This article aims to describe the implementation, evaluation, and outcomes associated with a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research fellow experience at an historically Black college and university (HBCU) funded by the National Science Foundation. This experience, Polymer Research, was part of a multipronged approach for…

Advising has been identified as a strategy that influences the retention and graduation of many underrepresented populations in higher education including, students of color and women. For Black women, multiple identities, including race and gender, intersect in ways that need acknowledgement during the socialization process. Given the growing…

Describes how Nigerian students were found to overwhelmingly prefer white collar occupations, despite the lack of such jobs in their country. Discusses the incompatibility between such career goals and the realities of developing countries and considers the implications of this incompatibility for designing vocational education programs. (GC)

Three hundred and eighty-six Negro students in a high school in Tuscaloosa, Ala., are reported as tested in this study in December, 1965. In September, 1966 it was found that 78 students had dropped out. Their test performances were compared with those of the 308 continuing students. (JM)

Examines the relationship between socioeconomic status and ethnic characteristics of the family and the female Kenyan student's perception of her career opportunities. Presents 1975 data collected from students in six secondary and higher educational institutions in Kenya. (Author/GC)

Summarizes the initial steps to identify those resources which support academic success among Black adolescents. (Author)

After defining developmental education as referring to processes that expand the physical, emotional, educational, artistic, scientific, and political spheres of diverse ethnic and cultural communities within a nation, the author discusses the case of the Loma people of Liberia. (JM)

Presents findings of study to determine statistical relationship between educational attainment and social class among Blacks based on sample of 1,054 individuals. Finds years of schooling did not correlate highly with self-identified social class, though work-related prestige and authority related significantly to educational attainment. (MW)

Attempts to expand the research in the area of occupational choice by developing and analyzing a causal model of the occupational aspiration process for black and white rural youth which relates socioeconomic status, academic performance and occupational aspirations. (Author/JM)

Found low intercorrelations among social involvement, academic achievement, and occupational aspiration in a national sample of Black undergraduates attending predominantly White, State-supported universities. Suggests that future research on Black student success should explore factors internal to the person, institutional characteristics, and…

Presents findings of a study which investigated factors that influence the major field choices of Black college students. Reports that the students are most influenced by sex and sex role socialization, childhood and career interests, and subsequent occupational expectations. Discusses data in relation to the underrepresentation of Blacks in…

One-hundred and four seventh and eighth grade students of State University College at Buffalo Campus School were administered the Self-Concept of Academic Ability Scale, the California Study Methods Survey, and two other attitude scales. (JM)

A pre-tested schedule was used in interviewing 187 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade working-class pupils from a West Coast community with a population of 95,000. The Sample included 6, Negroes, 74 Mexican Americans, and 45 Caucasians. (JM)

A description of the types and occupational status of the role models selected by black and white rural Texas youth as high school sophmores and again 2 years later. Racial and sex differences are reported and implications for future research discussed. (EH)