Just came across this interesting tidbit via Social Media Today regarding Social Media and Diversity. According to one study, “a higher percentage minorities are visiting social networking sites on a weekly basis than their non-ethnic counterparts” Graphic via Social Media Today.
Forbes highlights the good work being done by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) in moving Latinos toward STEM careers. The article makes a key point: As Americans seem to be eschewing key white-collar STEM jobs too, now comes the next and most important chapter of the Hispanic immigration experience in America: how to…
Maria Martinlolich at College Diversity enlightens us about the importance of women on college campuses: When you saw the title of this post, I hope you weren’t thinking that this post is all about feminism. That’s the one mistake people make in regards to learning about women in college; people have the impression that people…
Council of the Great City Schools just released a study which outlines the many challenges facing Latinos educationally. Latinos lag behind Whites in most areas of education including college attainment: In postsecondary experience, the unemployment rate of the Hispanic population ages 20 and older in early 2011 was 12 percent compared with 8 percent of…
The Economist digs into why women still haven’t reached the professional success of men – in all aspects of the organizational workplace: And despite sheaves of equal-pay legislation, women get paid less than men for comparable work. That is partly because they often work in different fields, and many of them are part-timers with lower…
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Mariko Chang at The Hill argues that college students will be challenged to pay off student debt, especially for Latinos and African Americans graduates. The odds of paying off college debt are much tougher for minority graduates, particularly Black men, who face far higher unemployment than their White counterparts. More than 25 percent of Black…
This is a great study by Stanford University’s Center for Education Policy Analysis regarding academic achievement and family income. The results shed additional light on the impact of parental income and student achievement. Interesting stuff. Finally, the growing income achievement gap does not appear to be a result of a growing achievement gap between children…
College grads hoping to make it to Wall Street as consultants are facing the realities of the current economy: Several large firms are not recruiting new entry-level analysts for their investment banking divisions this fall, having filled their entire incoming class with last summer’s interns. At the University of Pennsylvania, whose Wharton School is the…
Cultural training for teachers? A good idea given the socio-economic differences between students and teachers in many urban areas around the country: Cultural competency” training is designed to give teachers techniques and strategies that can help them not only reach minority students but also capitalize on cultural diversity in the classroom. At its core, cultural…
