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The Faculty Of The Sixties: A Reappraisal, Monroe H. Little
The Faculty Of The Sixties: A Reappraisal, Monroe H. Little
Trotter Review
Between 1967 and 1969 the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education initiated and substantially funded several national surveys of U.S. higher education. One such study of faculty employed a questionnaire that was mailed to approximately 100,000 full-time college and university faculty at 303 schools nationwide. The results of this survey, which solicited more than 300 items of information from each respondent and enjoyed an unusually high response rate of over 60%, contain a wealth of data on a variety of political and social issues that has rarely been subjected to careful analysis by scholars.
This is especially unfortunate in retrospect. The …
Reaching Tomorrow's Hispanic Leaders, Sister Thérèse Higgins
Reaching Tomorrow's Hispanic Leaders, Sister Thérèse Higgins
New England Journal of Public Policy
High school-age Hispanics have a 50 percent drop-out rate. College-age Hispanic youth account for only 3.9 percent of the United States college population. A report of the Commission on Minority Participation in Education and American Life challenged college planners to do something about the neglect of young minority students. However, Regis College had already developed a four-week residential summer program to enable Hispanic ninth-graders to complete high school and prepare for college. The anticipated outcome of this College Awareness Program is that the dream of higher education and empowerment for two hundred gifted young Hispanics will be realized.