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New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Office of Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1979
In this booklet, information to assist superintendents, personnel directors, and their official recruiters in locating, recruiting, assigning and promoting qualified women and men of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds is provided. Employee concerns are outlined. Specific suggestions are given for ways of recruiting women and minorities.…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Affirmative Action, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women
Jackson, Dorothy J.; Pitterle, Kenneth J. – 1978
A study was conducted to assess the feasibility of operating an internship program to increase the number of talented women and minority educational researchers and to encourage the pursuit of fresh educational research related to their special concerns. The study focused on women and minority junior faculty (assistant professors, lecturers, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Feasibility Studies
Hill-Brisbane, Djanna; Easley-Mosby, Kenya – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
One of the greatest challenges for the Unites States as a nation, and for Paterson, NJ in particular, is how to attract and retain academically and pedagogically talented teachers for urban schools--teachers who are committed to remain in those schools to do the difficult, long-term work of reform and renewal. This work is critical if urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Change Agents, Educational Change, Data Analysis
New Jersey State Coll. Governing Boards Association, Inc., Trenton. – 1991
This report provides a discussion of trends in minority student participation at colleges, statistical information on this topic, and a review of the trends and progress of initiatives at New Jersey's nine state colleges. Recommendations are provided for programs and approaches that will increase the likelihood that minorities will enter college…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Preparation, Educational Planning, Enrollment
Brookdale Community Coll., Lincroft, NJ. – 1984
The Program to Attract Minority Youth to Careers in Engineering and Technology (Project PACE) was designed to bring together minority youth from area high schools with role models recruited from area industries in a program providing vocational guidance, career exploration, and tutorial assistance in mathematics and science with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Employment Opportunities
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. – 1988
New Jersey's plan for increasing minority group participation in higher education is presented. The plan, developed in response to declining minority enrollments, outlines eight goals for student recruitment and retention and the strategies intended to achieve them. The goals concern strengthening efforts to attract academically prepared minority…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Environment
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in New Jersey, Summit. – 1987
A comprehensive plan is provided to support and strengthen New Jersey's 16 independent colleges and universities. Five major challenges that these institutions and the state must collaboratively confront are discussed: strengthening the quality of collegiate education; keeping New Jersey economically competitive in national and world markets;…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, College Planning, College School Cooperation
McClanahan, Wendy S.; Sipe, Cynthia L.; Smith, Thomas J. – Public/Private Ventures, 2004
To determine the impact of the Summer Career Exploration Program (SCEP), a privately funded summer jobs program for low-income teens, P/PV examined the lives of over 1700 applicants. These youth were randomly assigned to participate or to not participate in SCEP in the summer of 1999, and their outcomes were compared at four and twelve months…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, Comparative Analysis