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Navigating Uncharted Paths to the American Professoriate: Experiences of Immigrant Black Female Faculty
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Tetteh, Lilian Naa Obiorkor; Zaier, Amani; Maina, Faith – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to examine the challenges of immigrant black female faculty (IBFFs) from Africa who have joined the American professoriate and also explore the cognitive processing behind student and staff perception and expectations of immigrant professors of color. This category of scholars faces the intersectional "triple…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Blacks, Immigrants
Success against the Odds: The Effect of Mentoring on the Careers of Senior Black and Minority Ethnic Academics in the UK
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Bhopal, Kalwant – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
This article explores the effect of mentoring on the career progression of Black and minority ethnic (BME) academics in senior roles in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). It draws on 37 interviews with BME academics working in HEIs in the UK and argues that whilst universities present a strong rhetoric of equality and diversity; this is not…
Descriptors: Career Development, Blacks, Minority Group Teachers, College Faculty
Persistence, Connection, and Passion: A Qualitative Study of the Career Development of Highly Achieving African American-Black and White Women.
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Richie, Beth Sperber; Fassinger, Ruth E.; Linn, Sonja Geschmay; Johnson, Judith; Prosser, Joann; Robinson, Sandra – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1997
Describes a qualitative study of the career development of 18 prominent, high achieving African American-Black and White women in the United States. Presents a model, with five major components, that was generated from the career development of the participants and was grounded in their experiences. Discusses implications of the study. (RJM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Development, Females, High Achievement
Career Patterns of a National Sample of Women. Research and Development Series No. 95 (Re-issue). Final Report.
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Vetter, Louise; Stockburger, David W. – 1977
Findings of a study are reported that applied two career pattern systems for women to historical data collected in 1967 on a national sample of 4,996 black and white women ages 30-34. Information was provided on (1) the proportion of women who can be classified into each career pattern in the system(s), and (2) relationships of career development…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Career Development, Careers
Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future?
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs
Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change