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Haizlip, Breyan N. – College Student Journal, 2012
Over the last two decades, there has been an upward trend in the number of African-American doctoral students completing counseling and psychology programs. However, despite these trends, African-American faculty continue to be significantly underrepresented as counseling educators and psychology faculty. Similarly, counseling education programs…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Counseling, Minority Groups, African American Students
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Stotzer, Rebecca L.; Hossellman, Emily – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Colleges and universities across the US have prioritized minority enrollments in their recruitment strategies, but theories offer to possible outcomes of increasing diversity on campus--increased racial harmony or increased racial tension. This study examines the impact of racial diversity on the reported number of hate crimes that occur on…
Descriptors: College Environment, Recruitment, Higher Education, On Campus Students
Tabatadze, Shalva; Gorgadze, Natia – Online Submission, 2013
This document is the report on research which was undertaken by the Center of Civil Integration and Inter-Ethnic Relations and financed by the United Nations Association in Georgia within the project "Advanced National Integration" funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The research aimed at the evaluation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affirmative Action, College Admission, Student Recruitment
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Ofstedal, Mary B.; Weir, David R. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose: Minority oversamples of African Americans and Hispanics have been a key feature of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) design from its origins in 1992. The objective of this article was to assess the quality of the HRS with respect to the recruitment and retention of minority respondents. Design and Methods: To evaluate minority…
Descriptors: Retirement, Baby Boomers, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Whites
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Mendez-Luck, Carolyn A.; Trejo, Laura; Miranda, Jeanne; Jimenez, Elizabeth; Quiter, Elaine S.; Mangione, Carol M. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose: We describe the recruitment strategies and personnel and materials costs associated with two community-based research studies in a Mexican-origin population. We also highlight the role that academic-community partnerships played in the outreach and recruitment process for our studies. We reviewed study documents using case study…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Costs, Mexican Americans, School Community Relationship
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Lichtenberg, Peter A. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose: Effective strategies to recruit minority elders into health research (e.g., through churches, partnering with community gatekeepers) often involve nonrandom sampling methods. The current study has two aims: (a) to examine some new practices in recruitment of African American elders and (b) to determine the similarities and differences of…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Participatory Research, African Americans, Needs Assessment
LaVergne, Douglas D.; Larke, Alvin, Jr.; Elbert, Chanda D.; Jones, Wash A. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2011
This study analyzed Texas secondary agricultural education teachers' (n = 232) attitudes toward diversity inclusion in Texas secondary agricultural education programs. Using a web-based questionnaire, the researcher employed a nonproportional stratified random sampling technique. Researchers used descriptive statistics to report demographic and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Agricultural Education, Sampling, Science Teachers
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Napoles, Anna M.; Chadiha, Letha A. – Gerontologist, 2011
We highlight several critical challenges that must be addressed to accelerate the advancement of the science on recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse older adults into health research. These include the relative lack of attention by researchers to methodological issues related to recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Comparative Analysis, Health, Evidence
Williams, Shernay; Coleman, Toni – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
The accelerated master's degree in nursing program at the Georgia Health Sciences University, formerly the Medical College of Georgia, has seen its minority student enrollment grow from just a smattering when it launched in 2006 to 16 percent last fall. Incremental increases in minority student enrollment--GHSU's nursing program currently enrolls…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nurses, Economically Disadvantaged, Nursing
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Ejiogu, Ngozi; Norbeck, Jennifer H.; Mason, Marc A.; Cromwell, Bridget C.; Zonderman, Alan B.; Evans, Michele K. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose of the study: Investigating health disparities requires studies designed to recruit and retain racially and socioeconomically diverse cohorts. It is critical to address the barriers that disproportionately affect participation in clinical research by minorities and the socioeconomically disadvantaged. This study sought to identify and…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Models, Economically Disadvantaged, Urban Environment
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Melguizo, Tatiana; Chung, Anna – Review of Higher Education, 2012
The main objective of this study is to identify differences in the freshman financial aid packages of low-income, high-achieving minority students in public and private institutions. Our results suggest that private and selective institutions can offer better financial aid packages that enable them to recruit higher numbers of low-income,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Student Financial Aid, Minority Groups, College Freshmen
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Perrakis, Athena; Campbell, D. Michael; Antonaros, Mary – Community College Enterprise, 2009
The authors examine the current community college presidential pipeline and offer possible explanations for poor CEO representation from diverse populations. They explore a relationship between CEO satisfaction and diversity by testing whether CEO satisfaction is correlated to campus and administrative diversity. While data from the study…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Higher Education, Recruitment
Forde, Dana – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
Hispanics and Blacks make up about 15.1 and 12.9 percent of the U.S. population, respectively, and 3.3 and 3.9 percent of the lawyer population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Law School Admission Council. On the other hand, Whites represent about 69.1 percent of the general population and 89.2 percent of the lawyer population. These…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Lawyers, Recruitment, Disproportionate Representation
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Kamassah, Sharon – College Quarterly, 2010
This research study focused on the factors that enable women of South Asian and African descent to succeed as leaders in the college system. The findings were derived from online questionnaires and in-depth interviews of 16 racialized women from two Greater Toronto Area (GTA) colleges. Many factors and recommendations were shared. Some of the…
Descriptors: Employees, Females, Leadership, Recruitment
Cejda, Brent D., Ed.; Murray, John P., Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This volume contains the following papers: (1) Preparing to Hire the Best in the Perfect Storm (John P. Murray); (2) New Faculty Issues: Fitting In and Figuring It Out (Pamela L. Eddy); (3) An Approach to a Faculty Professional Development Seminar (Mary Bendickson and Karen Griffin); (4) Faculty Issues in Rural Community Colleges (Brent D. Cejda);…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Women Faculty, Personnel Selection, College Presidents
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