(2003). Racial Diversity Reconsidered. Public Interest, n151 p25-38 Spr. Surveyed college faculty, administrators, and students about their feelings on campus diversity programs and various aspects of the general educational experience and environment. Among faculty and administrators, diversity brought perceptions of better race relations, decreased educational quality, and decreased academic preparation. As black enrollment increased, student satisfaction with the university, the quality of their education, and peer work ethic dropped, and the likelihood of experiencing discrimination rose. (SM)…
(1990). Changing Conditions: Minority Education at Oakes College. Thought and Action, v6 n1 p21-34 Spr. A discussion of the success of Oakes College (Santa Cruz, California) at attracting and retaining Black and Hispanic students looks at the early experimental nature of the college, what was learned in its early years, and the educational and policy strategies that have evolved through controversy and crisis. (MSE)…
(1989). Comparable Worth: Individual, Interpersonal, and Structural Considerations. Journal of Social Issues, v45 n4 p223-46. Integrates the major conclusions of the papers on comparable worth in this special issue, and identifies additional relevant issues. Covers the following major topics: (1) history and conceptual issues; (2) social psychological aspects to pay equity; (3) job evaluation issues and applications; and (4) policy implementation and implications. (JS)…
(1989). A Preliminary Probe into the Difficulties College Women Encounter in Job Placement. Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, v22 n2 p89-96 Sum. Investigates factors contributing to difficulties faced by China's female college graduates seeking a job. Suggests publicizing the idea of women's liberation while increasing the training of women, correcting the expectations of the traditional role, eliminating the idea of child rearing as a personal matter, and protecting women in the course of reform. (KO)…
(1988). A Soft Technology: Recruiting and Retaining Women and Minorities in High Tech Programs. Community, Technical, and Junior College Journal, v59 n2 p34-37 Oct-Nov. Describes a program at Washtenaw Community College, Michigan, to upgrade the basic skills of women and minority students and provide the academic support needed for success in high technology occupational training programs. Examines the following program components: academic progress, counseling, peer support, financial aid, and advocacy. (DMM)…
(1994). Effective Strategies for Enhancing Minority Faculty Recruitment. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, v18 n2 p147-63 Mar-Apr. Describes a nationwide study of the percentage of minority faculty employed full-time at community colleges and strategies used to recruit them. Suggests that successful strategies include placing minorities on the board of trustees, recruiting from industry, and hiring minority faculty as chief academic administrators and ethnic studies instructors. (Includes the survey instrument and 25 references.) (MAB)…
(1991). Monitoring Shifts in Campus Image and Recruitment Efforts in Small Colleges. New Directions for Institutional Research, (No. 70 Evaluating Student Recruitment and Retention Programs) v18 n2 p83-94 Sum. Without an institutional research office to look at recruitment and retention programs, DePauw University (Indiana) relies heavily on institutional trend data and comparative information to assess the effectiveness of three initiatives: recruitment of large numbers of minority students, strategic use of financial aid, and use of market segmentation. (MSE)…
(1991). Minority Student Recruitment: A Connecticut Model. New Directions for Community Colleges, n74 p39-46 Sum. Describes initiatives developed in Connecticut to increase minority participation in higher education, including the Minority Enrollment Incentive Program, Urban Marketing Initiative, Greater Hartford Community College's Hispanic Family Support and Pre-Nursing programs, Norwalk Community College's English as a Second Language program, high school partnerships, and the Minority Fellowship Program. (DMM)… [Direct]
(1991). Sources and Information: Minority Participation in Community College Education. New Directions for Community Colleges, n74 p117-124 Sum. Provides an annotated bibliography of ERIC documents and journal articles on community college efforts to enhance minority participation and success, focusing on access, recruitment, retention, transfer, leadership, and revitalization efforts. (DMM)… [Direct]
(1998). Balancing Act. Can Colleges Achieve Equal Access and Survive in a Competitive Market?. College Board Review, n186 p12-17 Fall. An economist discusses whether strategic use of student financial aid to achieve sound fiscal goals in higher education is at odds with the competing goal of equity. Overemphasis on efficiency will cause higher education to lose sight of its mission; while it should not shy away from rational consideration of expenses and revenues, it should remember social goals. (MSE)…
