For students of HBCUs, Apple may have laid the foundation for a promising future. This particular future doesn't involve the revealing of the latest innovation to come out of Silicon Valley, but rather, a landmark investment in diversity recruiting. On Tuesday, the titan of technology announced it's collaboration with The Thurgood Marshall College Fund to find and generate potential talent in the HBCU community, with the end goal of increasing the number of minorities, women and veterans in the technology industry. ...
Posted Thursday, March 19th 2015 at 2:39PM
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Recently, there have been a flurry of articles discussing the lack of diversity in tech. Many reference “pipeline” issues as justification for the low numbers. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, blacks and Hispanic ...
Posted Monday, March 2nd 2015 at 12:51PM
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — The lack of diversity in the tech industry isn't new, but the frank discussion about the nature and severity of the problem is.
Growing transparency around workforce demographics and high-profile harassment and discriminati ...
Posted Thursday, February 26th 2015 at 1:08PM
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OAKLAND, Calif. — This is a critical moment for the tech industry. As the conversation about tech's lack of diversity reaches mainstream consciousness, we have to make significant adjustments to move forward effectively.
History has taught us ...
Posted Saturday, February 14th 2015 at 10:17PM
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Often criticized in the past as well-intentioned but stagnant, corporate diversity departments at major organizations have never been so visible. With Google yesterday pledging a substantial sum to Code2040, a nonprofit fostering diversity in Technol ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 2:19PM
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Editor’s note: Joelle Emerson is the co-founder and CEO of Paradigm, a strategy firm that helps tech companies more effectively build diverse organizations.
At a recent forum on diversity in tech, Google’s Director of Global Di ...
Posted Monday, January 26th 2015 at 3:06PM
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Maxine Williams is very visible on the Facebook campus. And not just because she's one of the few black people working here.
With its ambitions encircling the globe, diversity has become a top priority at the giant social network. As global head of ...
Posted Wednesday, January 21st 2015 at 12:51PM
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Be yourself, be confident, build community: each of these steps are simple, but don’t confuse simple with easy.
During CES 2015 I was approached by a woman who worked for Facebook. It was fairly random: we’d just happened to be walking o ...
Posted Wednesday, January 21st 2015 at 12:10PM
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Intel president Renée James is building a pipeline of female and other groups of underrepresented engineers and computer scientists.
Amidst the barrage of new TVs and connected fitness trackers unveiled at last week’s Consumer Electroni ...
Posted Wednesday, January 14th 2015 at 1:46PM
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On the Washington, D.C., campus of Howard University, Silicon Valley is an ever-growing presence.
The engineering school’s new Yahoo Data Center was christened such after a donation from the Sunnyvale Internet firm. Google’s fingerprints are all o ...
Posted Monday, January 12th 2015 at 2:47PM
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All too often, diversity recruiting is associated with filling a quota according to regulatory guidelines. In reality, minority recruitment is about much more than that. The motivations aren’t about checking certain boxes off a list. Instead, they’re ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 3:56PM
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Anyone who’s paying attention has learned by now that there are innumerable advantages to be found in fostering a more positive environment toward diversity in the workplace. Diversity recruiting is the strategy used to create a well-rounded workforc ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 3:35PM
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There’s no question that the companies currently practicing diversity recruiting and hiring minorities are seeing tremendous benefits within their businesses. Multicultural recruiting practices lead to a more diverse workforce, which better fosters t ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 3:11PM
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Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition applaud Intel’s landmark diversity announcement to transform their workforce to achieve parity with the US population available by 2020 – Establishes $300 Million Diversity Investment Fund
Janu ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 1:44PM
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Steve Pemberton is Divisional Vice-President and Chief Diversity Officer for Walgreens, the
first such person to hold that responsibility in the company’s 110 year history.
Prior to assuming his role at Walgreens, Steve was Chief Diversity Offic ...
Posted Wednesday, January 7th 2015 at 5:42PM
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Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel Corporation today announced a broad, new Diversity in Technology initiative, which includes a $300 million investment to encourage more diversity at Intel and within the technology industry at large. ...
Posted Wednesday, January 7th 2015 at 3:19PM
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The Potomac School, a coed, K-12 independent school and Eastern Education Resource Collaborative (East Ed), an organization whose mission is to serve as a resource to schools to support the establishment of equitable, anti-bias, multicultural environ ...
Posted Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 6:58PM
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By Ronald Barba
Diversity in Silicon Valley and the tech industry as a whole have been and will continue to become a dominating and contentious issue. While many within the industry claim that new policies and programs are being implemented to prom ...
Posted Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 6:30PM
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Ken Petren, the new dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, combines the tenacity of a first-generation college graduate with a passion for innovation and diversity.
Date: 1/5/2015
By: Elissa Yancey
Phone: (513) 556-6415
Ken Petren ...
Posted Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 3:48PM
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By Batya Ungar-Sargon
James Knowles, the mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, wants to recruit more minorities to the city’s police force, where only three officers are black.1 With an initiative that includes a civilian review board and a scholarship progr ...
Posted Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 3:12PM
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Microsoft is the latest tech company to release its diversity numbers. Here’s how the tech giant compares.
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella kept his promise and released the tech giant’s federally-mandated diversity numbers to public scrutiny.
In ...
Posted Monday, January 5th 2015 at 6:26PM
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By Vicki Salemi
Upon reaching out to several companies for this post about campus recruiting, it’s clear the nation’s top companies are seeking diverse talent pools. Technically, we’re all diverse. Is anyone completely defined by a box? Executives' ...
Posted Monday, January 5th 2015 at 4:35PM
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The old adage says that "practice makes perfect." Never have those words been truer than in the field of diversity recruiting. A commitment to hiring a diverse workforce is the first step, but beginning the process of hiring minorities is only the st ...
Posted Sunday, January 4th 2015 at 2:42AM
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