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Mullins, Vanessa R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative single descriptive case study addressed the perspectives of how minority women perceived higher education institutions support or lack of support in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The problem was that there is a disproportionately small number of minority women being prepared to fill STEM jobs.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Minority Groups, Females, Higher Education
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Broido, Ellen M.; Brown, Kirsten R.; Stygles, Katherine N.; Bronkema, Ryan H. – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
In this feminist, constructivist case study we explored how 28 classified, administrative, and faculty women's experiences working at one university for 25-40 years have changed. Participants ranged from 45- to 70-years-old at the time of their interview, with more than half older than 60, and 84% identified as White. Women with extended history…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Feminism, Women Faculty, Women Administrators
Jones, Eric K. – Multicultural Education, 2011
One of the most common obstacles the author finds when teaching media literacy courses is student insensitivity. Although this can exist for many different reasons, the media critiques that students submit in this type of class indicate that they've become indifferent to misogynistic, classist, and racist stereotypes. On the collegiate level, this…
Descriptors: Race, Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Racial Relations