Eyes on Enterprise: Racism in Corporate America - Importance of Diversity

Examining entrepreneurship, business development, wealth creation, money management, and risk taking, across all races and ethnicities.
June 11th, 2013
Written by Kerrissa Vaughn in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
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A group of students sit in a summer camp class, eyes intent on Chinese teacher, Anthony Chung. Parents sit several feet away, eyes intent on their children. Chung speaks a phrase in Chinese, and in unison the students perform a task. This sequence repeats until some execute and some don’t. Chung breaks his Chinese with laughter, “You are out!” Parents laugh too, realizing the game is “Simon Says...
May 31st, 2013
Written by John Flesher - Associated Press in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
Jeb Bush
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) - Boosting education standards and crafting a new immigration policy that recognizes the valuable role newcomers play in creating jobs is essential to long-term economic growth, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday. Speaking to Michigan business and government leaders on this Lake Huron resort island, Bush said the "right to rise" socially and economically is...
May 29th, 2013
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Sports’ is the ticket to a college education for many black students. But that relationship between the “sport culture” and academics often leads to lowered academic performance and a failure to complete a degree, according to research from Kansas State University. "Some scholars characterize the black student athletic experience as being very unique," said Albert Bimper Jr., assistant professor...
May 21st, 2013
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student loan application
At a time when overall black unemployment remains nearly two times that of whites and federal PLUS loans for education are becoming more and more difficult to get, the overriding question of the day: What's a black student to do to get a college degree, to have any hope of escaping a life of poverty? Getting a college degree will be out of reach for many blacks. For as long as they have existed...
May 16th, 2013
Written by Ronald Blum - AP Sports Writer in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) - While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida. Racial diversity among senior team administrators improved to 19.9 percent from 17 percent. "The most notable...

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