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Mediation and Minority Members of Academe
Sociological Practice, 2000Focus groups are used to gather information from minorities in a university setting. Minority members of three campus groups (students, staff, and faculty) identified issues that could lead to relational conflicts. Alternative methods of dispute resolution are discussed in terms of their suitability and viability for use by minorities in academe ...
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Academic performance of ethnic minorities in medical school
BMJ, 2008May be adversely affected by negative stereotyping Increasing the number of doctors in the workforce who come from minority groups has been proposed as a way to tackle the health disparities of minority populations. Several themes have arisen regarding the education of such doctors, including low numbers of students from ethnic minorities applying for
Phyllis L. Carr, Jonathon Woodson
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Analytical Models for Minority Representation in Academic Departments
Research in Higher Education, 2000We present mathematical models for the evolution over time of the proportion of minorities in an academic department or similarly selected group of constant size. Using the models, we analyze both the steady-state and time-dependent behavior of the proportion of minorities, and also obtain a means of evaluating the effectiveness of a department's ...
Kurt N. Johnson, J. D. Wiley
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The status of women and minorities in academic computer science
Communications of the ACM, 1976The results of a survey concerning women and minority students and faculty in computer science during the years 1971 to 1975 are presented. Analysis of the data indicated that effective affirmative action programs for recruitment into graduate degree programs are needed to enlarge the number of women and minorities qualified for later employment in ...
Sandra A. Mamrak, Richard G. Montanelli
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The Efficacy of Academic Acceleration for Gifted Minority Students
Gifted Child Quarterly, 2010This study supported the use of acceleration for gifted minority students in math. The gifted minority students in this study viewed taking accelerated math courses as exciting and beneficial for preparation for high school and college and particularly liked the challenges they encountered while taking advanced classes.
Seon-Young Lee +2 more
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Attributions to Sexual Minority Women’s Academic Success
Journal of Homosexuality, 2014Narratives from 33 sexual minority women were examined to discover what factors contributed to their ability to acquire academic success, and what, if any, attributions are evident in some sexual minority women's experiences that provide the ability to persist and graduate.
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CM: A STRATEGY FOR RETAINING MINORITY AND ACADEMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS
Nurse Educator, 1990A computer assisted instruction (CAI) program was implemented as a teaching-learning strategy to retain students with academic deficiencies and increase their chances of being successful. The CAI programs were based on curriculum, course, and specific unit objectives.
JoAnn Blake, Mary Lott, Jennifer Goodman
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Ethnic minority women in the Serbian academic community
European Journal of Women's Studies, 2020The aim of this article is to discuss the position of ethnic minority women (Hungarian, Slovak, and Romanian) in relation to their career-building in the Serbian higher education system and reaching decision-making positions (such as rector, vice-rector, dean, head of department, etc.).
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The Role of Minority Academic Health Centers
1989We recognize now that cancer in minorities is a problem of crisis proportions that merits urgent concern and action. I shall focus on the role of minority medical schools or academic health centers in responding to this reality.
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Pioneering Efforts for Minority Appointments and Academic Surgery
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1999The author gives a narrative chronologic explanation for the early inclusion of African Americans and other minorities into the Yale University Orthopaedic Surgical Residency Training Program. The author's early isolation from racial problems living in rural Nebraska and the paucity of racial friction at the University of Nebraska gave him a more ...
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