inclusion – California Globe

A Practical Guide To Local Organizing: CFER Edition

September 25, 2023 11:46 amSeptember 25, 2023 11:47 am

The California For Equal Rights Foundation held their 2nd Annual Conference last month in San Diego, California. The focus of this years’ CFER Conference was “…on connecting education experts and leaders with local activists and concerned parents who are fighting...

Bakersfield College History Professor Sues CA Community Colleges over DEIA Teaching Mandates

August 10, 2023 11:04 amAugust 10, 2023 11:05 am

Diversity equity and inclusion can be a remarkably exclusionary philosophy that leaves no room for dissent from its often tyrannical dictates. As the California Globe reported last month, a woman is suing the corporate behemoth Compass USA, Inc. because they...

Othering, Belonging, and You: A Look at a Befuddling Berkeley Institute

July 10, 2023 3:32 pmJuly 10, 2023 3:35 pm

Note – this is yet another installment of the Globe’s semi-regular series entitled “Hidden in Plain Site” in which we look at what various influential California organizations are saying/claiming/promoting etc. on their websites. Today’s entry is The Othering and...

California Lawmakers Gut Good Bill, Replace with Horrible Bill

June 22, 2023 7:06 amJune 22, 2023 12:38 pm

Earlier this week, Assembly Bill 1352 by Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) on individualized county childcare subsidy plans was gutted. Berman’s bill had already gone through a few committees, and was voted on by the full Assembly without a single...

University of California Retreats from Unlawful Diversity Statement Mandates

June 23, 2022 2:14 pmJune 23, 2022 2:35 pm

In 2015 the University of California enacted a seemingly innocuous policy which said, “faculty achievement that promote equal opportunity and diversity should be given due recognition in the academic personnel process.” But this modest mandate for recognizing contributions to diversity...

UC Davis Leads the Nation in Diversity… in Race and Ethnicity, Not Politics and Intellectual Content

September 24, 2019 2:11 amSeptember 23, 2019 9:03 pm

As Fox Business reports, “The number one most diverse public university in the country is UC Davis, where 30,066 undergraduates are enrolled at a diversity index rate of 77.64.” The diversity index is “a continuum that ranges from 0 (no...

UC Davis Diversity Dodge

March 7, 2019 4:34 pmMarch 8, 2019 11:14 am

As the Davis Enterprise reports, the University of California at Davis has created a new position, “vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion,” in order to “engage more effectively with the recruitment and retention of the best and brightest students,...