YMCAs Featured In Princeton Review Book,"Best Entry-Level Jobs: 2008 Edition" For the fourth consecutive year, America’s YMCAs rank among the top organizations and companies in the U.S. for college grads to launch their careers, according to The Princeton Review. "Best Entry-Level Jobs" identifies great workplaces for new grads based on hundreds of interviews with entry-level employees and employers at companies across the country. >>>

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Harris Beach Selects Diversity Scholarship Recipients for Third-Year Law School Studies Harris Beach PLLC has selected two second-year law school students to receive its diversity scholarship for third-year law school studies. As part of the scholarship program, they will also be employed in the Harris Beach law student summer program. Each student has been awarded $7,500 to be paid directly to their schools for the cost of tuition in the 2008-2009 school year.  >>>

The Business of Diversity By Kendal Tyre, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP, Washington, D.C. The numbers don’t lie. The U.S. is changing and the changes are coming more quickly than one might imagine. Recent census information and demographic trends show that the U.S.’ white majority is yielding to a rapidly expanding population of minorities; minorities that are having, and will continue to have, a profound impact on U.S. society and the U.S. economy. >>>

Forging Shared “Kinship Groups”: How to Defeat Bias in Your Workplace By Sondra Thiederman, Ph.D., Speaker and Author When I use the phrase “kinship group,” your mind probably jumps to blood relations or, at least, clusters of people who are bound together by some historical or cultural tie. If you thought the latter, you are not quite there, but you are on the right track. A kinship group, as I am using it here, is any population that shares a self- or externally ascribed characteristic that sets it apart from others.” >>>

January 12, 19, 2008 SpeakOut Successful GLBT Educator Training Offered January 21, 2008 St. John Fisher College 2008 Martin Luther King Celebration June 2007 - Feb 2008 “Across Borders Rochester” Showcases Latin American and Latino Art & Culture March 26, 27, and 28th, 2008 NCBI Three-Day Train-The-Trainer Seminar

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