Women and underrepresented minorities in traditionally White and male-dominated disciplines tend to report lower learning outcomes than their White peers. Adopting a feminist intersectionality framework, this study looks at the intersections of gender and race to investigate differences in self-assessed learning outcomes in engineering…

This study measures the significance of factors used by minority students in their selection of universities/colleges. This web survey was conducted mainly on 778 students enrolled in journalism/mass communication courses representing five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and twelve other universities. Differences were found…

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…

Typically, within this society, Whites are the dominant group and experience certain privileges and inherent power that come with being White. This study investigates how White faculty at Hampton University, one of a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), perceive their experiences teaching at an HBCU. Twenty-one…

This study is designed to collect data on the racial and gender breakdown of personnel at NCAA member conference offices. The NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee (MOIC) and the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics (CWA) will use this data for comparison to similar data that were collected during the 1998-99 academic year. Data were…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) compiled this statistical information regarding the ethnicity and gender demographic information of athletics administrators and coaches in intercollegiate athletics at its member institutions. The proceeding charts, graphs and tables show the results from the 2007-08 academic year. Also included…

Although scholars have examined historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in terms of their educational effectiveness for African American students compared to predominantly white institutions (PWIs), there is a lack of similar research on Hispanic students at Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) and PWIs. This study uses data from the…

This study is an investigation of stress and coping among African American students at a predominantly White college/university (PWCU) and a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) and their relationship to academic performance. Participants were 203 African American students (101 from a mid-size predominantly White midwestern state…

In the early stages of higher education desegregation, there was a disproportionate shifting of black students to historically white institutions. Today, it is estimated that about 82% of all black students in colleges and universities are enrolled in traditionally white institutions. As desegregation proceeded, the conviction grew that it was to…

Holds that Blacks and Whites have conflicting perceptions regarding the educational goals of school desegregation. Says that Whites should be recruited by predominantly Black educational institutions, asserting that minority status would permit Whites to liberate themselves from their self-oppressive ideology of racial superiority. (Author/GC)

Ethnic/race relations among trustees, administrators, faculty, and professional nonfaculty who were affiliated with colleges and universities located in the Southeastern United States during the late 1970s were examined. The macroscopic theory of the split labor market (Bonacich, 1979) was modified and tested within an institutional framework.…