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Burton, Clare – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1991
Problems of personnel evaluation and gender bias are discussed as they relate to the current restructuring of Australian college and university salaries. Areas of evaluation seen as needing some improvement include the job analysis, standards for job equivalence, information gathering, writing of job descriptions, evaluation, and postevaluation…
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Change, Educational Change, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Northcraft, Gregory B. – 1983
Attribution theory suggests that the existence of affirmative action programs may lead individuals to assume that a female or minority affirmative action appointee was hired for reasons other than legitimate qualifications for the job. This inference of incompetence could pose a tremendous barrier to competent women or minority individuals being…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Attribution Theory, Bias, Competence
Moleke, Percy; Albertyn, Linda – 1999
This study examined first employment experiences of graduates from South African universities, highlighting educational and noneducational factors that affected their ability to secure employment in their fields of study, as well as graduates' perceptions of their studies in relation to their jobs. Researchers sent surveys to 8,000 graduates…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Blacks, Career Guidance
Bartlett, Bertrice; Barnes, Elizabeth – 1978
Analysis of the search for selecting a president and a dean for a small women's college in the midwest showed how affirmative action goals, coupled with standard career expectations, damage female candidates. Reasons for failure to select a woman for either post included: (1) the tendency to compare women with women and men with men in the early…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Affirmative Action
Maestas, Julia – 1981
Data on concentrations of Hispanic populations in the United States, Hispanic enrollments in two-year, four-year, and graduate programs, and Hispanic-related awards by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) by category of institution are presented. Included are: the distribution of the total Hispanic population of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, College Attendance, Degrees (Academic)
A Guide to Reasonable Accommodation for OT Practitioners with Disabilities: Fieldwork to Employment.
Wells, Shirley A., Comp.; Hanebrink, Sandy, Comp. – 1998
This handbook provides information to occupational therapy clinicians and students with disabilities, fieldwork educators, and employers on issues of accommodation, disclosure, rights, responsibilities, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It begins with a discussion of the disability rights movement, and employment and people with…
Descriptors: Adults, Civil Rights Legislation, Confidentiality, Disabilities
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1991
Section A of the Miscellaneous Studies section of the proceedings contains the following 17 papers: "Readability Reconsidered: A Study of Reader Reactions to Differences in Fog Indexes" (Katherine C. McAdams); "Country and Nostalgia: Space and Time in Magazine Journalism" (Allen W. Palmer); "Images and Descriptions: A…
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Freedom of Speech, Higher Education, Homosexuality
Tesfagiorgis, Gebre H. – 1991
This paper examines the use of statistical evidence, specifically regression analysis, in employment discrimination cases on college and university cases. Sections of the paper provide the following: (1) a description of regression analysis focusing on the specific features that make it appropriate for use in discrimination lawsuits; (2) a review…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Employees, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Van Alstyne, Carol; And Others – 1977
Employment patterns and salary levels of 18,035 college and university administrators were compared by sex and race. The national survey compared the status of women and minorities with those of white men in order to establish baselines for measuring progress toward achieving affirmative action goals and to raise questions about the causes of…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Employment Opportunities
Southeastern Massachusetts Univ., North Dartmouth. Div. of Continuing Studies and Special Programs. – 1978
Presented in this guide are summary descriptions of programs developed by several institutes to: (1) assist educators in examining their personal attitudes, biases, and behaviors vis-a-vis the changing roles of males and females; (2) encourage participants to take responsibility for the consequences of their behavior; (3) assist educators in…
Descriptors: Career Development, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Higher Education
Linnell, Robert H.; Bottomley, Wayne N. – 1975
A description of the University of Southern California (USC) faculty model and some of the results obtained from using the model are presented. The model traces faculty cohorts from 1974 to 1984, under given policies of hiring, tenure, promotion, and retirement. The model takes into account resignations, deaths, anticipated enrollments, and costs.…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Administrative Policy, Age, Cohort Analysis
Howard, Suzanne – 1978
A national survey was conducted by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in 1970 to assess the status of women on U.S. campuses and the extent of their participation at all levels of involvement as students, administrators, faculty, and trustees. The study, "Campus 1970, Where Do Women Stand?" involved over 450 colleges and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Affirmative Action, Career Opportunities, College Faculty
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1980
This paper presents the state of current Swedish educational reform policy by describing the current state of Swedish education in compulsory comprehensive school (grades 1-9) and in higher education. The volume begins with a chapter on the external social factors affecting education. This is followed by chapters offering a general description of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citizen Participation, Compulsory Education, Curriculum
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. – 1972
Columbia University's equal employment opportunity policy is reviewed in relation to officers of instruction and research, officers of administration and support staff, and procedures and programs. Part I reaffirms the policy, indicates dissemination of the policy and reviews the responsibility for implementation of the policy. The officers of…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Equal Protection, Higher Education
Comparison of Characteristics of U.S. Medical School Salaried Faculty in the Past Decade. 1968-1978.
Higgins, Elizabeth J. – 1979
This descriptive study prepared by the Association of American Medical Colleges displays current data on the available manpower resource of salaried faculty at U.S. medical schools for the academic year 1977-78. Comparison tables on selected characteristics are included for the academic year 1967-68, the first year for which data on medical school…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Graduate Medical Education
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