Diversity in Education

The many challenges facing school districts and higher-education institutions today include: No Child Left Behind, the upcoming labor shortage and talent pipeline, bullying in schools (especially for LGBT students), standardized tests creating disparities by race and gender, disproportionately high dropout rates, and educating the students of undocumented immigrants or others who don’t speak fluent English.

• Diversity & Inclusion Means Zero Tolerance for Bullying
  

  Diversity and inclusion can’t succeed in workplaces that allow bullying at any level. What can you do to prevent and stop bullying in your company and in schools, where it begins?Read More

• AT&T Announces Quarter-Billion-Dollar Expansion of Education Commitment
  

  'SOCIALLY INNOVATIVE' APPROACH TO INCREASE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES, BOOST WORKPLACE READINESSRead More

• Presente.org Seeks Signatures for Petition to Restore Mexican-American Studies in Tucson
  

  Tucson's school board has cancelled the district’s high-school Mexican American Studies program and forcibly banned a series of books dealing with race. This letter details how you can help.Read More

• How to Get 150 Top-Performing Black and Latino Candidates Now
  

  With a global war for talent heating up, Ernst & Young’s leaders are proactively developing future accounting professionals at both the student and educator level.Read More

• American Universities Hinder Diversity Among STEM Students
  

  A survey finds that traditional instructional methods—plus a lack of educational preparation and few role models—discourage women, Blacks, Latinos and American Indians from graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.Read More

• Rutgers Future Scholars Enhances Talent Pipelines With Corporate-Student Outreach
  

  An event with Ernst & Young served to inspire students from low-income families to become the next generation of accounting professionals.Read More

• Video of 2011 DiversityInc Special Awards: American Express
  

  Anré Williams, president, Global Merchant Services, American Express, accepts the award for Top Company for Employee-Resource Groups.Read More

• How to Create the Next Generation of Accounting Professionals
  

  Why did Ernst & Young get so involved with Rutgers Future Scholars? This firm is building its future.Read More

• How Philanthropy Benefits Your Company
  

  There's a real correlation between engaged employees, loyal customers and helping nonprofits.Read More

• Rutgers University Honors Steve Colson for Lifetime of Philanthropy
  

  Steve Colson is not the type of guy who can just write a big check to a charitable organization and walk away. He is the first to admit he does...Read More