(1998). Record-Keeping and Reporting Requirements for Independent and Public Colleges and Universities. This publication summarizes federal laws governing record-keeping, reporting, and retention of records typically in the possession of private and public colleges. It reviews relevant requirements of statutory and regulatory laws in regard to student records (transcripts, medical records, admission files, and disciplinary records); employee records (personnel files, affirmative action information, and payroll records); reporting and record-keeping requirements for nonprofit institutions; student financial aid records; records for grants and sponsored research; law enforcement records (campus security and hazing reports); licensure and accreditation records; and miscellaneous records (including voting lists, registration of out-of-state motor vehicles, and records required by the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act of 1988). The publication also discusses privacy and nondisclosure issues in relation to particular types of records, along with specific time periods for record…
(1998). Diversity Blueprint: A Planning Manual for Colleges and Universities. This guide uses the planning process at the University of Maryland, College Park, as an example of comprehensive campus-wide planning for institutional and programmatic diversity goals. Five planning principles are identified: (1) accountability, (2) inclusiveness, (3) shared responsibility, (4) evaluation, and (5) institutionalization. Chapters are organized thematically, highlighting diversity programs and institutional priorities that have been created at the University of Maryland based on the five planning principles as applied to the following five institutional planning priorities: (1) leadership and systemic change; (2) recruitment, retention, and affirmative action; (3) curriculum transformation; (4) campus-community connections; and (5) faculty, staff, and student involvement. The structure of the manual mirrors that of DiversityWeb, a Web site that offers good practices and a planning format for institutions working together on diversity efforts. Inserts and sidebars… [PDF]
(1988). Sexual Harassment in Education. Teaching and Learning at Indiana University, Feb. Three situations of sexual harassment, typical of the complaints received by various departments and offices on all Indiana University campuses, are presented. According to the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs, "academic sexual harassment is the use of authority to emphasize the sexuality or sexual identity of a student in a manner which prevents or impairs that student's full enjoyment of educational benefits, climate, or opportunities." Gender harassment, as defined by the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women, "consists of discriminatory behavior directed against individuals who belong to a gender group that the aggressor considers inferior." Most universities offer a variety of channels for effective informal resolution of harassment complaints. Several of these are discussed and addresses for the Affirmative Action offices on Indiana University campuses are provided. The Indiana University "Policy and…
(1993). To Reclaim a Legacy of Diversity: Analyzing the "Political Correctness" Debates in Higher Education. "Political correctness" has recently been appropriated by organizations and individual advocates seeking to attack and focus negative media attention on reforms in higher education. This report documents both the facts and media distortions that have shaped almost a decade of campus debate on affirmative action, multicultural and feminist curriculum reform, and programs to diversify college campuses. The report also highlights the conditions that have given rise to an unrivaled backlash in academia. Topics addressed include media coverage of political correctness, conservative activism in higher education, liberal responses to the backlash, funding patterns, and campus violence/campus climate issues. Appendices include a chronological list of media coverage that addressed political correctness issues between 1989 and 1993, a list of activist networks of student newspapers on campuses, statistics concerning people of color and women in higher education, the addresses and… [PDF]
(1988). Prejudice and the Reduction of Prejudice in Australian Society. White Australian history has displayed rampant racism, sexism, and cultural chauvinism. Since 1947 Australia has undergone a demographic revolution in both size and ethnic composition. The four million migrants, 56 percent of whom are of non-British origin, and their 2 million children, account for nearly 60 percent of Australia's post-war population growth. Although the federal and state governments have been enacting equal opportunity and affirmative action legislation, and there have been improvements in community attitudes toward migrants, racism and cultural chauvinism persist in many forms and in many aspects of Australian society. Aboriginal Australians are the minority group most subject to prejudice and discrimination. The following aspects of the nature and construction of prejudice are discussed: (1) racialism; (2) cultural superiority; and (3) political and economic dimensions. Australian society must combat prejudice by generating a range of coherent policies to work…
