Author: Barbara Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135579482
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book focuses upon approximately 250 nonprofit, two-year colleges with a student body that is entirely female or at least 25 percent black, Hispanic, or Native American. These special-focus colleges include two-year colleges, historically black colleges (HBC's), Hispanic-serving institutions (HIS's) and tribal colleges, with some of these schools being church-affiliated. Many of these schools serve as shining examples of how a genuine commitment to access and achievement for female students of color can enhance these students' academic success.
Two-Year Colleges for Women and Minorities
Author: Barbara Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135579482
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book focuses upon approximately 250 nonprofit, two-year colleges with a student body that is entirely female or at least 25 percent black, Hispanic, or Native American. These special-focus colleges include two-year colleges, historically black colleges (HBC's), Hispanic-serving institutions (HIS's) and tribal colleges, with some of these schools being church-affiliated. Many of these schools serve as shining examples of how a genuine commitment to access and achievement for female students of color can enhance these students' academic success.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135579482
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book focuses upon approximately 250 nonprofit, two-year colleges with a student body that is entirely female or at least 25 percent black, Hispanic, or Native American. These special-focus colleges include two-year colleges, historically black colleges (HBC's), Hispanic-serving institutions (HIS's) and tribal colleges, with some of these schools being church-affiliated. Many of these schools serve as shining examples of how a genuine commitment to access and achievement for female students of color can enhance these students' academic success.
Two-Year Colleges for Women and Minorities
Author: Barbara Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135579474
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Two-year colleges are often the most financially, geographically, and academically accessible means of higher education for ethnic minorities and women. This book examines five types of two-year special focus schools.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135579474
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Two-year colleges are often the most financially, geographically, and academically accessible means of higher education for ethnic minorities and women. This book examines five types of two-year special focus schools.
Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Author: Ronald J. Burke
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1847206875
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Scientific and technological advances and innovations are critical to the economic performance of developed countries and the standard of living of the citizens. This book discusses the nature and size of the problem and shows why increasing the number of women and minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics industries is vital.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1847206875
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Scientific and technological advances and innovations are critical to the economic performance of developed countries and the standard of living of the citizens. This book discusses the nature and size of the problem and shows why increasing the number of women and minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics industries is vital.
Resources in Education
Women's Under-Representation in the Engineering and Computing Professions: Fresh Perspectives on a Complex Problem
Author: Kathleen Buse
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889454932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Understanding the many complexities that define gender inequality has been described by researchers as a grand challenge. Novel insights, innovation, a broader community to conduct research and to ascertain effective interventions are essential in the challenge to create organizations that are gender equal. As such, this Research Topic in Frontiers in Psychology addresses the under-representation of women in engineering and computing as a complex, but solvable problem. This Research Topic seeks to inform the global community about advances in understanding the under-representation of women in engineering and computing with a focus on what enables change. Further, this Topic will promote fresh perspectives, innovative methodologies, and mixed method approaches important to accelerating the pace of change.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889454932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Understanding the many complexities that define gender inequality has been described by researchers as a grand challenge. Novel insights, innovation, a broader community to conduct research and to ascertain effective interventions are essential in the challenge to create organizations that are gender equal. As such, this Research Topic in Frontiers in Psychology addresses the under-representation of women in engineering and computing as a complex, but solvable problem. This Research Topic seeks to inform the global community about advances in understanding the under-representation of women in engineering and computing with a focus on what enables change. Further, this Topic will promote fresh perspectives, innovative methodologies, and mixed method approaches important to accelerating the pace of change.
Gender and Education
Author: Barbara J. Bank
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313041962
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
In this two volume set, educators explore the intersection of gender and education. Their entries deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across historical and cultural contexts. The various contributors discuss gender as a social construction. The latest research on boys and masculinities, as well as girls and feminism, is included. The entries in this work cover the breadth of topics related to gender and education. They provide reference information on the history and condition of gender and education from elementary to high school. Entries cover such topics as: alternative schools, historically black colleges and universities in the United States, military colleges and academies, private and public single-sex and co-educational schools, literacy, mathematics achievement, women's centers, teacher interactions with girls and boys, affirmative action in U.S. higher education, sororities and fraternities, educator sexual misconduct, expectations of teachers for boys and girls, heterosexism and homophobia, bullying, harassment, and violence among students, salaries of male and female educators, school choice and gender equity, disabled students and gender equity, Title IX and school sports, black feminism, womanism, and queer theory.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313041962
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
In this two volume set, educators explore the intersection of gender and education. Their entries deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across historical and cultural contexts. The various contributors discuss gender as a social construction. The latest research on boys and masculinities, as well as girls and feminism, is included. The entries in this work cover the breadth of topics related to gender and education. They provide reference information on the history and condition of gender and education from elementary to high school. Entries cover such topics as: alternative schools, historically black colleges and universities in the United States, military colleges and academies, private and public single-sex and co-educational schools, literacy, mathematics achievement, women's centers, teacher interactions with girls and boys, affirmative action in U.S. higher education, sororities and fraternities, educator sexual misconduct, expectations of teachers for boys and girls, heterosexism and homophobia, bullying, harassment, and violence among students, salaries of male and female educators, school choice and gender equity, disabled students and gender equity, Title IX and school sports, black feminism, womanism, and queer theory.
Science and Technology Education at Community Colleges
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Gender and Higher Education
Author: Barbara J. Bank
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801897823
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Encyclopedic review about gender and its impact on American higher education across historical and cultural contexts. The contributors describe the ways in which gender is embedded in the educational practices, curriculum, institutional structures and governance of colleges and universities. Topics included are: institutional diversity; academic majors and programs; extracurricular organizations such as sororities, fraternities and women's centers; affirmative action and other higher educational policies; and theories that have been used to analyze and explain the ways in which gender in academe is constructed.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801897823
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Encyclopedic review about gender and its impact on American higher education across historical and cultural contexts. The contributors describe the ways in which gender is embedded in the educational practices, curriculum, institutional structures and governance of colleges and universities. Topics included are: institutional diversity; academic majors and programs; extracurricular organizations such as sororities, fraternities and women's centers; affirmative action and other higher educational policies; and theories that have been used to analyze and explain the ways in which gender in academe is constructed.
Women, Minorities, and the Disabled in Science and Technology
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minorities in engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minorities in engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description