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Direct linkDelisle, Jason D., Ed.; Usher, Alex, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
"International Perspectives in Higher Education" offers a balanced perspective on how different countries approach key policies and what the United States can learn from those programs. Jason D. Delisle and Alex Usher have gathered a diverse group of experts to examine systems across the globe with a focus on the trade-offs between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Access to Education
Garmer, Amy Korzick, Ed. – 1998
This compilation addresses the issues surrounding the provision of more and better media content for minority needs. These papers suggest incentives in the emerging media marketplace that will encourage providing content responsive to minority needs and interests, and they explore the steps needed to get to these new practices. The centerpiece,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Audiences, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Lerner, Allan W., Ed.; King, B. Kay, Ed. – 1992
This book, containing seven chapters and an epilogue, describes how continuing education--as a structure and a function--can become a unique tool for reorienting major universities toward confronting new societal challenges. "The Coming Wave" (Lerner) discusses relevant organizational theory to explain the special role of continuing education in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Cooperation, Continuing Education, Cultural Differences
Download full textOrtiz, Alba A., Ed.; Ramirez, Bruce A., Ed. – 1988
The 14 papers were given at a 1986 Ethnic and Multicultural Symposia and are intended to provide state-of-the-art information on the education of culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional students. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Demography As It Affects Special Education" (James Yates); "A Prereferral Process for Preventing…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Black Students
Schoeny, Donna Hager, Ed.; Decker, Larry E., Ed. – 1983
This volume consists of edited versions of 17 papers and reaction papers that were commissioned to examine the community, educational, and social impact of community education. Various topics pertaining to the impact of community education are examined, including educational programs of students, school closings and shifting populations, the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Education, Coordination, Cost Effectiveness
Sandefur, Gary D., Ed.; Tienda, Marta, Ed. – 1988
A healthy economy is the best offense against poverty, but economic growth alone cannot close the wide gap between the poverty rates of minorities and whites. This collection examines the socioeconomic status of racial and ethnic minorities, their experiences with poverty, and the effects of federal social policies toward minority groups from 1787…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anthologies, Blacks, Cultural Differences
Ward, James Gordon, Ed.; Anthony, Patricia, Ed. – 1992
Issues of finance undergird all education policy decisions, and demographic changes have clear financial impact. This edited volume outlines demographic trends, focuses on minority and other special student populations in urban and rural settings, and relates the findings to policies. Contained in the book are the following papers: (1) "The Power…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Demography, Diversity (Student), Educational Finance
Clark, Lynne W., Ed.; Waltzman, Dava E., Ed. – 1993
This volume on strategies for meeting the challenges of cultural and linguistic diversity is designed to help faculty and administration in the professional education programs of the allied health professionals. The book's 11 chapters are divided among 3 main parts. The first section offers an introduction to the challenges before faculty and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, American Indians, Asian Americans
Wolfe, Leslie R., Ed. – 1991
This book of 13 papers resulted from a May, 1988, conference which examined the link between sex stereotyping in education and occupational inequities in the workplace. The book is organized in five parts. Papers in the first two parts assess the impact of sex and race stereotyping and discrimination on girls in school. Next the workplace issues,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Blacks, Career Development, Computer Literacy
Justiz, Manuel J., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book presents 19 papers on efforts to increase the participation of members of minority groups in higher education. The papers are: (1) "Demographic Trends and the Challenges to American Higher Education" (Manuel Justiz); (2) "Three Realities: Minority Life in the United States--The Struggle for Economic Equity (adapted by Don…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, American Indians
