Page 19 - Diversity Task Force News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

enCourage Kids Foundation Honoring Healthcare Heroes News provided by Share this article NEW YORK, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Exactly one year after the cancellation of the 35 th Anniversary Gala Celebration of the enCourage Kids Foundation (EKF) and one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, EKF is celebrating its hospital partners and dedicated doctors, nurses, child life specialists, social workers and other healthcare professionals through the foundation's online fundraising effort with the goal of raising $1 million. enCourage Kids Foundation...

Equality for Women Means Progress for All Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. (Photo: Dryad Global) A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions—all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let's all choose to challenge. In this guest blog, Dryad's Belle Davenport, shares how her preconceptions about the maritime industry have changed ...

Vice Provost Gates aims to transform campus culture Diversity and inclusion in higher education are complex issues, and their successful advancement is often measured in small steps rather than giant leaps. The task of addressing these crucial issues at Purdue University rests with John Gates, who joined Purdue in early 2019 as the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion. He also serves as a clinical professor in the Krannert School of Management. Prior to his appointment at Purdue, Gates served as the inaugural associate dean in the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Appli...

Meet the spring 2021 columnist class! Meet the spring 2021 columnist class! Brenda Huang / Senior Staff Illustrator Courtesy of Liam McGrane: A proud Brit, and now for three years a proud New Yorker, he spends his time between classes cartooning, reading biographies, and putting the finishing touches on his first full-length play “Premature Immaculation”. Liam studies computer science. He also serves as vice president of campus life on the General Studies Student Council. Liam hopes that you will enjoy his cartoon windows into the world, and if that happens to be the case, you can fin...

California Commissioner Names Morales Diversity Task Force Leader February 16, 2021 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has named Mark Morales to lead the California Department of Insurance’s Diversity Task Force, the first LGBTQ+ person named to the post. Morales replaces Sal Peinado, Jr. He will lead the first quarterly meeting of the task force on March 11. The CDI’s Insurance Diversity Initiative focuses on accelerating progress and equity within the insurance industry by encouraging greater diverse representation among the boards of insu...