Despite their increased numbers, women and minority faculty remain underrepresented in higher education. This report compares and contrasts the workplace experiences of female, Latino, Black, Asian, and Native American faculty. Aguirre examines the organizational features of the academic workplace and explores the challenges of professional socialization.
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ADALBERTO AGUIRRE is Professor of Sociology a the University of California-Riverside. His primary research interests are in the areas of sociolinguistics, sociology of education, critical race theory, and higher education. He has authored books and research articles on such topics as race and ethnic relations. affirmative action in higher education, sociolinguistic theory, and criminal justice. He is the author of the ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Chicanos in Higher Education: Issues and Dilemmas for the 21st Century (1993).
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Postsecondary education institutions have been deliberately slow in recruiting minority persons and women into their faculty ranks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women earning doctoral degrees, biased reward system, faculty population, academic workplace, nonminority faculty, minority women faculty, white male faculty, faculty job satisfaction, faculty perceive, white faculty, faculty ranks, faculty fit, minority faculty members, organizational fit, institutional rewards, professional socialization, solo status, faculty values, affirmative action initiatives, black faculty, mentoring activities, academic culture, faculty experience, faculty women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Postsecondary education institutions have been deliberately slow in recruiting minority persons and women into their faculty ranks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women earning doctoral degrees, biased reward system, faculty population, academic workplace, nonminority faculty, minority women faculty, white male faculty, faculty job satisfaction, faculty perceive, white faculty, faculty ranks, faculty fit, minority faculty members, organizational fit, institutional rewards, professional socialization, solo status, faculty values, affirmative action initiatives, black faculty, mentoring activities, academic culture, faculty experience, faculty women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Indian, Percent Change, Higher Education Research Institute, The American College Teacher, United States, Men Women Total New!
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- Improving College Teaching by Lee in Back Matter
- Social Work by Armando T. Morales in Back Matter
- Organizational Behavior (5th Edition) by Richard M. Steers in Back Matter
- International Business by Les Dlabay in Back Matter
- Social Problems by Henry George in Back Matter
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- Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions by JoAnn Moody on page 19, and Back Matter
- Academic Departments: How they Work, How they Change by Barbara E. Walvoord in Back Matter
- The Changing Nature of the Academic Deanship: ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Research Report (J-B ASHE Higher Education Report Series (AEHE)) by Mimi Wolverton in Back Matter
- Ensuring Quality and Productivity in Higher Education: An Analysis of Assessment Practices, ASHE-ERIC/Higher Education Report Volume 29, No. 1, 2002 by Susan M. Gates in Back Matter
- Faculty Compensation Systems: Impact on the Quality of Higher Education: ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Research Report (J-B ASHE Higher Education Report Series (AEHE)) by Terry P. Sutton in Back Matter
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