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Attracting Minority Community/Junior College Students to Teaching.
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Contreras, Gloria; Nicklas, Willis L. – Action in Teacher Education, 1993
A pilot project provided a summer transitional experience from high school or two-year college into a comprehensive higher education institution to enhance the quality and increase the numbers of minorities attracted to teacher education programs. Project results were very positive. All enrolled students completed the program. (SM)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Preparation, High School Students, Higher Education
Attracting and Recruiting an Ethnically Diverse Teaching Force.
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Contreras, Gloria; Engelhardt, Jon M. – Teacher Education and Practice, 1991
Presents information from a Texas conference which examined the problems of creating an ethnically diverse teaching force. Recommendations for recruiting culturally diverse students into teaching are provided, focusing on the role of public school educators, university personnel, state legislators, education agency personnel, educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, College Students, Cultural Pluralism
Summer Transitional Programs to Attract Minorities to Teaching.
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Nicklas, Willis L.; Contreras, Gloria – Teacher Education and Practice, 1991
Describes the successful University of North Texas Minority Teacher Recruitment Program's transitional experience for recruiting minority two-year college and high school students via a five-week, university-based summer session. Recommendations to colleges of education include promote forgivable loan programs; prioritize low student transfer…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Transfer Students, Cultural Differences, Equal Education