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How Majority Institutions Recruit and Retain Minority Students
CEEHD Leadership InstituteJune 13, 2013
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The Issue
Capacity
Minoritized
Signifies the social construction of underrepresentation and subordination. Persons are not born into minority status nor are they minoritized
in every social milieu(e.g., in their families and places of religious worship). Instead, they are rendered minorities in particular situations and
institutional environments that maintain an overrepresentation of one racial group and its
dominant cultural norms. Dr. Shaun Harper
Mirror, Mirror on the wall…
Sighs Too Deep For Words
Reliance on standardized tests
Deficit thinking
Fear based decision making
Paucity of diversity in leadership
Belief that treating everyone the same is treating everyone fairly!
Admissions Limited spaces Faculty shortage Clinical site shortage Not a lack of “qualified” applicants Need to admit the best qualified Student retention…who will persist and be
successful on NCLEX Students who benefit the profession
Distributive Justice
To each equally
To each according to need
To each according to merit
To each according to the person’s rights
To each according to individual effort
To each as you would be done by
To each according to the greatest good to the greatest number.
“Bottom Line:
Art and Science
Social……………………..Demographics Technology……………....Tools Economic…………………Markets Environment……………...Resources Politics…………………….Issues
STEEP ANALYSIS…
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If you touch a spider’s web anywhere, you set the whole thing trembling. As we move through and around this world, and as we act with kindness, or indifference, or even hostility toward the people we meet, we too, are setting the great spider web a-tremble. The life I touch will touch another life, and that, in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place and time my touch will be felt. You can’t find a better way to quantify or qualify someone’s legacy. Just think of the web you have set a-tremble”.
Frederick Buechner
Recruitment
Student exposure to successful academicians and practitioners from similar backgrounds
Providing demographic data of faculty and students
Student testimony on websites Challenging the use of GRE Involvement of family in orientation MONEY
Recruitment
Graduation rates Graduation on time information Picture of what their graduates are doing Percentage of transfer credits accepted Ease to double major & popular
combinations of majors Financial strength of institution provided
Admissions
Composition…relatively homogeneous, narrowly focused app, lack of appropriate pre-advisement for URMWhat drives admissions ( one group reads essays only, other looks at grades only)Failure to look at humanism in the process (count the # of “I”s in an essay)
Diversity in the Classroom
A bad start Insufficient financial support Language & writing issues Admissions barriers The burden of representation Unwelcoming environments Exclusion from informal networks
Diversity in the Classroom
Paucity of role models Poor faculty/student connections Hazing mentality of faculty Curriculum and classroom interaction
often exclude issues of diversity or treat the subject as knowledge about a sub-culture or deviant non-norm behavior.
Fitting In vs. Belonging
Dynamics of Diversity in Teaching
Teacher SelfAwareness
Pedagogy
CourseContent
StudentDiversity
Diversity and LearningDiversity and Learning
Marchesani, L., & Adams, M. (1992). Dynamics of diversity in the teaching-learning process: A faculty development model for analysis and action. In M. Adams (Ed.), Promoting diversity in the college classroom: Innovative responses for the curriculum, faculty, and institutions (Vol. 52, ). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Retention
Affinity Groups
Rubrics
Multiple forms of assessment
Linguistic Modification
Retention
Individual development plans
Cross racial mentoring
Focusing on science’s relevance to problems within specific communities
MANAGE PERCEPTIONMANAGE PROCESSES & SYSTEMSPARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CHANGE…GET USE TO IT!
Conclusion
QUESTIONS?