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Peer reviewedSaunders, Deloris M. – Negro Educational Review, 1981
Evaluates the impact of the 1954 "Brown" decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on equal opportunity for women. Reviews the similar struggles faced by Blacks and women in the areas of education and employment. (GC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textWilliams, Bruce – Australian Universities' Review, 1989
The evolution of the faculty and working conditions at the University of Sydney (Australia) since its founding are chronicled, focusing on academic ranks and promotion, the growth of the faculty, internal governance, tenure, policy on sabbatical leave, salary levels, and the status of academics in the community. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational History
Peer reviewedStanley, Amy Dru – Journal of American History, 1988
Explores how the post-bellum U.S. code of contract denied married women the right to own their labor and their wages. Maps the legal symmetry between slavery and marriage, contradicting contemporary ideologies that placed the right to work for wages as a cardinal freedom. Discusses "earnings" laws passed by state legislatures that…
Descriptors: Contracts, Employed Women, Females, Feminism
Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
During the period when the economic depression was most serious having the effect upon schools, the Office of Education presented relevant data in a number of different publications. This chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education reviews the most significant findings in those publications and draws them together as a permanent report of some of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Economic Impact, Educational Assessment
Mushkin, Selma J., Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
In the past few years an important beginning has been made toward defining and exploring the major issues in the economics of higher education. The research of economists covers a wide range of problems, from that of the Nation's requirements for college-trained people, to detailed questions of financing. Perhaps no single area of this work offers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Financial Support, Labor Force Development
Jacques, Jeffrey M.; Hall, Robert L. – 1980
Ethnic/race relations among trustees, administrators, faculty, and professional nonfaculty who were affiliated with colleges and universities located in the Southeastern United States during the late 1970s were examined. The macroscopic theory of the split labor market (Bonacich, 1979) was modified and tested within an institutional framework.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
Activities in higher education during the biennium 1924-1926 do not seem to have been inspired merely by the desire to pacify criticism of details or to patch up weak spots in the educational fabric. The tendency was to "raise the previous question concerning the functions of colleges and universities and to modify procedures to serve more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Educational Objectives, Surveys
