Key Benefits: Faculty of Color in Academe focuses on inequities based on racial and ethnic differences within the professional workplace in higher education. This book draws on a comprehensive study of African American, Asian, Pacific American, American Indian, and Latino faculty in eight mid-western states. By using both narrative and statistical data, this book provides an in-depth view of the issues surrounding the successful recruitment, retention, and development of faculty of color. Key Topics: The authors attempt to capture and describe some of the similarities and differences experienced by faculty among each of the above mentioned racial/ethnic groups. Includes a comprehensive discussion of what needs to be done in order to achieve diversity in the teaching profession. Market: Scholars, practitioners, and decision-makers will benefit from the information provided in this book.

Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success

Education & Teaching

Myers, Samuel L.

Turner, Caroline Sotello Viernes

Higher & Continuing Education

Pearson/Education

Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality

There are wide racial disparities in virtually every sphere of economic life. African American workers earn less than whites. They are more likely to be denied loans than whites. Minority-owned businesses are less likely to win lucrative bids on state and federal contracts than are white male owned businesses. Black children are more likely than whites to be reported to child protective services for neglect or abuse. There are even huge disparities in downing rates between blacks and whites. What to do about these disparities? There is a fundamental disagreement about the appropriate remedies to these varied indicators of racial inequality. Part of the disagreement stems from differences in public perceptions about the underlying causes of the inequality. But, another form of disagreement relates to the opposition to the remedy of choice during much of the 1970s and 1980s: Affirmative Action. Race conscious remedies -- like affirmative action policies in hiring, college admissions, and business contracting -- suffer from legal and constitutional challenges, compounded by hostility from the majority of Americans. The alternative – race-neutral remedies – attempt to address racial disparities without directly targeting benefits exclusively to racial minority group members. In doing so, race-neutral remedies putatively help minorities without hurting majority group members. The authors of Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality make the case that policy analysts should shift from a focus on whether a remedy is race-conscious or not to a focus on the underlying problem that the alternative remedies is attempting to resolve. This type of rethinking of the problem of racial inequality will reveal that sometimes race-neutral remedies hold great promise in reducing disparities. Often, however, race-neutral remedies fail to do what they are intended to do. The authors challenge the reader to think about why race-neutral remedies—while desireable on their face—might fail to resolve protracted and persistent patterns of racial inequality in market and non-market contexts.

Business & Money

Ha, Inhyuck

Economics

Lexington Books

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Black Underclass, The (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)

Politics & Social Sciences

Darity, William A.

Social Sciences

Garland Science

Desegregation in Higher Education

The four essays contained in this volume examine the status of desegregation in today's colleges and universities. Dr. Samuel L. Myers, Sr., discusses the renewed focus on improving access, retention and graduation of minorities in colleges and universities. Dr. Julia Wells discusses individual and institutional racism, noting institutional racism is more pervasive in that 'institutional racism is harmful not only to blacks who are targets, but also erodes the core of idealism and progress in American society.' Dr. Paul Fairley examines the desegregation activities at Maryland's historically black public institutions for undergraduate higher education. Dr. Louise M. Tomlinson presents the findings from a survey questionnaire, distributed to the six key administrators at each of the 34 major institutions in the University System of Georgia Higher Education. The survey was designed to examine the administrators' responses to the issues of recruiting and retaining black American faculty. Co-published with the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

Schools & Teaching

University Press of America

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