Twyla J. Cummings has a big job ahead of her. As associate provost and dean of graduate education at Rochester Institute of Technology, she’s tasked with changing the mindset of colleges at RIT so they can produce a lot more ...

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If there’s any doubt that Rochester Institute of Technology is still career-oriented, that doubt would evaporate quickly at one of the university’s job fairs. The second of two career fairs for all majors this year was held last week, drawing ...

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County Legislator Vincent R. Felder, a graduate of the College at Brockport, has asked the chancellor of the SUNY system to investigate his alma mater because of recent conflicts over diversity.  In a Feb. 18 letter to SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, ...

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Local healthcare education programs make inroads on diversity. When it comes to diversity in higher education programs for healthcare, two local institutions have made the grade nationally. Insight into Diversity magazine gives awards each year to the higher education institutions across ...

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Mercedes Ramírez Fernández will join the staff July 1, coming from Virginia Tech, where she has been associate vice provost for strategic affairs and diversity.

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In an attempt to better reflect the diversity of students who attend Finger Lakes Community College, the Ontario County college has scheduled a recruitment day to attract new hires. FLCC Diversity Recruitment Day is scheduled from 1 to 3 p.m. ...

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Graduate schools’ reliance on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) in physics as a gateway exam might be helping to shut women and minorities out of doctoral programs, according to a statistical analysis led by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology. ...

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He was considered the best basketball player of all time. And after six seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks and 14 with the Los Angeles Lakers during its 1980s dynasty era, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar went on to act, advocate, write, teach, ...

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Monroe Community College will host two national experts on diversity in education at a conference Thursday on the Brighton Campus. Keynote speakers are Sarita E. Brown, president of Excelencia in Education, a national not-for-profit organization in Washington, DC, focusing on Latino ...

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The Workforce Diversity Network in October will present the nationally acclaimed “Defamation Experience” interactive workshop. The “Defamation Experience” is a courtroom drama in which the audience plays the jury. The premise of the workshop is a civil suit: A South ...

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Wegmans is in the top 10 of a brand new national list celebrating best companies for diversity. Forbes and Statista created the new America’s Best Employers for Diversity award, which involved interviewing some 30,000 employees across the country about their ...

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Over the past three decades, there has been a lot of discussion about the value of diversity in the workplace. In recent years, there have been studies quantifying the tangible, bottom-line benefits of having a diverse team. A 2015 McKinsey ...

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Three Rochester Institute of Technology staff members are among the first recipients of the New York State Education and Research Network’s Diversity Awards. Nicole Mirando, Caitlin Nairn and Michelle Guerrieri-Poysa work in RIT’s information and technology services organization. The awards ...

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Rochester has the second-highest gap in homeownership rates across races in the country, a new report shows. When measuring homeownership rates in the 50 largest metro areas nationwide, Apartment List found that in Rochester 70.1 percent of white households own ...

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