The U.S. Naval Academy recently saw a 57 percent increase among Black, Latino and other traditionally underrepresented applicants. DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti sat down with Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Admiral Jeffrey L. Fowler to find out how this institution is recruiting, retaining and developing talent from all cultures.
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The AT&T Foundation recently pledged $150,000 to the Rutgers Future Scholars Program, an initiative aimed at building a constant talent pipeline of Blacks, Latinos and other youths from low-income communities for corporations nationwide. Find out how their contribution makes a difference.
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American Express's Chief Diversity Officer Kerrie Peraino shares her firsthand experience of supporting religion in the workplace and how the corporation's employee-resource groups focus on education, awareness and inclusion.
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In her role as Boehringer Ingelheim's executive director and chief diversity officer, Nancy Di Dia has effected measurable change. From revamping its diversity-training program to finding innovative ways to engage employee-resource groups, she has helped the corporation earn a perfect Human Rights Campaign CEI score three years in a row.
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How can companies recruit and retain top talent found in employees with disabilities? In our recent roundtable in Washington, D.C., DiversityInc and a panel of corporate and governmental experts searched for answers to how this underrepresented group can find more success in the work force. Find out what substantive solutions our conversation yielded.
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Jim Norman started off as a security guard at Kraft Foods, but these days he is doing much bigger things as the company's vice president of diversity. Most notably, he recently implemented a system for accountability that ensures diversity performance and clearly links it to executive incentive compensation.
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Will Judge Sonia Sotomayor serve as a positive role model and have an impact on corporate America as well? Will companies make a new commitment to recruiting Latinos to reflect their growing national influence? Alma Morales Riojas, CEO of MANA, shares her thoughts on Latinos' integral role in the work force.
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It's been symbolically buried, white people using it have been denounced, and yet rappers use it excessively. Who decides who can use this politically charged word and who can't?
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There's a new Fortune 500 CEO at a company that has what may be the nation's greatest diversity comeback story: The Coca-Cola Co. Muhtar Kent will become CEO, effective July 1. Many anticipated this appointment after Kent became president and chief operating officer, overseeing all business operations, late last year.