(1987). Annual Report on Higher Education in New Jersey, 1986-87. The New Jersey annual report on higher education outlines achievements and problems within the system. Five sections focus on the following topics: (1) introduction; (2) system status report (size of the system, budget and finance, funding policies and formulas, faculty, state college autonomy, and overall academic health); (3) the foundations of excellence (the Governor's challenges, departmental grant programs, the 1984 Jobs, Science, and Technology Bond Act, and improving undergraduate education); (4) equity/access (transfer advisory board, minority enrollment initiatives, basic skills, affirmative action, and student assistance); and (5) special issues (assessment, Student Unit Record Enrollment system, health professions education policy, initiatives, and sector study commissions). Two appendices provide tables on finance, academics, admissions/enrollments, and faculty in New Jersey and on membership of the Advisory Board and groups. A map shows the locations of New Jersey… [PDF]
(1984). Faculty Collective Bargaining in the California State University. A Staff Report on the 1983-1986 Agreement between the Board of Trustees and the California Faculty Association for Unit 3–Faculty. Commission Report 84-3. Features of a 1983-1986 faculty collective bargaining contract at the California State University (CSU) are described. The Congress of Faculty Associations won representation rights for the faculty bargaining unit at CSU in a 1983 election. Attention is directed to: grievance procedures; appointment, probation, tenure, and promotions; layoff; salary schedule; exceptional merit service awards; market condition salary supplements; and library faculty unit salary schedule. Included in the bargaining unit are those classifications of librarians that are considered as faculty. The agreement streamlines all grievance and disciplinary action procedures to provide shorter time periods at each step. A significant change from past procedures is that the grievance proceedings now provide for full "de novo" hearings before the arbitrator and eliminate a faculty hearing prior to arbitration. All layoffs of nontenured faculty require consideration of seniority, affirmative action,… [PDF]
(1980). Skill-Based Management Training: The Teaching Family Model Revisisted. This paper provides a description of the Program Manager Workshop, a skill-based management training workshop for managers of group homes. The workshop is an extension of the Teaching-Family Model of Community Based Care, a model used in residential treatment homes for persons experiencing problems such as delinquency, retardation, mental illness, and autism. Each section of the workshop follows the format of lecture, discussion, modeling, and behavioral rehearsal. The content of various workshop sections is outlined: (1) Planning for Organizational Change; (2) Dealing with Bureaucratic Behavior; (3) Policies and Procedural Checklisting; (4) Shades of Differences; (5) Staff Meetings; (6) Equal Employment/Affirmative Action; (7) Responsive Management; (8) Problem Analysis and Decision Making; and (9) The Program Manager as a Teacher. The workshop evaluation is presented along three dimensions: participant satisfaction, skill performance, and consumer satisfaction. Evaluation data are…
(1978). Bakke, DeFunis, and Minority Admissions. The Quest for Equal Opportunity. The public policy and legal issues surrounding preferential admissions of minorities in higher education and the politics and human drama of the controversy are reviewed and analyzed in this book. Focus is on the court cases of Marco DeFunis against the University of Washington law school and Allan Bakke against the University of California Medical School at Davis. The problem considered is how to promote equal opportunity for disadvantaged minorities through affirmative action without engaging in reverse discrimination. Included in the book are considerations of divergent notions of equal opportunity, increasing numbers of applicants and rising standards of admission, racial preference, special admissions or discretionary selection, goals and quotas, legal strategies, comparative academic qualifications, an increasing supply of qualified minority applicants, equal protection of the laws and racial classifications, and political implications. The Bakke and DeFunis cases are detailed…
(1977). The White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals. Delegate Workbook. Workshop VIII: Special Concerns (2). Civil Rights/Special Populations/Veterans/Aging. The last of eight delegate workbooks prepared for the May, 1977 White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals contains ballots for the workshop on civil rights, special populations, veterans and aging. The ballots are designed to enable delegates to assign priorities to various issues and proposals in a way that reflects conclusions of state and territorial conferences. The following issues are among those presented: enforcement of antidiscrimination and affirmative action laws; educating handicapped persons about their rights; the import of the right to treatment in the least restrictive environment; ensuring delivery of services and goods to the disabled; changing negative attitudes toward minorities; retaining disabled uniformed military personnel in military service; and housing legislation responsive to the needs of aged handicapped persons. For each such topic, multiple proposals, to which delegates must assign priorities, are listed. For example, the ways suggested to…
