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Download full textTalburt, Susan – 1996
This study examined the social and political climate surrounding the opening of a controversial gay/lesbian/bisexual support office at an anonymous midwestern public research university. In addition to analyses of university mission statements, plans, and policies, other "diversity" literature, and campus and local newspapers, fieldwork…
Descriptors: Bisexuality, Civil Rights, Consciousness Raising, Diversity (Institutional)
Choi, Yearn H. – 1981
Equity is a significant area of public administration which is integral to all disciplines that relate to the public interest, including vocational education. Vocational education is designed to achieve equity. The Vocational Education Act of 1963 mandated ready access of all persons of all ages in all communities to vocational education of high…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Educational Discrimination, Educational Legislation
Peer reviewedGreene, Maxine – Curriculum Inquiry, 1985
Discusses the "American jeremiad"--a pervasive ideological theme portraying a national mission and our failures in achieving it--and the influence of this ideology on elementary and secondary education. (MCG)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Back to Basics, Conformity, Conservatism
Burke, Penny Jane – 2002
This book about widening educational participation draws on an ethnographic study of 23 students returning to learning through access courses provided at their local further education college in suburban England. Chapter 1 explains how certain poststructural concepts (discourse, hegemony, deconstruction, and subjectivity) are used as analytical…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Continuation Students, Developed Nations
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. – 1979
Information on eleven conferences focusing on post-Bakke policy and sponsored by the American Council on Education for administrators of high-demand programs is presented. An introductory report by Todd Furniss ("Professional Education After Bakke") discusses the rationale for the conferences and examines some of the implications for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Hogges, Ralph – 1979
Current experiences and practices that exist in some colleges and universities that violate the Civil Rights Act and affirmative action legislation are discussed. Treatment of the average black, other minority, and women candidates as compared to the average white candidate is questioned in regard to staff recruitment, assignment to line as…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Black Teachers, Civil Rights
Bird, John – 1996
This study of black students' access to higher education and their progression into employment is based on two research studies conducted in England between 1989 and 1992 at a group of schools and higher education institutions. The text is illustrated throughout by quotations from students, educational staff, and the two research studies. The…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Black Achievement, Black Community
