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Factors Influencing College Choice Of Minority Students And Their Implications For Recruitment, Linda Blount Mccluney
Factors Influencing College Choice Of Minority Students And Their Implications For Recruitment, Linda Blount Mccluney
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
This study was designed to determine factors of college choice and to evaluate their implications for the development of recruiting guidelines for minority students. The intent was to survey two hundred freshmen of two urban universities to determine which factors were influential in their college choice process and to design recruiting guidelines. The use of these guidelines may provide the impetus to direct more blacks to predominantly white urban universities and more whites to predominantly black universities.
The criterion group approach allowed for the two groups (black students attending a predominantly white university versus black students attending a predominantly black …