Diversity Management, News and Updates
By Chris Hoenig Race, income and location play a significant role in determining a parent’s confidence in his or her child’s education, a new Associated PressNORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll says. While Black and Latino parents and low-income and urban families have more worries about public education than…
By Chris Hoenig In a decision that indicates a compromise among the justices, the Supreme Court has elected not to rule on a challenge to affirmative action argued before it late last year. The 7-to-1 ruling from the court provides a small victory for opponents of affirmative action, vacating a…
By Manuel McDonnell Smith Twenty-three-year-old Abigail Fisheris a recent college graduate who has already landed a job in the financial-services industry in trendy Austin, Texas. In today’s economic climate for college graduates, she could be considered among the lucky few to have found employment and be on the way to…
By Lisa Cochrane At Allstate, we have a long history of marketing and advertising to the African-American market. Our Quotes for Education program, established in 2009 to raise scholarship funds for financially struggling African-American students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), is one way we’re empowering a key market…
By Tierra Moore Piens, The Greenlining Institute Philanthropy changes lives. I know, because it changed mine. When I arrived at UCLA my first prioritywasn’tmaking new friends or signing up for student organizations it was finding a job. And I did. I knew that financing my college education was going to…
By Chris Hoenig Flashon Studio/Shutterstock Hispanic high-school graduates are now enrolling in college at a higher rate than white graduates, according to a study from the Pew Research Hispanic Center. The study found that a record 69 percent of Hispanic graduates from the class of 2012 have enrolled in higher…
Diversity and inclusion may become an easier task in upcoming decades for companies looking to recruit and leverage a diverse workforce for business success. The U.S. Census Bureau’s latest report shows that the population is naturally becoming more diverse: More than half (50.4 percent) of babies born in the United…
Talent developmentand early identification of future potential hold the key for INROADS’ aspiring low-income students. And if anyone understands what it takes to pull yourself up from poverty and reach the highest levels of corporate America, it’sForest T. Harper. Read personal stories fromtwo INROADS interns:Talent Development Creates Ability for INROADS…
DiversityInc’s Luke Visconti was the keynote speaker at The Skanner Foundation’s 21st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast in Portland, Ore. More than 1,200 people attended: What would King say Bernie Foster built a bridge by asking me to speak at this event–a white publisher invited by a black publisher…
Ernst & Young takes its talent seriously. That’s why the professional-services firm isn’t leaving the quality of its future workforce to chance. Its leaders are taking the initiative by engaging traditionally underrepresented students before they graduate from college as well as helping administrators and faculty members address existing diversity gaps…
