Education – Page 78 – 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.

Faculty Groups Accuse Texas A&M Campus of Retaliating Against Adjunct

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:42+00:00 June 4th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Two prominent national faculty organizations have accused Texas A&M University at San Antonio of dismissing an adjunct lecturer for publicly criticizing how the university had handled the intimidation she encountered when she complained about Christian crosses on a campus building.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Groups-Accuse-Texas/132103/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Asian American Group Files Supreme Court Brief Opposing Race-Conscious Affirmative Action

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:43+00:00 May 31st, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The 80-20 National Asian American Educational Foundation and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights have filed an amicus brief Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the plaintiff in the Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action case. The case is likely to result in a definitive ruling on the legality

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Former Top Civil-Rights Officials Ask Supreme Court to Curb Racial Preferences

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:43+00:00 May 31st, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Twenty-two current and former federal civil-rights officials have joined in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin, arguing that it oversteps not only the Education Department’s guidelines but also legal advice given to colleges by higher-education groups.

Students Press for Action on Immigration

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:43+00:00 May 31st, 2012|Education, Immigration|

Young illegal immigrants, saying President Obama has done little to diminish the threat of deportations they face despite repeated promises, have started a campaign to press him to use executive powers to allow them to remain legally in the country.

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Epithet that divides Mexicans is banned by Oxnard school district

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:43+00:00 May 30th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

‘Oaxaquita’ (little Oaxacan) is used by other Mexicans to demean their indigenous compatriots — who are estimated to make up 30% of California’s farmworkers.

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Indian-American Groups Urge Supreme Court to End Race-Conscious Admissions

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:43+00:00 May 30th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A national federation of more than 200 Indian-American groups has joined two other prominent Indian organizations in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to end race-conscious college admissions in a case involving the University of Texas at Austin.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Indian-American-Groups-Urge/132037/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Public Money Finds Back Door to Private Schools

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:43+00:00 May 25th, 2012|Education|

When the Georgia legislature passed a private school scholarship program in 2008, lawmakers promoted it as a way to give poor children the same education choices as the wealthy.

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At CUNY, Stricter Admissions Bring Ethnic Shift

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:44+00:00 May 23rd, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

More than a decade after the City University of New York ended open admissions to its four-year colleges, a marked shift has occurred at its top institutions as freshman classes now enter with far better academic credentials and also a different demographic mix….

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Colorado is latest to reconsider zero-tolerance school policies

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:44+00:00 May 23rd, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Shortly after a 6-year-old boy was suspended for singing a pop song to a girl — deemed sexual harassment — Colorado moved to ease disciplinary policies in schools, as other states have.

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Op-Ed: UC problem: When academics are advocates

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:44+00:00 May 21st, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Political advocacy corrupts academic institutions. Why? Because the mind-set of a genuine academic teacher is in every important respect the opposite of a political activist’s. Academic teachers want to promote independent thought and analytical skills; political activists want conformity. The one fosters intellectual curiosity and encourages opposing viewpoints; the latter seeks to shut it down…

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