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Kim, Kyung-Sun; Sin, Sei-Ching Joanna – Library Quarterly, 2008
The proportion of ethnic minorities in the LIS school student population has remained significantly lower than in the U.S. population: in 2002, ethnic minorities constituted only 11.3 percent of the LIS student population, compared to 31.3 percent of the U.S. population. Despite efforts by LIS schools and associations in recruiting and retaining…
Descriptors: Librarian Attitudes, Cultural Pluralism, School Holding Power, Disproportionate Representation
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Griffiths, Megan; Sawrikar, Pooja; Muir, Kristy – Youth Studies Australia, 2009
Little is known about how to appropriately adapt mentoring programs for young people from the Horn of Africa, even though they have been arriving in Australia in significantly increasing numbers. These young people face unique challenges as a result of their age, ethnicity, migration and direct/indirect trauma experiences. The results of this…
Descriptors: Mentors, Youth, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Marcus, Laurence R. – Educational Record, 1977
Several aspects of faculty hiring are considered: (1) the efficiency of the network approach in providing job applicants; (2) reaching women and minority applicants through the network system; and (3) the extent of the change in recruitment practices brought on by advertising. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Advertising, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Faculty Recruitment
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Zhou, Zheng; Bray, Melissa A.; Kehle, Thomas J.; Theodore, Lea A.; Clark, Elaine; Jenson, William R. – Psychology in the Schools, 2004
The article addresses the demographic characteristics of students in school psychology programs nationwide with respect to providing a rationale for the importance of increasing the proportion of minority school psychologists who are underrepresented. Emphasis on training culturally competent psychologists is reviewed within a historical context.…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, School Psychologists, Graduate Study, School Psychology
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Gajda, Rebbeca; Militello, Matthew – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2008
Research indicates that the leadership of a school principal is a determining factor in school effectiveness, second only to the role of a student's classroom teacher. Yet, the species of "principal" is dwindling. National reports indicate that a great number of schools and districts are experiencing a shortage of a qualified pool of…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Supply and Demand, School Effectiveness, Educational Quality
Berry, Barnett; Daughtrey, Alesha; Wieder, Alan – Center for Teaching Quality, 2009
Over the last decade, policy and business leaders have come to know what parents have always known: teachers are the largest school-based factor in student achievement. Yet not all schools have equal access to the most effective teachers. High-needs schools that serve large proportions of economically disadvantaged and minority students are more…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Teacher Collaboration
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Rapp, Kelly E.; Eckes, Suzanne E. – Educational Policy, 2007
At the outset of the charter school movement, some opponents feared that charter schools would become havens for White students wishing to flee the traditional public school system, resulting in publicly funded segregation. However, studies suggest that this has not occurred. In fact, charter schools on average remain slightly racially segregated,…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Enrollment, White Students, Racial Composition
Mamaril, Natasha J. A; Royal, Kenneth D. – Online Submission, 2008
This review of the literature investigates the various factors identified by researchers to explain women's underrepresentation in the engineering field. Because a great deal of research has been published through the years, a compilation summary of existing research was necessary. This literature review utilized searches from thousands of…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering, Gender Discrimination
Nevin, Ann I.; Barbetta, Patricia; Cramer, Elizabeth – Online Submission, 2009
The mission for Urban SEALS (Special Education Academic Leaders), a federally funded doctoral preparation program, is to prepare doctoral-level special educators, including those who are culturally and/or linguistically diverse (CLD) to assume leadership roles in the education of urban students with disabilities who are CLD. This report provides…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Doctoral Programs, Program Effectiveness, Special Education Teachers
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Brewer, Julie – College & Research Libraries, 1997
Post-master's residency programs are one way academic and research libraries can prepare new library professionals and recruit minorities. A survey of 109 past residents analyzed ethnicity, race, and gender of librarians and type of library; characteristics of respondents and residency programs; attributes of supervisors; and position titles and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Ethnicity, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education
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Dahlberg, Teresa; Barnes, Tiffany; Buch, Kim; Rorrer, Audrey – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
The Students and Technology in Academia, Research, and Service (STARS) Alliance is a nationally-connected system of regional partnerships among higher education, K-12 schools, industry and the community with a mission to broaden the participation of women, under-represented minorities and persons with disabilities in computing (BPC). Each regional…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Leadership
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Poock, Michael C. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2008
Efforts to recruit and retain a diverse graduate population at colleges and universities are undergoing a paradigm shift. Diversity has traditionally been operationalized as racial minority, yet recent court decisions have indicated that such a definition is legally problematic. As a result, institutional leaders are moving toward defining…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Models, Teacher Role, Student Recruitment
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Davenport, Dennis E.; Porter, Bonita – PRIMUS, 2008
The decreasing number of U.S. citizens with advanced degrees in the mathematical sciences is a growing concern. Also of concern is the small number of advanced degrees in the sciences going to African Americans, Latinos, and women. Several Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs have been developed to address these issues. In this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Females, Minority Groups, Graduate Study
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Shuster, Michele; Peterson, Karen – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2009
The war on cancer has been waged for nearly 40 years, yet the cancer burden remains high, especially among minority and underserved populations. One strategy to make strides in the war on cancer and its disparate impacts is to increase the diversity of the cancer research workforce. We describe an approach to recruit a diverse population of future…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cancer, Student Surveys, Oncology
Jaschik, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Colleges must make radical changes in their structure, values, hiring practices, and the way they treat students if they want to attract more minority students and professors. Faculty members are given little incentive to work with minority students. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Change Strategies, College Faculty
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