(1979). Fact Sheets from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children: 1979 Series. A series of 20 fact sheets is provided giving basic information on specific subjects of interest to those working with handicapped and gifted children. The fact sheets, developed by the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children during fiscal year 1979, are designed in question/answer format and have resource references. Following are the topics of the fact sheets: career education, how a parent group can effect legislation for the gifted and talented, the special education job market, federal resources for special education, assessment of minority students, cultural values and motivation, educational rights of American Indian and Alaska native handicapped children, special problems of handicapped minority students, multicultural education and the exceptional child, self identity and the culturally diverse child, affirmative action for the handicapped, reaching handicapped children in their early years, the argument for early…
(1975). Research and Support Strategies For Women's Higher Education. Inadequate support is presently offered for the study of certain important questions which have serious implications for educational policies affecting women. Priority should be given to the support of those areas of research and program development and evaluation that have the most critical implications for both the higher education of women and women's status in institutions of higher education. Support should include: (1) research on coeducational and sex education experiences, outcomes of affirmative action, career patterns of women, living arrangements, intellectual development, women's psychological autonomy, social policies regarding families; (2) development and evaluation of women's studies, women's centers, counseling services, efforts to encourage women to enter other than traditional majors and/or career fields, "coping training," sex distributions, the means to raise the level of women's qualitative skills, classroom sex ratios; recruitment of women to the… [PDF]
(1974). Education Programs and Activities Receiving or Benefiting from Federal Financial Assistance: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex. Part 2. Federal Register, v39 n120 p22228-40 Jun 20. Title IX, of the Education Amendments of 1972, provides that "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance," with certain exceptions. This report contains proposed rules to implement Title IX. The report includes definitions and provisions concerning remedial affirmative actions, required assurances, dissemination of information policies, and other general matters related to sex discrimination. It describes the educational institutions and other entities, whether public or private, which are covered in whole or in part by the proposed regulations and sets forth the general and particular prohibitions with respect to nondiscrimination based on sex in admissions policies and admission preferences. Also set forth are rules with respect to prohibited discrimination in educational programs… [PDF]
(1973). Summer Workshop for New Community Junior College Presidents and Wives. The report on the 1973 Summer Workshop for New Community Junior College Presidents and Wives contains the presentations, or summaries of them, made by members of the workshop staff and summaries of the major discussions. These papers and discussions are: (1) Community College Administration: Part I, Great Challenges Ahead, and Part II, Design and Implementation of a New Philosophy of Community College Education; (2) President-Board Relationships: Building a Bridge of Communication; (3) The Human Side of Management: Applications to Community College Administration; (4) State, Regional, and National Systems of Education: Coordination or Control?; (5) Panel Discussion on Instruction: Why Be Concerned?; (6) Human Development: Self-Actualization by Group Process; (7) Student Personnel Services; (8) Evaluation of Professional Performance; (9) Recommended Evaluation Procedures for MCCCD; (10) Office of Affirmative Action at Grossmont College; (11) Organization and Administration of… [PDF]
(1999). An International Visitor's Guide to Higher Education in the United States. This booklet presents information to international visitors on higher education in the United States. Section 1, \Introduction to U.S. Higher Education, Its Governance, Administration, and Accreditation,\ discusses: federal government and state roles; types of institutions of higher education; administrative structure; and accreditation, quality, and standards. Section 2, \Admissions, Faculty, Students, and Instruction,\ focuses on: academic entrance exams, admission of foreign students, transfer students, and graduate admissions; faculty qualifications, tenure, and evaluation; foreign students attending U.S. colleges and universities; and the academic year, credit system, types of courses and methods of instruction, student evaluation, and diplomas and degrees. Section 3,\Financing Higher Education,\ discusses: institutional income and expenditures; costs of higher education to students and their families; and financing foreign students. Section 4, \Major Issues in U.S. Higher…