the occupational choices of high-achieving minority students /
First Statement of Responsibility
Stephen Cole, Elinor Barber with Melissa Bolyard and Annulla Linders.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, Mass. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) :
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illustrations
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-358) and indexes.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Annotation In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial diversity of their student bodies. They have been less successful, however, in diversifying their faculties. This book identifies the ways in which minority students make occupational choices, what their attitudes are toward a career in academia, and why so few become college professors. Working with a large sample of high-achieving minority students from a variety of institutions, the authors conclude that minority students are no less likely than white students to aspire to academic careers. But because minorities are less likely to go to college and less likely to earn high grades within college, few end up going to graduate school. The shortage of minority academics is not a result of the failure of educational institutions to hire them; but of the very small pool of minority Ph. D. candidates. In examining why some minorities decide to become academics, the authors conclude that same-race role models are no more effective than white role models and that affirmative action contributes to the problem by steering minority students to schools where they perform relatively poorly. They end with policy recommendations on how more minority students might be attracted to an academic career.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Increasing faculty diversity.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Faculty integration-- United States.
Minority college graduates-- Employment-- United States.
Minority college teachers-- United States.
Vocational interests-- United States.
Déségrégation chez les enseignants-- États-Unis.
Diplômés d'université issus des minorités-- Travail-- États-Unis.
Intérêts professionnels-- États-Unis.
Professeurs issus des minorités (Enseignement supérieur)-- États-Unis.