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Direct linkTerrell F. Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While Black students have experienced significant growth in college enrollment since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Higher Education Act of 1965, they are still less likely than their white counterparts to attend and graduate from a post-secondary institution (Ryan & Bauman, 2016). There have been previous studies on college…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, College Choice, College School Cooperation
Favish, J.; Hendry, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The article outlines how UCT's commitment to redress and diversity has officially guided the university's approach to admissions planning. In 2009 the Senate requested the Vice Chancellor to conduct a review of the admissions policy particularly to determine whether race continued to be an adequate proxy for disadvantage. This article analyses…
Descriptors: Universities, College Admission, School Policy, Race
Staples, Brent – New York Times Magazine, 1986
The numbers of Black and minority students and faculty at universities are declining for a number of reasons: Federal student aid and compensatory programs are being cut back, admissions standards are stiffening and many inner-city students are ill-prepared to compete; and universities are making less of an effort to recruit Black students outside…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Black Students, Black Teachers, Blacks
Poock, Michael C.; Berryhill, Peggy O. – College and University, 2000
Reviewed graduate school applications via the World Wide Web to the University of North Carolina Graduate School since 1997. Highest percentage of online applicants were Hispanics and Asian Americans; African Americans and Native Americans showed the lowest percentage of online applications. Online applicants tended to have higher graduate record…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, College Admission
Peer reviewedSt. John, Edward P.; Noell, Jay – Research in Higher Education, 1989
The effects of aid offers on enrollment decisions by college applicants from the classes of 1972, 1980, and 1982, and the effects the type of aid offered had on minority students are analyzed. All types of aid had a positive impact on decisions by college applicants including minority students. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Background, Blacks, College Admission
Peer reviewedBridgeman, Brent; McHale, Frederick – Research in Higher Education, 1998
A study investigated the effect of adding a writing measure to the Graduate Management Admission Test on the gender/ethnic composition of an admissions pool. Standardized differences from the white male reference group were computed for men and women in four ethnic/minority groups: Whites, Asian-Americans, African-Americans, and…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Business Administration Education, College Admission
