Cognition
- Cognitive Accessibility User Research;
- Issue Papers for the The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force;
- Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis
Campus Free Speech
http://www.aplu.org/news-and-media/News/aplu-expresses-deep-concern-with…
Best Practices for Preparing for a Federal Civil Rights Review (State Perspective, July 2018)
PDF icon Best Practices for Preparing for a Federal Civil Rights Review
Shelley King-Curry, Tony Franklin & Lucy Diekman
Best Practices for Preparing for a Federal Civil Rights Review
Periodically, the United States Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA/NIFA) conducts a review of state Extension research, program and employment operation to ensure that federal civil rights laws and regulations are being followed. This involves a comprehensive review of the organization, including examining policies, procedures and practices.
Civil Rights and Legal Issues
The Civil Rights and Legal Issues page offers resources to assist Extension and other higher education professionals comply with federal and state nondiscrimination, affirmation action and equal opportunity laws. Civil Rights and Legal Issues provides a forum for discussions about the social justice issues faced in the higher education communities across the county.
Featured Items
If you are looking for information on creating a Language Access Plan for your institution or organization, please see below.
NIFA Limited English Proficiency Guidance: NIFA_LEP_Guidance_Implementing_Strategy_for_Federally_Assisted_Programs.pdf
You may also view the Language Access Plan that UW has created as a model. Note that this is a draft: LanguageAccessPlan2017_10-20.pdf
Discriminatory Job Postings? What’s the Deal? HigherEd Jobs. February 3, 2017
Have you ever noticed job postings that seem to discriminate against a particular group that you thought were protected under anti-discrimination laws?
Civil rights for Latinos and Non-Black groups.pdf
This Essay discusses a number of obstacles that lie in the way of protecting Latinos and other nonblack minority groups under the current framework of statutory and constitutional civil rights, including the Thirteenth Amendment. After discussing drawbacks associated with a system of civil rights protection still inflected with the rhetoric and norms of the 1 960s civil rights movement, the Essay closes by arguing that an increasingly multiracial society such as this one needs to develop a broader, more inclusive framework and – with Latinos in mind – sketches one.
Over the next few months, we will be posting excerpts from an essay by Professor John D. Skretny called “Have We Moved Beyond the Civil Rights Revolution?” from the Yale Law Journal.
Abstract: Bruce Ackerman’s account of the Civil Rights Revolution stresses the importance of popular sovereignty and the separation of powers as the basis of constitutional significance. In this view, key spokespersons, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson, served to provide leadership in the effort to eliminate “institutionalized humiliation” based on racial discrimination. But how well does this account explain the current state of employment civil rights in the U.S.? This essay explores the rise of “racial realism” in American employment relations, where employers see race as a real and significant part of worker identity. Employers see racial difference as something useful that can affect the effectiveness of their organizations. This has two variants: racial abilities, referring to perceptions that workers differ in ability based on their race, and racial signaling, where employers perceive that worker race can
signal different things to customers or members of the public. I explore the use and advocacy of racial realism in a variety of spheres of private and public employment, including at high- and low-skilled levels, and argue that racial realism is a significant departure from Ackerman’s vision because—despite its prominence—it lacks national spokespersons, lacks statutory basis and has very little court authorization, can harm nonwhites, and has never been debated in a public, deliberative forum.
Part 3 of the essay can be found here: Civil Rights Essay Part 3.pdf
Part 2 of the essay can be found here: Civil Rights Essay Part 2.pdf
Part 1 of the essay can be found here: Civil Rights Essay Part 1.pdf
There has been some coverage about workplace bullying on our site under the Workforce Diversity section. For more on that, see here: http://tinyurl.com/mmj6oyk
However, although there is much information on recognizing workforce bullying, there is not as much information on the legal ramifications. For more on that, read this article the-legal-ramifications-of-workplace.pdf by the “Long
Island Business News.”
Exploring….
Equal Employment Opportunity
University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
http://www.caes.uga.edu/unit/hr/employment/CAESEqualOpportunityUGA.htm
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Civil Rights Policy Statement
http://www.ascr.usda.gov/about_cr_policy.html
Social Justice
Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Civil Rights Outreach
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/admin/crights/
Extension Tools and Techniques to Establish Civil Rights Contact Goals
On The Issues: Background on Civil Rights
Every Political Leader on Every Issue
http://www.ontheissues.org/Background_Civil_Rights.htm
Know Your Rights: When Encountering Law Enforcement
American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english.pdf
Civil Rights and Legal Issues Section Editor:
Antonio Franklin
asfrankl@illinois.edu
University of Illinois
Link to Other Aritcles
- Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
- Affirmative-Action Plans: Recommended Procedures for Increasing the Number of Minority Persons and Women and University Faculty https://www.aaup.org/report/affirmative-action-plans-recommended-procedu…
- Due Process in Sexual-Harassment Complaints https://www.aaup.org/report/due-process-sexual-harassment-complaints
- The History, Uses and Abuses of Title IX https://www.aaup.org/report/history-uses-and-abuses-title-ix
- Photo by joegratz / CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Tony Franklin
Associate Director
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS EXTENSION
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
111 Mumford Hall
1301 W. Gregory Dr | Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-300-9120
asfrankl@illinois.edu | extension.illinois.edu
