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Corcoran, William J. – Metropolitan Universities, 2007
Education is a primary mission of metropolitan universities. This article measures the value of education at the level of a student credit hour-the metric. It applies this metric to determine the value of education transmitted at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) for one academic year and the total contribution of UNO to the economy of the…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Metropolitan Areas, College Credits, Institutional Mission
Landis, Melodee; Ferguson, Angela; Carballal, Ana; Kuhlman, Wilman; Squires, Sandra – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
This article examines the efforts of a team of educators in a mid-western urban university in Omaha, Nebraska, to understand why so few persons of color enter the teaching profession and to identify actions that can be taken to attract them. The questions that were posed included the following: (1) What does past research say about recruiting…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Minority Groups, Teacher Recruitment, Career Choice