(2005). Black Dean: Race, Reconciliation, and the Emotions of Deanship. Harvard Educational Review, v75 n3 p306-326 Fall. In this article, Jonathan Jansen describes his experiences as a Black dean in the formerly all-White University of Pretoria in South Africa. The article shows how race, gender, history, and institutional culture constitute emotional terrain in which decanal leadership plays itself out in the volatile postapartheid era. In the context of South Africa's negotiated transition to majority rule, Black leadership in this still dominant White institution means balancing tensions of affirmation and inclusion, retention and restitution, caring and correction, accommodation and assertion, and racial reconciliation and social justice. In telling his story, Jansen takes on, among other concerns, the ethnocentric character of Western research on leadership, the paucity of critical literature on the deanship, and the general lack of studies on educational leadership in postconflict societies. (Contains 5 endnotes.)… [Direct]
(2004). Cross-Racial Interaction among Undergraduates: Some Consequences, Causes, and Patterns. Research in Higher Education, v45 n5 p529-553 Aug. This study utilized a national longitudinal data set of college students to examine the educational relevance of cross-racial interaction and how campuses can best structure such opportunities. The general pattern of findings suggests that cross-racial interaction has positive effects on students' intellectual, social, and civic development. The results show that institutions could enhance such experiences by enrolling larger proportions of students of color and by offering students more opportunities to live and work part-time on campus. While these findings apply uniformly to white students, the frequency of cross-racial interaction does not always follow an expected path of steady gains for students of color as the student body becomes increasingly more diverse. Implications of the findings are discussed…. [Direct]
(1976). Self-Evaluation Package. Designed to Meet Requirements of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for Compliance by Institutions of Higher Education with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Its Implementing Regulations. The Self-Evaluation Package is process-oriented. The material provides for an assessment of the current status of policies, procedures, forms, and publications, as well as documentation of the results of analyses, plans, and time-frames for corrective actions. The 16 individual packets contained in this Self-Evaluation Package can be distributed to specific officers or individuals responsible for programs or activities covered by the regulations. All packets are similar in their introductions, planning guides, and projection of corrective action section; but each contains different work sheets for analysis and documentation appropriate for that particular unit. Each packet also contains a copy of the sections of the Title IX regulations applying to that unit or program. The total Self- Evaluation Package offers institutions of higher learning a tool for completing the self-analysis and documentation required by law, and requires no initial training of staff to be implemented…. [PDF]
(1996). Minority Representation within Fields in Psychology: Implications for Career Counseling, Training, and APA Recruitment by Division. An examination of the representation of doctoral level, United States-based, racial/ethnic minority professionals (n=1,597) by division within the American Psychological Association (APA) was conducted. Membership status (i.e., member, fellow), specialty area, and sex also are noted in the compilation of findings. Results indicate that U.S.-based, doctoral level, minority professionals who have the potential to influence the future of each discipline within psychology appear to be quite limited, comprising only 2.6% of the total APA membership. Three ways by which the APA may begin addressing this under-representation are recommended: (1) all APA-approved training programs responsible for the instruction of undergraduate and graduate students should insure that students are exposed early in their educations to extensive information related to every possible APA division and psychology specialty; (2) an archival study should be conducted which analyzes the composition of those APA… [PDF]
(1996). The Contribution of Financial Aid to the Price of Four-Year Institution Attended by 1989/90 Freshmen. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper. By examining the effects of financial aid upon students' choice of what type of institution of higher education to attend, this study addressed the effectiveness of current student financial aid programs in achieving the goal of equal educational opportunity. The study evaluated a sample of 1,916 students in the first follow-up (1992) of the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey of 1989-90 entering freshmen, a subsample of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. Students' choice of institution to attend was measured by the institutional characteristic of price after controlling for the effects of other student and institutional characteristics. The study's conclusions were: (1) that financial aid enabled students to attend higher-priced institutions, although various types and amounts of aid had different effects upon the price of institution attended; (2) that, unlike the results of prior research, loans were positively related to the price of the institution attended; (3)… [PDF]