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.

Report: Student Loan Debt Stratified by Race, Class

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:22+00:00 June 5th, 2015|Education|

t’s well known that graduating college students in recent years have faced student loan debt at unprecedented levels far exceeding that of previous generations of American graduates. Nonetheless, a new report released by the New York-based Demos public policy organization documents the patterns of debt along racial and class lines with Black, Latino, and low-income

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Canada’s Forced Schooling of Aboriginal Children Was ‘Cultural Genocide,’ Report Finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:22+00:00 June 3rd, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

OTTAWA — Canada’s former policy of forcibly removing aboriginal children from their families for schooling “can best be described as ‘cultural genocide.’ ”

That is the conclusion reached by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission after six

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Firing of Seton Hall Priest Highlights a Catholic Debate on Gay Believers

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:22+00:00 June 1st, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

When the Rev. Warren Hall called a reporter for the gay sports website Outsports.com last week to discuss his firing as director of Seton Hall University’s campus ministry, there was a certain logic to his move.

Father Hall was, after all, both a sports fan

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White Like You: The Challenge of Getting White Students to Grapple With Racial Identity

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:22+00:00 May 29th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When Frances E. Kendall talks to college leaders about race, she tends to hear a lot of facts and figures about minorities.

Three percent black. Five percent Asian. Three percent Latino. And maybe one or two Native Americans.

And then the numbers stop.

“No one says, ‘We have this many white students,’” says Ms. Kendall, a consultant who

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My Title IX Inquisition

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:22+00:00 May 29th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When I first heard that students at my university had staged a protest over an essay I’d written in The Chronicle Review about sexual politics on campus — and that they were carrying mattresses and pillows — I was a bit nonplussed. For one thing, mattresses had become a symbol of student-on-student sexual-assault

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New Group Seeks to Blacklist Pro-Palestinian Student Activists

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:22+00:00 May 28th, 2015|Education|

A secretive new organization called Canary Mission has established a slick website intended to identify pro-Palestinian activists on American college campuses and prevent them from getting jobs, The Forward reports.

The group’s website profiles more than 50 students, recent graduates, and faculty members whom it denounces as “anti-freedom, anti-American, and anti-Semitic.” The group

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Less than a quarter of working-age black adults in California have a bachelor’s degree

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:22+00:00 May 28th, 2015|Education|

Despite significant education gains made in recent decades, working-age blacks in California are only about half as likely as whites to have a bachelor’s degree, according to a new report.

More than 90 percent of these black adults have a high school diploma but only 23 percent have at least a bachelor’s degree versus 42 percent

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When Students Are Disowned Over Sexuality or Gender, Some Colleges Lend Them a Hand

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:23+00:00 May 27th, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

When they encounter a student who has unexpectedly dropped out of class, or who is showing the strain of working multiple jobs, professors and administrators sometimes hear a distressing explanation: My parents cut me off, and I’m not sure what I’m going to do.

Often a thread connects their stories: The students are lesbian, gay, bisexual,

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Maligned Study on Gay Unions Is Shaking Trust

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:23+00:00 May 26th, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

He was a graduate student who seemingly had it all: drive, a big idea and the financial backing to pay for a sprawling study to test it.

In 2012, as same-sex marriage advocates were working to

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A Wave of Hispanic Students Reshapes a Historically Black College

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:23+00:00 May 14th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Cinco de Mayo is a low-key celebration at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black institution that began in the late 1800s to educate freed slaves and their children.

But it has taken on a more personal significance for a growing number of students at this small, private institution where one in five students today is Hispanic.

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