Education – Page 64 – 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.

Opinion: We don’t live in a truly color-blind era, do we?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:50+00:00 May 9th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The recent flap over a Cal State San Marcos sorority’s ill-advised theme party and their concomitant slap on the wrist from the university’s PC police focuses attention yet again on race and ethnic identity in what is supposed to be an era of colorblindness.

Read more in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

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Campus ‘chola’ pics spark call for sensitivity

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:50+00:00 May 9th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

SAN MARCOS — Sorority and fraternity leaders at UC San Diego have joined in a call for racial sensitivity on college campuses after a recent incident at Cal State San Marcos in which sorority members dressed as “cholas” posted photos on social networking sites.

Read more in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

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In Settlement With Disabilities Group, Berkeley Will Improve Access to Course Materials

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:50+00:00 May 9th, 2013|Disability, Education|

The University of California at Berkeley has reached a settlement with Disability Rights Advocates in what the group is calling a “landmark agreement” to improve access to textbooks, course readers, and library materials for students with print-related disabilities.

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USC students, others meet with LAPD over alleged racial profiling

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:50+00:00 May 8th, 2013|Education, Police & Community|

On the eve of final exams, more than 700 students and others at USC and neighboring communities gathered on campus to discuss issues raised from a clash between students and police over how the LAPD responded to an off-campus house party over the weekend.

USC students accuse LAPD of bias after party clash

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:50+00:00 May 7th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Students protest after they say officers responded differently to two parties near campus, one attended mostly by black students, the other mostly by whites.

Uncovering Racism: White Greeks in Blackface

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:51+00:00 May 7th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

I must join the recent outrage over White Greek fraternities and sororities (and an Asian fraternity recently) donning blackface and performing blackness on our college campuses. Sights of White Greeks in blackface usually at parties have sparked Black student activism around the nation. It is mobilizing students to demand racial change, to demand a better

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Diverse Docket: LSAT-Takers With Disabilities Win Round in Calif.

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:51+00:00 May 7th, 2013|Disability, Education|

A California civil rights agency can go forward with group claims that the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) illegally discriminates against LSAT-takers with disabilities, a federal judge has held.

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Free-speech issues at center of UC Irvine blackface case

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:51+00:00 May 6th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A fraternity voluntarily accepts a 16-month university suspension, even as administrators have not said whether the discipline would be legally permissible.

Read more in the Orange County Register (you make need a subscription.).

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USC students claim racial profiling by LAPD at house party

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:51+00:00 May 6th, 2013|Education, Police & Community|

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A protest is scheduled at USC Monday in response to what some students claim is a blatant case of racial profiling on behalf of Los Angeles police.

Study Finds Few Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders Among College Leaders

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:51+00:00 May 2nd, 2013|Education|

Though Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders occupy a higher percentage of full-time, tenured faculty positions than do other racial-minority groups, they represent a small percentage of the top leadership positions in higher education, according to a report released on Wednesday by the American Council on Education.

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