Category: Career Advice
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The 10 most innovative education companies post pandemic
Explore the full 2022 list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, 528 organizations whose efforts are reshaping their businesses, industries, and the broader culture. We’ve selected the firms making the biggest impact with their initiatives across 52 categories, including the most innovative media, design, and consumer goods companies. The COVID-19 pandemic blasted online education…
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Diversity officers aren’t always so diverse
Who are the professionals that are being hired for role of chief diversity officer? Weber Shandwick, in partnership with United Minds and KRC Research, has published Chief Diversity Officers Today: Paving the Way for Diversity & Inclusion Success, which focuses on analyzing the role. [FREE DOWNLOAD: The 2020 Press Release Benchmark Report] According to the study,…
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Northeastern and Northwestern Law Centers Seek Posthumous Pardon for Black Man Executed After 1908 Springfield Race Riot
In the early 20th century, Joe James, a Black man, was convicted and executed for the murder of a white man in Springfield, Illinois, after the 1908 Springfield Race Riot. Now, 115 years after his death, lawyers and law students from Northwestern and Northeastern Universities are seeking a posthumous pardon. on his behalf.Margaret A. Burnham…
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Deion Sanders Put 10 NFL Teams On Blast As No-Shows For HBCU Pro Day At Jackson State
Following the shocking documentation of his toe amputation earlier this month, NFL/MLB legend Deion Sanders is still going hard in the sports world as head football coach at Jackson State. One of his current priorities is the 2022 NFL Draft in April, especially after no HBCU players were selected in the 2021 NFL Draft. He’s…
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Professor Sues Hamilton College for Racial Discrimination
Dr. Joseph Mwantuali, professor of French at Hamilton CollegeDr. Joseph Mwantuali said that he didn’t know what to expect when he joined the French and Francophone studies department at Hamilton College in upstateNew York. It was a small unit, with fewer than five professors, and Mwantuali, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
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Where is the Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education Engagement with Investment Management Firms?
The question of how equitable the engagement of higher education institutions with private equity firms and other investment management groups is a difficult one to answer. The reason for this is that there is an incredible lack of transparency in identifying what money managers many higher education institutions are using to steward their endowments. The…
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Report: Test-Optional Policies Result in Increased Student Diversity
Test-optional admission policies have resulted in increased application numbers and student diversity at many business schools, according to a recent report by the MBA Roundtable and Wiley. Jeff Bieganek “Test-Optional Admission Policies and The Impact on Graduate Management Education,” surveyed and collected the input of 116 deans, directors, faculty, and staff at 107 graduate business schools…
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Simple Changes – Try these Resume Tips
4 Modifications That Will Make Your Resume a Breath of Fresh Air As a job candidate, it’s easy to see recruiting supervisors as big, bad challenges that you have to conquer. They’re the gatekeepers, after all. But, this type of thinking causes weaker employment applications. Consider it by doing this: Employing supervisors read a lot…
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How to be a change agent for diversity, equity and inclusion in your career
The year 2020 has been fraught with examples of blatant structural inequities and systemic racism. Individuals and organizations alike have been forced to contemplate and reflect on those injustices that have been so clearly illuminated. If there has ever been a time to call on your inner activist, the time is now. Amid an unprecedented…
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Ace that Job Interview
HOW TO ACE YOUR INTERVIEW You’ve heard the standard questions dozens of times but know that your answers haven’t always overwhelmed your interviewers. If everyone’s asking the same questions, how can job seekers provide answers that make them stand out from others? We gave our CareerBuilder experts a few standard interview questions and asked them…