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And I wrote just this morning about a Mexican American studies program in Tucson, Arizona—taught by Mexican American teachers—in which 100% of its enrolled students graduated from high school. This is against a dropout backdrop of 49% for Latino students. A startling 85% of students in the program went on to college, according to NPR.
The Obama administration, despite implementing several broad initiatives to improve school issues, has not worked vigorously to integrate America's schools
The National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers (NAMAD) and IHS Automotive just announced the nominees for their inaugural Diversity Volume Leadership Awards. Preceding the North American International Auto Show, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, the invitation-only, DVL Awards, looks to celebrate segment leaders and focuses solely on multicultural automotive buyers.
It may be slow moving, but diversity in Silicon Valley is on the rise, says the serial entrepreneur.
As we embark on a new decade, a number of factors have reshaped the business landscape. Globalization, technology, diverse cultures, and the most recent recession are all forcing leaders to review previous organizational practices and adjust their attitudes and abilities to be competitive in today’s marketplace. But it seems leaders are still not getting the message that diversity is essential to that success. The leadership practices needed to keep pace with new demands and challenges was the focus of a two-year, global, multilevel report called Developing the 21st Century Leader, conducted by AchieveGlobal, a consulting organization that assists domestic and international companies with training in leadership, sales, and customer service. After reviewing approximately 40 practices that range from behavioral to cognitive, AchieveGlobal researchers condensed those disciplines into six “zones†or categories of best practices and reveal how leaders rate them in terms of importance. Of the six zones, diversity ranked last. The report’s methodology consists of a literature review, focus groups, and an online survey completed by 971 business and government leaders and employees in the United States, Mexico, India, China, Singapore, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
