By Colleen Flaherty. Boston College and UC Riverside share how they quickly hired more faculty members from underrepresented minority groups, without relying on hard numerical targets or costly initiatives. More...
10 octobre 2017
8 octobre 2017
From Unruly Hearts to Open Minds
Michael S. Roth examines campus intellectual diversity in the age of polarization. More...
8 octobre 2017
Latinxs in Academe
Latinx students’ higher enrollment in colleges and universities in the United States should produce hope. But the attrition rate is higher for Latinx students than for their peers from other racial and ethnic groups. That lower rate of undergraduate completion is reflected at the graduate level as well: a recent report shows that less than 1 percent of Latinxs hold Ph.D.s -- far fewer than Asians, whites and African-Americans. More...
8 octobre 2017
White Men Must Learn to Say Yes
Rather than encourage women and people of color to do less service work, we should be encouraging white men to step forward and do more, argues Shannon Portillo. More...
8 octobre 2017
Getting Up to Speed on Diversity
Employers are increasingly requiring job applicants to demonstrate both commitment and contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion, writes Deborah S. Willis, who gives advice to graduate students on how to do so. More...
29 septembre 2017
Diversité et Égalité professionnelle, la Direccte de Normandie s’engage !
L’égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes ainsi que la diversité sont au cœur des valeurs et des missions de la fonction publique et plus précisément des politiques portées par les ministères sociaux.
Localement, l’ex Direccte Basse-Normandie a obtenu le label diversité en 2012 pour 4 ans. Aujourd’hui, c’est l’ensemble de la Direccte Normandie qui s’engage et prépare sa candidature pour obtenir le renouvellement du label diversité et le label égalité professionnelle. Ce label atteste de la mise en place d’une politique de promotion de la diversité et de lutte contre les discriminations au sein de notre administration. Plus...
22 septembre 2017
Rethinking international students: reaching unity in diversity
There is no doubt that higher education (HE) has entered an era of change. It is widely believed that international students require special attention and support. However, recent trends, such as the world-wide massification of HE, the growing use of information technologies in teaching and ongoing globalisation of HE result in increasingly diverse student populations. More...
22 septembre 2017
A Push to Increase Diversity at Canada’s Universities
The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program invests roughly $265 million every year to attract and retain top talent from around the world in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences. More...
20 septembre 2017
People on the move: growing mobility, increasing diversity
International human mobility is on the rise. Increasing numbers of people are regularly coming and going across borders, and societies are growing increasingly diverse as a result. This raises some important questions. How can we ensure public services are accessible to a more diverse population? How can we ensure that respectful communication across languages and cultures is supported in society? A new Trends Shaping Education Spotlight discusses how education can be harnessed to tackle these questions and other implications of increasing mobility and diversity. More...
20 septembre 2017
College diversity officer – Demanding job, low resources
By Sarah Brown, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Seven months ago, Mark Brimhall-Vargas became Brandeis University’s chief diversity officer. He was the first person to hold that job, though he has spent about 20 years doing diversity work in higher education in the United States. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)