Education – Page 72 – 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.

Women’s College Basketball Hiring Shows Some Decline in Forward Momentum

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:00+00:00 November 16th, 2012|Education|

Data from Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools with openings for head coaches showed decreases from 2011 in the percentages of people of color being interviewed and on search committees for women’s college basketball vacancies.

Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diverseeducation.com/article/49531/

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Racism and ‘Demographobia’: Anthropologists Discuss Post-Election Mood

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:00+00:00 November 16th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The organizers of this year’s meeting of the American Anthropological Association knew that the presidential election would provide plenty of fodder for scholarly discussions, regardless of whether Mitt Romney or Barack Obama won.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/RacismDemographobia-/135802/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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In Financing of Schools, Defining ‘Adequate’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:00+00:00 November 16th, 2012|Education|

During opening statements in the current trial over how Texas finances its public schools, a lawyer for the state expressed what many were already thinking.

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Affirmative Action Ban in Michigan Is Rejected

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:00+00:00 November 16th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled, 8 to 7, on Thursday that Michigan’s voter-approved 2006 ban on affirmative action was unconstitutional.

For more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/education/michigans-affirmative-action-ban-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html?ref=education&_r=0

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Analysis of U. of California With and Without Affirmative Action

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:00+00:00 November 14th, 2012|Education|

With the U.S. Supreme Court considering a case on the consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, studies continue to appear to shed light on the issues.

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Tenure Decisions at Southern Cal Strongly Favor White Men, Data in a Rejected Candidate’s Complaint Suggest

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:00+00:00 November 14th, 2012|Education|

A female professor at the University of Southern California has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the institution, saying that the decision this year to deny her tenure fits a longstanding pattern in the university’s humanities and social-sciences departments of promoting white men at much higher rates than women and members of minority groups.

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Another College Reports Racially Tinged Disturbance After Obama’s Win

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:01+00:00 November 9th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The incident took place at Hampden-Sydney College, a private institution in Virginia that is one of the few remaining all-male colleges in the United States.

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Ole Miss Chancellor Condemns Angry Student Protest of Obama’s Re-election

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:01+00:00 November 8th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Daniel W. Jones, chancellor of the University of Mississippi, said on Wednesday that university officials were “very disappointed” in the actions of some students who apparently used racial epithets during a protest of President Obama’s re-election Tuesday night on the Oxford campus.

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In Md. Voters’ Approval of Dream Act, Hope for Students and Sign for the Nation

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:01+00:00 November 7th, 2012|Education, Immigration|

Arcos Restaurant, in the Fells Point neighborhood, was abuzz Tuesday night as the Maryland Dream Act was approved with 59 percent of the vote in a referendum, making Maryland the 13th state with a law granting certain undocumented students access to in-state tuition at state colleges.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Hope-for-StudentsSign-for/135596/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Top-Performing Low-Income Students and College Choice

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:01+00:00 October 29th, 2012|Education|

Each cohort of high-school students includes some 35,000 who are high-achieving and low-income—their test scores are in the top 10 percent and their income is in the bottom quarter. But new research shows that many of them are not applying to the colleges where they would probably have the best outcomes.