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Denisa Gándara; Hadis Anahideh; Matthew P. Ison; Lorenzo Picchiarini – AERA Open, 2024
Colleges and universities are increasingly turning to algorithms that predict college-student success to inform various decisions, including those related to admissions, budgeting, and student-success interventions. Because predictive algorithms rely on historical data, they capture societal injustices, including racism. In this study, we examine…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Social Bias, Minority Groups, Equal Education
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Denisa Gándara; Hadis Anahideh; Matthew P. Ison; Lorenzo Picchiarini – Grantee Submission, 2024
Colleges and universities are increasingly turning to algorithms that predict college-student success to inform various decisions, including those related to admissions, budgeting, and student-success interventions. Because predictive algorithms rely on historical data, they capture societal injustices, including racism. In this study, we examine…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Social Bias, Minority Groups, Equal Education
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Jackson, Zachary A.; Harvey, I. Shevon; Sherman, Ledric D. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Data from the Healthy Mind Study were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression analyses to determine the role of discriminatory experience in students' confidence in their ability to persist through graduation, controlling for age, extracurricular activity participation, housing, years in their degree program, and their sense of belonging.…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Racism, Sense of Community, College Students
Kyle R. Siddoway – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Acts of targeted violence are of great concern to college administrators. Additionally, targeted violence motivated by bias (e.g., racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc.) is occurring at an increasing rate on campuses across the country. Previous research has identified potential pre-incident behaviors which may serve as indicators that an…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Behavior, School Violence, Aggression
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Yi, Jacqueline; Todd, Nathan R. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2022
The current study addresses a gap in the literature on how Asian American college students work toward social change in their campuses, as well as contributes to scholarship on differences in engagement in social change behaviors among Asian Americans, White Americans, and students from other racial minority backgrounds. We examined…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Behavior Change, Multiracial Persons, African American Students
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Sax, Linda J.; Newhouse, Kaitlin N. S.; Goode, Joanna; Nakajima, Tomoko M.; Skorodinsky, Max; Sendowski, Michelle – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
The Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (APCSP) course was introduced in 2016 to address long-standing gender and racial/ethnic disparities in the United States among students taking Advanced Placement Computer Science (APCS) in high school, as well as among those who pursued computing majors in college. Although APCSP has drawn a more…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Computer Science Education, Equal Education, High School Students
Brown, Everett-Teejay – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The need for mental health services for Latinx communities is growing due to shifting demographics in the United States and increased immigration from Latin America (Provencio Vasquez et al., 2011; Torres & Vallejo, 2015). Unfortunately, Latinx people in the U.S. face disparities in both access to and quality of mental health treatment (Davis…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Mental Health, Health Services, Males
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Ja’Nina Garrett-Walker; Sonja Martin Poole; Sienna L. Williams; Caleb J. Banks; Justine A. Stallings; Kristian R. Balgobin; Dylan P. Moore – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2018
An online survey examining racial color-blindness, privilege awareness, and social justice was administered to a sample of 381 college students (M[subscript age] = 20.53, SD = 4.35). Using multiple regression, increases in heterosexual and class privilege awareness predicted increases in student interest in social justice while increased levels of…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racism, Advantaged, Social Justice