The Ukrainian Museum Archives (UMA), an amalgam of museums archive, and library, in Cleveland, Ohio, is a unique ethnic institution constituting a collection of both primary and secondary sources amassed over a period of more than 40 years, including documents, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and a variety of artifacts on…

An ethnic education program involving the study of black Americans, Irish Americans, and French Americans was developed. It involved three experimental classes and one control class in the middle grades. The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the following: (1) whether widely used amounts of ethnic education materials do, in fact, help…

This study focuses on the possible relationship between an ethnic studies instruction course based on affective and cognitive knowledge structures and ethnic attitudes of community college students enrolled in the course. Three hypotheses, in null form, were tested: (1) there is no significant difference in the racial attitudes and concepts of…

This study was designed to assess the effectiveness of community college Chicano Studies courses in raising the self-concept of Chicano students. It was conducted during an 18-week semester at an established community college in an urban area of California. Minority students constituted 45 percent of the college's total enrollment. The study…

This study was undertaken to determine the extent to which college and university English departments are preparing their majors to teach black literature. Chapter 1 asserts that since English teachers receive their basic content courses from English departments, it is these departments that have the fundamental responsibilities to include black…

The purpose of this research was to discover which components of minority recruitment efforts are practiced by schools of information and library science, and to find out whether students have felt the impact of these efforts. This study also aims to discover whether the reasons for attending a particular school differ between minority and white…

This program was developed and implemented to correct noncompliance with Florida Education Legislation 233.061, to increase knowledge of basic facts surrounding the Holocaust and to increase positive tolerance attitudes of diversity. The objectives for the program were to increase the instruction of the Holocaust by 75%; increase the student's…

This study describes the kindergarten to level 3 curriculum of a bilingual-bicultural education program at Nestor Elementary School in Imperial Beach, California, under E.S.E.A. Title VII. It discusses the specific program environment and classroom organization used to implement the curriculum. The curriculum is divided into four main strands:…