Title Increasing faculty diversity : the occupational choices of high-achieving minority students / Stephen Cole, Elinor Barber with Melissa Bolyard and Annulla Linders

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) : illustrations Contents The Problem -- Obtaining the Data -- Ethnic Differences in Occupational Choices -- Influences on Initial Occupational Choice -- The Influence of Academic Performance -- Attitudes toward Academia -- Role Models, Interaction with Faculty, and Career Aspirations / Melissa Bolyard -- The Influence of School Characteristics -- The Pipeline into Academia / Elizabeth Arias -- Policy Recommendations Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-358) and indexes Notes 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Faculty integration -- United States. Minority college teachers -- United States Minority college graduates -- Employment -- United States Vocational interests -- United States EDUCATION -- Higher. Faculty integration Minority college graduates -- Employment Minority college teachers Vocational interests Ethnische Gruppe Integration Hochschule Ensino superior -- Estados unidos. Minorias étnicas (educação) -- Estados unidos. United States USA Form Electronic book Author Barber, Elinor G. LC no. 2002027331 ISBN 9780674029699 0674029690

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