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ERIC Number: EJ588489
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
Women Chief Executives and Their Approaches towards Equity in American Universities.
Lindsay, Beverly
Comparative Education, v35 n2 p187-99 Jun 1999
Semistructured interviews with four African-American women serving as university president or provost examined their qualifications, past mentors, racial or gender factors affecting their position, career impediments, experiences with nonsupportive supervisors, reasons for scarcity of African-American women administrators, educational equity and the role of affirmative action, hiring practices, and second-chance opportunities for disadvantaged students. Contains 24 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Affirmative Action, Black Education, Black Employment, Blacks, College Presidents, Employment Practices, Equal Education, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education, Interviews, Minority Groups, Racial Discrimination, Sex Discrimination, Women Administrators
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: African Americans
Note: Theme issue (Special Number 21) with title: "Lifelong Learning and the Education of Mature Adults."