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Villiers Park and Roku are teaming up to inspire the next generation of leaders in STEM, tech and entertainment! Through our partnership, we’re opening doors for young people from under-represented backgrounds in the East of England💜 Last week, 15 students from The Hewett Academy in Norwich got a behind-the-scenes look at Roku’s Cambridge office! This immersive insight day offered students firsthand insights into careers in some of the world’s most innovative industries 📺🧑💻 Read more 🔗📰 https://lnkd.in/dtNFxGrT

BNEXT Partner Spotlight: York University and TECHNATION ✨ We’re excited to highlight Tammy Kim-Newman, Associate Director of Employer and Alumni Engagement at York University, who has seen firsthand how TECHNATION ’s Black Excellence and Infuse programs are making a difference for Black students in the tech industry. Tammy shares, “BNEXT brings together key stakeholders to help Black tech talent thrive. With free courses, labor market insights, and community events, BNEXT empowers students to shape their careers and connect with industry. TECHNATION's BNEXT and Infuse programs reduce financial barriers, linking top talent with employers to drive innovation.” By supporting initiatives like these, our members gain access to a diverse and skilled talent pool, positioning them at the forefront of innovation while contributing to a more inclusive digital economy. Being part of TECHNATION means taking part in and benefiting from these transformative opportunities. Join us in supporting initiatives that drive inclusion and growth in the digital space! • More on BNEXT: https://bit.ly/47Uah8H • Become a member today: https://bit.ly/48kpuA8 #InclusiveTech #DiversityInTech #TechInnovation #DigitalEconomy #TransformativeOpportunities #FutureOfTech #TechIndustryLeadership

Whole Education have a fantasically proactive, systemic approach to improving culture, strategy and practice in relation to SEND across a whole LA. Heads of SEND, ADCS, DCS...do ask if wanting to find out more about the benefits and how it worked in an LA rather than just single school or MAT.

🤝 As part of our series on strategies for connecting students to career pathways, TLA is excited to highlight Mendon-Upton Regional School District as they partner with local organizations in the community so students have real-world, career-related learning experiences. 💡 From creating museum exhibit designs to career interviews with professionals, students are gaining hands-on insights into how their classroom skills connect to future occupations. Through tools like Invest in What’s Next, they’re also exploring the financial impacts of different career paths. Learn how their community partnerships are preparing students for the future with TLA's full strategy card: https://loom.ly/yWlTV8w #CareerReady #ProjectBasedLearning

Thank God for Victor Davis Hanson & his willingness to speak truth even when it comes at personal cost. I enjoy hearing him speak with wisdom, knowledge, in his hard-hitting "between-the-eyes" style to provoke us to serious thought. I hope you do to! According to the brief interview below, the "woke policies" of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion are not what they appear, or seem to be on the surface. Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion is a big, fat Lie! It is "false truth" that baits companies to give preferred status to people based on race, gender, skin color & culture, instead of one's true ability to succeed. We all knew this would "fail" sooner-or- later, & fortunately, it appears "sooner" has arrived and the wrecked-ship is beginning to "turn to port" on The Left. D.E.I. has not only failed American corporations, but also manu citizens, who go into $10,000's worth of debt each year for college tuition; America's universities lose $100,000,000's in endowments; and Big Tech Companies lose market share & competitiveness when they let DEI hires go. In 2023, 191,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off. To-date, 77,762 workers at U.S.-based tech companies have lost their jobs in 2023-24 alone. Last year, in 2023, Amazon cut 27,000 jobs; Meta 21,000; Inte, 15,000; Google, 12,000; Microsoft 11,000; BTW, this trend isn't just limited to the tech corridor in California, either, as Dell, an Austin, Texas-area hardware heavyweight, is reorganizing its workforce. (according to the Austin American - Statesman newspaper) will reduce its workforce by 10,000 in 2024. I encourage you to pray for our public universities, and especially smaller state colleges. As you consider the dark clouds on the horizon, of a down jobs market, please remember to pray for the Federal, State, & Local Government; and our University Leaders. The United States still has plenty of excellent public universities, corporations, and leaders, who recognize people, based on their God -given gifts, talents,& abilities, rather than Class, Privilege, or Wealth. The Founders of the United States created a Republic as a truly "meritocratic country", where everyone may have a fair chance at the "Abundant Life" which Jesus promises to us (see John 10:10). Thank God there are enough states, who "live & rule by Meritocracy" (i.e. ruling by & holding power over people by selected on the basis of ability). The return, and progress, of Meritocracy may be slow, but we know ultimately the fit survive & thrive. I want to give a "Shout-Out" & Congratulation 👏 to my alma mater, Texas A&M University, & my father's GA Tech (both mentioned by VDH below). Both are recognized, at least in Silicon Valley, for turning out higher qualified job candidates than even Stanford University, in the heart of The Valley of California. GO TEXAS AGGIES 👍 & Yellow Jackets Michael Blades Class of '85 Chemical Engineering https://lnkd.in/e2hxuRvK

