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Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention, 2012
This issue of "Issues in Prevention" focuses on gender-based violence prevention. This issue contains the following articles: (1) Preventing Gender-Based Violence: An Overview (Linda Langford); (2) Q&A With Amelia Cobb; (3) Denim Day at HBCUs; (4) Dear Colleague Letter; (5) ED Grants for Violence Prevention; and (6) Higher Education Center…
Descriptors: Prevention, Gender Differences, Violence, Crime
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Cole, Wade M. – Review of Higher Education, 2011
This paper analyzes whether ethnocentric curricula, defined as courses that focus exclusively on particular racial/ethnic groups, are more prevalent at minority-serving colleges than at mainstream institutions. Using original curricular data for a sample of tribal, Black, Hispanic, and mainstream colleges, the author found that ethnocentric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Hispanic Americans, Puerto Ricans
Irick, Erin, Comp. – National Collegiate Athletic Association (NJ1), 2011
This study is designed to collect data on the racial and gender breakdown of personnel at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) member conference offices. The NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee and the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will use this data for comparison to similar data that were collected during the…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Race, American Indians, Colleges
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Findings from the "American Freshman: National Norms for 1988," conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles, are tabulated. (MLW)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Freshmen, Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Jackson, Lisa R. – 1998
This study examined how African American women defined who they were in their respective college contexts, focusing on the roles of gender, race, and institutional type. A total of 20 women from a white coeducational institution, a predominantly white women's college, and a coeducational, historically black college participated in in-depth…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Colleges, Educational Experience
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1985
The papers of this proceedings are presented in three parts. The four papers in part 1, "Issues in 20th Century American Education", discuss the women graduates of Oberlin College, 1836-1860, the Americanization of art museums, the business community's response to government's support of the labor movement, and the response of liberalism…
Descriptors: Art, Black Colleges, Business Education, Children
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1977
The freshman survey data reported here have been weighted to provide a normative picture of the college freshman population for persons engaged in policy analysis, manpower planning, administration, educational research, guidance and counseling, as well as for the general community of students and parents. The survey instrument was the Student…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Black Colleges, Church Related Colleges, College Freshmen
ERIC Review, 1997
The "ERIC Review" announces research results, publications, and new programs relevant to each issue's theme topic. This issue is a compendium of resources, advice, and research to help guidance counselors, parents, and students plan for college. The first section, "Starting Out on the Path to College," contains the following articles: "Why Get on…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Black Colleges, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Marks, Joseph L.; Diaz, Alicia A. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
The "Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fact Book on Higher Education" is one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education. For decades, state leaders, policy-makers, researchers and journalists have used the "Fact Book" to find useful data quickly--and to learn more about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Technical Institutes, Tuition