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Pierce, Yolanda – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
The New York Times recently published an article titled "Little Advance Is Seen in Ivies' Hiring of Minorities and Women." The article leaves the reader with two distinct impressions: First, the pool of qualified minority scholars is just too small. And second, domestic issues make these high-powered jobs unattractive to female scholars.…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Selective Admission, College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty)
Wilmouth, David – 1991
This paper examines the controversies surrounding the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and its use in college admissions policies. An early section reviews the history and development of the test. Next the essay reviews a series of challenges to the SAT: many argue that the structure of the examination is biased against women and minorities. Others…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Economically Disadvantaged
Hall, Colette, Ed. – 1989
The conference proceedings contains 27 papers or summaries concerned with integration of gender, race, and class in the college curriculum. After an introductory paper on the Ursinus model (Colette Hall), remarks concerning New Jersey projects (Connie Murray and Verdelle Freeman) and the keynote address (Margaret Andersen), the first set of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Download full textGarber, Herbert; Schell, Robert E. – 1977
Attrition rates at the State University of New York at Oswego are investigated in this paper. In 1975-76 51 percent of the students who entered as freshmen failed to graduate. The major objective of the study was to isolate and describe the differences that exist in the rates and modes of attrition among students who entered the college as…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
California Univ., Berkeley. Board of Regents. – 1979
The development is described of a master plan to increase the rate of enrollment and retention of minority, women, and handicapped student transfers from the California Community Colleges (CCC) to the University of California (UC) and the California State Universities and Colleges (CSUC). The report first cites the larger proportion of minority…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Enrollment Rate, Females
Quay, Richard H. – 1981
A bibliography of articles by Alexander W. Astin on the social psychology of higher education is presented. Entries are presented by year, starting with 1980 and dating back to 1956. Topics that are covered include: equal access to higher education, student persistence and attrition, higher education policy, selective admissions and open…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Activism
