#FundWorkforceEquity: Advancing Equity In The Workforce Development Ecosystem
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The tweets were fast and furious when funders and other workforce development stakeholders got together to chat.
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“I think philanthropy writ large has a diversity problem,” says Loh-Sze Leung, the co-director of Workforce Matters, a network of philanthropic organizations focused on funding workforce development programs.
Earlier this year, Workforce Matters asked its own members to do some self-reflection on their priorities, practices, and structure, including looking at whether there was racial biases albeit unintentional built into the existing funding ecosystem.
The result:
While the report is intended as a framework for funders in their words ”to set goals and hold ourselves accountable,” they also realize the conversation would be incomplete without input from others in the workforce development community.
SJSU’s Inaugural Public Voices Fellows
A group of 22 faculty members have made SJSU history as the inaugural cohort of the Public Voices Fellows program. Public Voices is an exciting new professional development opportunity launched by the Office of the Provost, the Center for Faculty Development, and the OpEd Project, which aims to amplify expert voices that have been underrepresented in efforts to address today’s most pressing issues. Fellows learned what makes an idea contagious in the public sphere, how to frame ideas in ways that will have public impact, and strategies for influencing discourse on a broad scale.
Brooklyn, NY, June 19, 2020.
Volume 62, Issue 1
SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK. As mnemonics go, one of the best, as equipment for living, not the recipe we need. Though this issue hits the bookstands the day after we spin the clocks ahead, if springing forward is what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the wrong place. Many things must change, given where we’ve been, yet none of that will happen unless we come to terms with what we’ve learned. And it isn’t the lies, the self-dealing, the rancor, or even, at some level, the damage done, the lives ended, the fortunes ruined, the friends and family lost. All of that still burns, how could it not, and nothing will be forgotten, because how could it be? Yet what is truly essential, what must at last be confronted, was delivered to us drop by drop during this interminable succession of isolated days, a truth that 2020 hindsight cannot not reveal. Though elsewhere there will be other versions, in the US that truth is simple: this co
Marion Campisi
The Fulcrum
The systems by which we elect the president and House of Representatives are predicated in most people s minds by the idea of one person, one vote. That simple idea is filtered though many political structures, however, and leaves different voters with different amounts of power. Proposals in Congress would give statehood, and full voices in the House and Senate, to both Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. This would result in a shift in the amount of power held by the existing 50 states, members of our federal legislature and individual citizens.
In order to understand how changes like this dilute or concentrate our individual political power, it is critical to understand the mathematical concepts underlying our political systems.
In order to understand how a shift in power can dilute or concentrate our individual political strength, it is critical to understand the mathematical concepts underlying our political systems, writes Marion Campisi of San Jose State University.