Education – Page 39 – 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.

Oklahoma President’s Swift Action on Racist Video Carries Risks

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 11th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

In the 48 hours since several University of Oklahoma fraternity members were caught on video singing a racist anthem, President David L. Boren has acted quickly. Just hours after the video emerged, he called the students “disgraceful” and said he hoped they would leave Norman. And on Tuesday he expelled two who had led the

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Racism in Oklahoma Frat Video Is Widespread at Colleges, Researcher Says

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 10th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity became the focus of outrage on Monday as a result of the online posting of a video that shows its members celebrating the chapter’s exclusion of African-American men in a song containing a racial slur and lynching reference. The video, leaked to the

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‘How Did You Get Here?’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 10th, 2015|Disability, Education|

The students profiled in How Did You Get Here? Students With Disabilities and Their Journeys to Harvard (Harvard Education Press) had much to overcome. They faced a range of disabilities and also attitudes of some who demeaned them and suggested that they wouldn’t amount to much. The book is based on interviews with the

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Deadliest and Most Racist?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 10th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

This article contains explicit and potentially offensive terms that are essential to reporting on this situation.

Two months before the Civil War began, Noble Leslie DeVotie was boarding a steamship when he slipped, fell into the waters of Mobile Bay and drowned.

Transgender Issues Put Women’s Colleges to the Test

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 10th, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

With transgender issues and rights receiving more and more public attention, some women’s colleges are facing them while others avoid the challenge of reconsidering admission policies and student parameters.

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UC campuses roiled over claims of anti-Israel bias

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 9th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict keep seeping into campus life at the University of California.

In 2010, a group of Muslim student protesters disrupted a UC Irvine speech by the Israeli ambassador and later faced school discipline and criminal prosecution that their defenders considered overly harsh.

Last year, the UCLA student government debated whether representatives who

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In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 6th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

LOS ANGELES — It seemed like routine business for the student council at the University of California, Los Angeles: confirming the nomination of Rachel Beyda, a second-year economics major who wants to be a lawyer someday, to the council’s Judicial Board.

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Still at a Disadvantage

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 6th, 2015|Education|

Throwing another wrench into the belief that higher education is the great equalizer, a new paper suggests that African-American graduates from elite institutions do only as well in getting jobs as white candidates from less-selective institutions.

The study, published in the journal Social Forces, shows that while a degree from an elite university

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Jews Need Not Apply?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 March 3rd, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A University of California at Los Angeles student was nearly denied a position on the student government’s judicial board last month after student representatives questioned whether her ties to the Jewish community were a conflict of interest.

RISE to Focus on Strategies to Boost Achievement for Males of Color

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 February 26th, 2015|Education|

In the wake of President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, a new effort has sprung up to devote research and resources to better serving boys and young men of color.

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