Education – Page 22 – 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.

A Campus on Edge Over Racial Tensions Is Shut Down by a Threat

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-06-02T09:51:43+00:00 June 2nd, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Evergreen State College shut down temporarily on Thursday after a semester of racial tensions that inflamed the Olympia, Wash., institution, and in recent days placed it in the national spotlight. College officials asked students to leave the campus or return to their dorms in the mid-morning, The Seattle Times reported, after local officials alerted them

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Who Defines What Is Racist?

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-30T09:31:25+00:00 May 30th, 2017|Education|

In the heated debates of campus politics these days, it is not unusual for some groups (on or off campus) to demand the firing of a faculty member. But the rancor at Evergreen State College over the last week stands out. There, a professor whom some students want fired was told by the campus police

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How Can Colleges Respond to Extremist Activity Among Students?

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-25T09:01:26+00:00 May 25th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Bias-related incidents and hate-group propaganda on college campuses have recently captured greater public attention as America’s political climate has become more charged. Since President Trump’s election, many people with far-right, racist, and sexist views have felt emboldened to speak freely.

Fliers promoting white supremacy, swastikas, and other offensive symbols and language targeting racial and religious

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Study: Tech Workforce’s Lack of Diversity Goes Deeper than Pipeline

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-23T09:06:08+00:00 May 23rd, 2017|Education, Employment & Housing|

As Howard University and Internet giant Google launch a summer residency program to boost hiring of underrepresented minorities in the technology sector, a recent study suggests that the top reasons for the field’s racial homogeneity isn’t the absence of a diverse pipeline but young graduates’ lack of industry contacts and an information gap about job

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Another school rating system, more data on racial, ethnic disparities

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-22T09:14:24+00:00 May 22nd, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Using a new, multimeasure school rating system, the Oakland-based nonprofit GreatSchools has produced a fresh look at a stubbornly persistent problem: racial and ethnic gaps in student achievement in California schools.

Among the findings in “Searching for Opportunity,” which was released on last week:

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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Mizzou’s Freshman Enrollment Has Dropped by 35% in 2 Years. Here’s What’s Going On.

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-22T08:56:02+00:00 May 22nd, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

This fall the University of Missouri at Columbia will welcome its smallest freshman class in nearly two decades. As of this month, just 4,009 first-time freshmen had made enrollment deposits, a decline of 35 percent from the 2015 class of 6,191 students.

The precipitous drop is striking for a public flagship with a prominent national brand,

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The States Where Campus Free-Speech Bills Are Being Born: A Rundown

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-15T09:43:12+00:00 May 15th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A wave of proposed legislation on campus free speech is making its way through statehouses across the nation. Last week Tennessee’s governor, Bill Haslam, signed into law a measure that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education called “the most comprehensive state legislation protecting free speech on college campuses that we’ve seen passed anywhere in

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Racial tensions inflame UCLA student body election, driving calls for more representation

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-09T09:31:26+00:00 May 9th, 2017|Education|

At UCLA, the furor started with a photo of the undergraduate student body president, making a hand sign associated with the Bloods.

Danny Siegel is white. He was wearing a suit and tie.

Many African American students were angered by what they saw as a man of white privilege mocking their community and clueless about the poverty

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What it’s like to be a teen in L.A. with a parent in the U.S. illegally

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-08T10:37:23+00:00 May 8th, 2017|Education, Immigration|

It was hard not to eavesdrop in the tiny Pico-Union studio where Maria Garcia grew up.

She was around 9 when her father came home one day from his low-wage job as a garment worker and told her mother about the immigration raid at his downtown L.A. factory. She could hear their relief that her father

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Life and Combat for Republicans at Berkeley

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-05-08T10:23:25+00:00 May 8th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

BERKELEY, Calif. — On this famously liberal campus, it is easy to dismiss Berkeley Republicans as an oxymoron. Being a Republican at the University of California, Berkeley, is hard, conservative students say, a crucible of ideological combat. Some said they had been

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