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Shinnar, Rachel S.; Williams, Harry L. – Planning for Higher Education, 2008
This paper presents an innovative approach to attracting and retaining faculty members from underrepresented populations at Appalachian State University (ASU). The need for, and benefits of, faculty diversity in academia is presented. The challenges in recruiting and retaining faculty from diverse backgrounds are discussed. The Faculty Fellows…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), College Faculty, State Universities, Faculty Recruitment
Butler, Tara A. – National Governors Association, 2009
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) leads a Mission Growth Working Group, which consists of states that are significantly impacted by the growth of military bases. The group includes state representatives appointed by the governors of Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Facilities, Educational Demand, Population Growth
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, Chapel Hill, NC. – 2002
This report examines the difficulties schools encounter as they seek qualified teachers. The paper focuses on the southeastern portion of the United States, using North Carolina as a case study. Emerging teacher shortages in the state have put pressure on administrators to staff classrooms at all costs, weakening the case for high standards for…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Recruitment, Teacher Employment
McCullough, Page; Johnson, Jerry – Rural School and Community Trust, 2007
This report describes, on a number of measures, the challenges facing low-wealth rural school districts in eastern North Carolina as they relate to issues of teacher quality and ensuring that students have a good teacher in each classroom. It describes five strategies that are being used in rural areas throughout the country to respond to these…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Low Income
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Kurtts, Stephanie A.; Cooper, Jewell E.; Boyles, Carolyn – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2007
In North Carolina, where the state must hire 10,000 teachers every year just to fill existing classrooms, highly qualified special education teachers are included in the top three areas of greatest teacher shortage, behind math and science. Such needs, which include an increase in teachers from ethnic minorities, challenge teacher educators to…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Educators, Teacher Recruitment
Williamson, Kimberly F. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine students enrolled at community colleges and universities in North Carolina about their perceptions of their college preparation experiences. The study specifically examined student perceptions as to the role that high school teachers, high school counselors, parents, and college admissions and recruiting…
Descriptors: High Schools, College Preparation, Community Colleges, High School Graduates
Charney, Jonathan – School Administrator, 2009
Schools in America, especially in communities far from urban centers, are working harder to find highly qualified and culturally proficient staff to prepare students successfully for an increasingly interconnected world. Apart from offering teachers more professional development and hiring educators with international travel experience, public…
Descriptors: Travel, Personnel Selection, Teacher Exchange Programs, School Districts
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Mitts, Charles R. – Journal of Technology Education, 2008
Society is increasingly dominated by rapidly evolving systems of technology. The goal of technology education, as an academic component of public education, is to ensure that students become "technologically literate" members of society who are able to understand, access, use, manage, and control these technological systems.…
Descriptors: Social Status, Sex Fairness, Technology Education, Gender Bias
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Dahlberg, Teresa; Barnes, Tiffany; Buch, Kim; Rorrer, Audrey – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
The Students and Technology in Academia, Research, and Service (STARS) Alliance is a nationally-connected system of regional partnerships among higher education, K-12 schools, industry and the community with a mission to broaden the participation of women, under-represented minorities and persons with disabilities in computing (BPC). Each regional…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Leadership
Holcombe, Amy – Principal Leadership, 2009
This article describes a multifaceted program that improves the mathematics instruction in a school district's 10 lowest-performing schools. This program includes seven support components--including monetary incentives for teachers, professional development, education technology, and reduced class sizes. After three years, results show that the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Technology, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Excerpts from recently-released Department of Education reports outline the success of Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia in recruiting black students and faculty to predominantly white state colleges and universities. (MSE)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Black Teachers, College Desegregation
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Poock, Michael C.; Bishop, Virginia Andrews – Community College Journal of Research & Practice, 2006
This study examined the characteristics of a community college Web site by using focus groups and questionnaires with currently enrolled students. Consistent with other studies, organization and content are highly valued. Unlike previous studies, however, many participants did not utilize the Web at all in their application process. This study…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes
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Price, Rebecca M.; Rosypal, Alexa C.; Kern, Britt; Powell, Traci – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2008
This paper describes a one-and-a-half day Distinguished Scholar Symposium during which undergraduate underrepresented minorities (URMs) from nearby schools visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to learn about advanced degree programs in the biological sciences. The symposium created an environment that inspired URMs to…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Science Programs, Community Colleges, Biological Sciences
Barnes, Gary; Crowe, Edward: Schaefer, Benjamin – National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2007
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study of the cost of teacher turnover in five school districts. We examine the rate of turnover, the relationship between turnover and teacher and school characteristics, and the costs associated with recruiting, hiring, and training replacement teachers. We find evidence that turnover costs,…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Costs
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Donahue, William Collins; Wohlfeil, Jochen – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2007
DepaeThe new conditions of the study abroad "market" have impelled us to rethink the costs and benefits of a small, selective US-based program, such as Duke in Berlin. The principal advantage, we argue, is an environment of "academic intimacy," a generous teacher/student ratio, which in turn fosters additional undergraduate…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Environment, Study Abroad, Teacher Student Relationship
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