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Peer reviewedEvanoski, Patricia Orsatti – Community Review, 1988
Reviews the literature on mentoring. Offers recommendations for developing mentoring programs in higher education, focusing on programs for new faculty and administrators, for women and minority faculty and administrators, for alumni, for members of professional organizations, and for students. Details institutional responsibilities. (DMM)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Role, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education
Brathwaite, Frank – 1986
Despite the current need for strong leadership skills to facilitate task achievement, individual development, and social action in an increasingly complex society, women are failing to make significant headway in educational administration. Lack of leadership opportunities for women limits both individual and organizational potential. The problem…
Descriptors: Administrators, Affirmative Action, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textBruyere, Susanne M.; Hoying, Joyce – 1995
One of a series of guides on implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), this guide focuses on cultural diversity and the ADA. First, the major components of the ADA are summarized. This is followed by discussion of employer considerations in addressing cultural diversity issues and implications of the ADA, such as diversity…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal)
Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1997
In the federal case from New Jersey, "Taxman v. Board of Education of Township of Piscataway," the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a school board cannot use affirmative-action guidelines to decide which employees will be laid off. This article explains the precedents upon which the court based its August 1996 decision. (LMI)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Board of Education Role, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2000
This publication presents six primary tools employers can use to narrow or eliminate pay gaps in their workplaces. After each tool is a discussion of the problem and examples of "best practices" by employers that have won the Department of Labor's Opportunity 2000 and EVE (Exemplary Voluntary Efforts) awards. The report is divided into six tools:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Affirmative Action, Diversity (Institutional), Employed Women
Finlay, Cheryl Schratz; Crosson, Patricia H. – Administrator's Update, 1981
The status of women in higher education administration and strategies for increasing their numbers are considered, based on research studies on women and job structures in higher education, and from information on organizations and programs. General observations based on the studies include the following: women are underrepresented in major…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Selection, Administrators, Affirmative Action
