Diversity Management, News and Updates
In a dual win for advocates of diversity in education, judges in Virginia and Connecticut have issued rulings supporting admissions standards that bolster diverse enrollment for both high school and college-aged students. In the first case, Pete Williams from NBC News has reported that the Justice Department has granted “voluntary…
William Latson, the Florida high school principal who refused to say the Holocaust was factual, has been fired. The principal of the Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton came under national fire in July for an email he sent to a parent in April 2018 that said as…
Marlon Anderson was a security guard at West High School in the Madison School District in Wisconsin for 11 years. But he was abruptly fired after a Black student called him the N-word multiple times — and Anderson told him not to, while also using the word. “Every type of…
The principal of a high school in New Orleans has made national headlines for his decision to support his staff rather than have free food. According to WWL-TV, Dr. Steven Corbett, principal of Lusher High School, declined free lunches for the school’s teachers as part of an event that was…
Fruitport High School in Michigan is being considered a sign of the future. It is undergoing a $48 millionconstruction project that will add curved hallways to reduce a gunman’s bullet range, jutting barriers to provide cover and egress and spaced classrooms that can lock on demand and hide students in…
As part of their internship, Abbott’s (No. 10 on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity) high school STEM interns learned to create prosthetic hands. The company — ranked No. 14 on DiversityInc’s specialty list, “Top Companies for Mentoring” — offers several internships for high school and college students, ranging in…
Season Bennett and her husband are owners of Headlines Barbershop in Charlotte, North Carolina, and they found themselves particularly inspired after Billionaire investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith was the commencement speaker at Morehouse College- announced that he would be paying off the student debt of an entire class of college…
Marriott International’s (No. 9 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) Ray Bennett, Chief Global Officer of Global Operations, and Dick Marriott, Chairman of the Board of Host Hotels, recently hosted approximately 80 students from local schools, including Woodrow Wilson High School, Columbia Heights Education Campus, Ballou High School, and…
By Sheryl Estrada Photo by Shutterstock The national high school graduation rate reached a record high of 81.4 percent, according to the 2015 report”Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic.” The report is by Civic Enterprises, Everyone Graduates Center at the School of…
