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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
Beilin, Robert; Rabow, Jerome – 1979
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of ethnicity and course structure on academic achievement at the college level. The sample consisted of 298 undergraduate students: 65% white, 12.5% Asian, 9.5% Hispanic, 9% black, and 4% other racial/ethnic groups. Students were randomly assigned to one of two introductory sociology sections. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Blacks, Critical Thinking