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.

Pasadena leads the way in reducing police role on campuses

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:43+00:00 September 23rd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

A new agreement to limit the role of Pasadena police on school campuses marks a California milestone in the national movement to minimize student encounters with the criminal justice system, advocates say.

A Turnabout at Traditionally White Sororities, in Nine Days at Alabama

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:44+00:00 September 23rd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

ATLANTA — Nine days after the University of Alabama’s campus newspaper detailed chronic racial discrimination within the campus’s Greek system, the university’s president said on Friday that six minority students had accepted offers of admission to traditionally white

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Transgender Theology Professor Says University Asked Him to Leave

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:44+00:00 September 23rd, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian institution in Southern California, has asked a professor who was once its chair of theology and philosophy to leave after he came out as transgender, the Religion News Service reported. The professor has been known as Heather Clements for most of his 15 years at Azusa, but in

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U. of Florida Official Says Being White Cost Him His Job

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:44+00:00 September 23rd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Having spent 13 years running a program for economically disadvantaged students at the University of Florida, Dana H. Peterson sees himself as a champion of diversity on college campuses. He is a white man who denies common ideological ground with white men who complain about affirmative action.

As Affirmative Action Continues to be Threatened, Schools Weigh Diversity Options

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:44+00:00 September 23rd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

As the Supreme Court continues its review of affirmative

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It’s Not Just Alabama

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:45+00:00 September 19th, 2013|Education|

The University of Alabama has faced a barrage of criticism over the past several days, after its student newspaper published an account of black students being denied membership into white sororities because of their race.

Broadening the Transgender Agenda

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:45+00:00 September 18th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

Last week, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students marched the mile from campus to the Board of Governors meeting site to protest the UNC System’s blanket ban, imposed by the board, on gender-neutral housing. The new policy — which overturned the Chapel Hill Board of Trustees’ endorsement of the housing option

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Education Attainment Seen as Key to Minority Buying Power Surge

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:45+00:00 September 18th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Minority groups — especially Asians — are flexing greater economic and educational muscle. Ethnic and racial minorities have attained buying power at a faster rate than their White counterparts, according to the 2013 Multicultural Economy report released last week by the University of Georgia.

Cracking the Door Open?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:46+00:00 September 17th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Fifty years after the notorious “stand in the schoolhouse door” to keep black students out of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, the president of the institution is trying to get sororities to open their doors.

Sorority Exposes Its Rejection of Black Candidate

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:18:46+00:00 September 13th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

On the campus of the University of Alabama, accusations that traditionally white sorority chapters had turned down an apparently impeccable candidate simply because she was black hardly came as a surprise.