Latest Affirmative action Stories

Diversity Focus, a non-profit organization striving to improve the living and working environments for all residents in the Creative Corridor region, is releasing results for its 2013 Creative Corridor Community Survey. The survey is a critical component to attracting, nurturing and retain people of diverse backgrounds, cultures and beliefs. (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Diversity Focus, a non-profit organization striving to improve the living and working environments for all residents in the...

Berkshire expert to examine census updates at 39th Annual AAAA Conference. San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 On May 8, 2013, Sybil Randolph, PHR, a leading compliance and diversity expert at Berkshire Associates, a human resource consulting and technology firm that assists companies in building their ideal, balanced workforce, will examine what compliance professionals can expect when it comes to the new census data and affirmative action planning in her 2013 American Association for...

Principal Business Consultant Julia Mendez to present at the AAAA National Conference and EEOC New Orleans Seminar. Waltham, Mass. (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 Peoplefluent®, a leading social human capital management technology company, announced that Julia Mendez, principal business consultant, Peoplefluent Workforce Compliance and Diversity, will present on diversity and affirmative action at the American Association for Affirmative Action 39th National Conference and Annual Meeting, held...

Beth Ronnenburg, SPHR Explains How New Census Data Impacts Goals Columbia, MD (PRWEB) March 25, 2013 Recently, in an online interview conducted by Bloomberg BNA’s Labor and Employment Blog, Beth Ronnenburg, SPHR, President of Berkshire Associates, discusses how updated data on the U.S. workforce issued by the Census Bureau will affect federal contractors establishing placement goals for women and minorities. In the interview, Ronnenburg also explains key information contractors need to...

Think Beyond the Label's new corporate partnership program will help companies promote their investments in diversity hiring and prepare federal contractors for changes to compliance rules for hiring people with disabilities. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) July 19, 2012 Think Beyond the Label, a public-private collaborative that works to increase employment for qualified job seekers with disabilities, launched a corporate partnership program for federal contractors and other employers seeking to...

Study suggests that racial quotas for college admissions remain the most efficient way to diversify campuses Changes to college admission policies in Texas have been detrimental to Hispanics, according to Dr. Angel Harris and Dr. Maria Tienda from Princeton University in the US. Their work shows that despite popular claims that the “top 10 percent law” has restored diversity to Texas'  flagship universities, Hispanics are more disadvantaged relative to whites under this policy. The...

Highly educated Asians as likely to engage in negative stereotyping as less-educated peers Highly educated whites and minorities are no more likely to support workplace affirmative action programs than are their less educated peers, according to a new study in the March issue of Social Psychology Quarterly, which casts some doubt on the view that an advanced education is profoundly transformative when it comes to racial attitudes. "I think this study is important because there's a...

Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin. Although educational advantages for white over black and pardo (mixed-race) adolescents declined considerably in Brazil, the gap is still significant, with whites completing nearly one year more of education. Sociologist and Population Research Center affiliate Leticia...

The Locate Jobs Network has announced the launch of its niche diversity hiring channel, featuring job boards to assist companies with diversity recruiting of under-represented candidate groups, including women, minorities and service-disabled veterans. Ellicott City, Maryland (PRWEB) August 02, 2011 The Locate Jobs Network, one of the world's largest networks of niche job boards, has expanded its Diversity Hiring Channel and now offers over 200 niche job boards dedicated specifically to...

In the words of sociologist Harkaitz Zubiri, it is currently accepted that social hierarchy is constructed of individual merits, but the reality is quite different. He thus rejects meritocracy. There is no equality in opportunities, nor neutrality in the rules of the game, nor objectivity in the parameters of evaluation, nor of justice; but paths carved out by persons under the effect of a context full of ups and downs. This is what Mr. Zubiri argues in his PhD thesis, presented at the...