Discusses the limited number of African Americans involved in any aspect of nursing programs--as undergraduate students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members. Also looks at the problems encountered by African Americans in academe. Offers strategies for recruiting and retaining African-American nursing faculty. (JOW)

Ranken Technical College in St. Louis, Missouri increased African American student enrollment 400 percent over a 10-year period by offering preentrance remedial courses and a learning resource center, monitoring progress, and providing financial aid. (JOW)

Describes the historical participation of African-Americans in technology education and their struggle to obtain degrees. The role of historically black colleges and universities in providing opportunities, the need for African-American faculty role models, and strategies for recruitment and retention of African-American faculty and students are…

Examines the influence of race and place on nurse education and employment after World War II. Comparing the postwar experiences of foreign and African American nurses, it argues that local hiring patterns have sustained low rates of minority participation in nursing. (66 references) (Author/JOW)

Describes a model for the delivery of programs and services for recruiting, retaining, and graduating African-American students. Notes that piecemeal programs neither increase the enrollment of African-American students nor slow their rate of attrition. (DM)

Eleven techniques to recruit minority faculty are presented including: begin at the top for commitment to affirmative action; monitor department heads; search among the faculty of Black colleges; send administrators to national meetings of Black educators; etc. (MLW)

Considers need for colleges and universities to develop effective marketing plan for recruitment of black students. Highlights advantages of designing marketing plan for recruitment of black alumni to assist in recruitment and retention of black students. Identifies key indicators that often hinder institutions in their recruitment of black…

Two trends will impact the academic labor force through the rest of this century: approximately half of the existing professorial positions are held by persons within 15 years of retirement, and demographic projections are that by the year 2000, ethnic minority groups will constitute 30% of the national population. Underrepresented minority…

The experiences of a black woman trustee for the University of Illinois are described. Public institutions of higher education are discovering that their viability during the next few decades could rely heavily on attracting and nurturing minority students. (MLW)

Increasing participation of Black students in high technology vocational programs requires (1) eliminating negative attitudes about vocational education; (2) introducing technology education in elementary and middle schools; and (3) linking vocational programs with community opportunities, for example, through the work of vocational-technical…

Traces minority participation in higher education from the 1970s to the present period of decline. Finds discriminatory policies impede the hiring of minority faculty. Offers strategies for enhancing the minority presence at all campus levels. (DM)

Discusses systemic and individual racism within society and within higher education and considers its effects on the behavior and attitudes of librarians of color and their white colleagues. Highlights include institutional challenges; recruitment; job satisfaction; retention; and racism. (Contains 24 references.) (LRW)

Discusses the paucity of African Americans as administrators and educational leaders in college and university health, physical education, and recreation departments; suggests some barriers to ethnic diversity at such levels and proposes several strategies to open more leadership positions to African Americans. (MDM)

This article briefly describes the decline of the number of minority teachers at a time when the numbers of minority students are increasing and are projected to increase through the end of this century. The article reports a variety of studies and statistics which reflect this trend. (JL)

Examines affirmative action and other measures being taken to improve the representation of women and minorities in the State Department and the U.S. Foreign Service. Suggests that institutional barriers to improving the status of minorities in the Department include discriminatory attitudes of officers concerning recruitment, hiring, promotions,…