Alumni, have you started a new job recently? Won an award? Been selected for a board or council? If so, we want to know about it! Share your accomplishments on LinkedIn and tag the Tennessee Tech Alumni Association. Or, email your good news to alumni@tntech.edu. We'll share your achievements here and in the Class Notes section of The Alumnus e-newsletter!

Perhaps I'm just ignorant, but what and where and when is Diversity Equality and Inclusion relevant? Let's start with admittance and grades for QC courses. In my day those who scored the required SAT scores and had the required average in Highschool were accepted into QC. There was no discrimination. Just numbers. Everyone else could go to QCC and matriculate into QC for their Junior year. Diversity irrelevant. Equality, everyone got an equal opportunity, Inclusion standards were color blind and ethnic neutral. Now lets look at Main St. Flushing 1970 compared to today. Back then Diversity in all races and religions. Equality was go into a store with money and you got what you wanted. Inclusion All were welcome. Today's Main St. Flushing. 100% Asian language. 100% Asian business owned. What happened to Diversity? What's concerning is when the people in charge program AI. The one source of programming will end the 1st amendment. Then obviously old uninformed people like me will just have to accept the infallible explanations. Oh well. I guess the truth checkers will make it all right.

HBCU Homecoming season is officially here 🎉🏈! As a proud Morehouse College grad, I know firsthand that while we’re all ready for the fun, it’s also the perfect time to elevate your career. Networks STILL matter! I had a great time chatting with Haniyah P.hilogene at theGrio about how you can turn those homecoming connections made on the yard into lasting career opportunities. 💼🎓Want to learn more? Watch my video below and check out the full article in The Grio - https://lnkd.in/eMcsUBWU

"WE WILL GET THERE" BY MATT-Q https://lnkd.in/gxXjEx6A We sang this song so many times in school that I, for one, never even stopped to think what "THERE" is. When Singapore first became independent, "THERE" was just survival as the narrative we spun to excel as the only form of validation we needed to maintain the coherence and longevity of the state. When we transited from Third World to First World, "THERE" seemed to shift to other forms of excellence that was more in terms of putting our name out there and promoting the association of our brand name with service excellence, educated rigour and being on par with the other developed countries in terms of sophistication of infrastructure and connectivity. But at some time, while we were busy fighting so hard to survive, moving from one thing to another, we never realised that "THERE" has become so much more difficult to actualise. To some, it just means whatever we want to do, just accept us and that, to them,, is the meaning of inclusivity. To others, it means just having 'arrived' in society where we can get the best life possible- best school, best tuition, best connections, best career, best reputation. The downside of it is that if we spent our whole lives striving for that coveted "THERE" and we do not seem to attain it as well as our peers, we think then that we have essentially little value. The other extreme is that if we think we are "THERE", that causes presumptuousness and maybe, contempt for those whom we feel do not fit our standards of competence. While we provide many paths to success, and that actually widens the net for those of us who found it challenging to conform to one particular mold in previously, I suspect that, for many of our younger ones are reaching a stage where they are struggling to find their own "THERE". We have seen cases of those who studied hard in the past because parents urged them and told them that was the only way to gain significance are finding that once that external pressure is removed, there is no impetus to work so hard for something that they do not see as that essential and so, some, once they get their freedom, let loose completely because there was a MISALIGNMENT of "THERE". Unless we really seriously and honestly reflect as a nation on WHAT is "THERE", WHY we want to get "THERE", and how "THERE" is essential to our identities and purpose for living, then, eventually, just running non stop full steam ahead can lead to more derailment and eventual loss where we may have even forgotten why we do anything anymore. Perhaps the most important question we can ask ourselves individually and collectively as a nation as we pass the torch to successive generations is- WHAT EXACTLY is our "THERE" and WHY SO; because that will determine the course, quality and longevity of our future more than we think. #wewillgetthere #stefaniesun #matthewqueksingapore #nationaldaysingapore #there #why #what #purpose #think #evaluate #trueworth #success

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