scholarly journals Coordinated Admissions Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (5) ◽  
pp. 343-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney J. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Public University ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
The University

In the wake of challenges to affirmative action, access to oversubscribed elite public universities remains a contentious issue. Much of the research on these issues focuses on freshman admissions. This paper examines the University of Texas at Austin's Coordinated Admissions Program which offers Texas residents that were not admitted to the University of Texas at Austin as freshman the option of transferring from a participating University of Texas System school. Using the regression discontinuity design, I show that this path to an elite public university has an impact on academic outcomes.

scholarly journals A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of a Remedial Education Programme

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Abraham S. Ross ◽  
Beth Lacey
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Remedial Education ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
Remedial Students ◽  
Course Grades ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

To demonstrate the usefulness of programme evaluation within the university a regression discontinuity design was used to assess the impact of a remedial education programme. Using multiple regression and analysis ofcovariance, credit course grades of students who had been enrolled in the remedial programmes were compared to the credit course grades of non-remedial students. The results indicated that the remedial programmes were not improving performance above what would have been expected based on high school marks.

scholarly journals MAIS UMA DICOTOMIA GEOGRÁFICA: ENTRE BACHARELADO E LICENCIATURA... UMA FALSA QUESTÃO? / Another Geographical Dichotomy: Between Bachelor Degree and Licenciate Degree... A False Issue?

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Sinthia Cristina Batista
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Bachelor Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Intervention

O presente artigo objetiva enunciar os atuais processos de reestruturação da Universidade Brasileira e seus desdobramentos no desenvolvimento da formação do Geógrafo no Brasil. A partir de uma questão concreta, a cisão no processo de formação do Geógrafo de suas habilitações profissionais – a Licenciatura e o Bacharelado em diferentes Universidades Públicas no país, pretende-se levantar questões à comunidade geográfica que reforcem a necessidade de discutir e posicionar-se mediante seu processo de formação e atuação profissional frente à acepção que constitui a Universidade no Brasil.Palavras-Chave: Formação do Geógrafo; Reformas educacionais; Universidade Pública ABSTRACTThis article aims to outline the current restructuring of the Brazilian University and its consequences in the development of training Geographer in Brazil. From a factual matter, the split in the Geographer of the training process of their professional qualifications - the Degree and Bachelor of different public universities in the country, is intended to raise questions to the geographical community that reinforce the need to discuss and position yourself through the process of training and professional intervention to face a meaning which is the University in Brazil.Key-Words: Geographer training; Educational reform; Public University

Affirmative Action for the Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Sterba
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Affirmative Action Program ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Action Program ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

Diversity instead of race-based affirmative action developed in the United States from the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke decision in 1978 to the present. There have been both objections to this form of affirmative action and defenses of it. Fisher v. University of Texas could decide the future of all race-based affirmative action in the United States. Yet however the Fisher case is decided, there is a form of non-race-based affirmative action that all could find to be morally preferable for the future. A diversity affirmative action program could be designed to look for students who either have experienced racial discrimination themselves or who understand well, in some other way, how racism harms people in the United States, and thus are able to authoritatively and effectively speak about it in an educational context.

scholarly journals Hybrid Experiments in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 540-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lee Kleinman ◽  
Noah Weeth Feinstein ◽  
Greg Downey ◽  
Sigrid Peterson ◽  
Chisato Fukada
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Business Logic ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Traditional Norms

In response to the many pressures facing public higher education, public universities are experimenting with business-oriented practices that seem likely to alter their nature and purposes. In this paper, we examine several hybrid experiments—new organizational strategies intended deliberately, sometimes explicitly, to hybridize the traditional norms and practices associated with academia and business at one emblematic public university. These cases illustrate how each hybrid experiment is a tacit response to existing norms and strategies that govern the university–business boundary, initiated as a hedge against the challenging fiscal and political climate. Taken together, they do not lead to a unitary and/or linear spread of business codes and practices. Instead, what some have referred to as “business logic” appears multifaceted, having many elements that are deployed, institutionalized, and perceived differently in different contexts, even within a single university.

From Discrimination to Affirmative Action

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas A. Powe
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Action Program ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Undergraduate Admissions ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Supreme Court Case ◽  
The University

This chapter discusses the legal battles involving the University of Texas School of Law and its affirmative action program. In the wake of its success in 1944 in the all-white primary case, Smith v. Allwright, the Texas NAACP called for the integration of Texas's flagship university in Austin. Some months later Thurgood Marshall wrote a letter to Austin's only African American lawyer asking for information about how to apply to the UT School of Law. The chapter examines the Supreme Court case of Heman Marion Sweatt that produced a major stepping-stone toward Brown v. Board of Education, along with another case involving UT's undergraduate admissions that reaffirmed a state's right to implement affirmative action policies. In particular, it analyzes McLaurin v. Regents and Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, along with the Texas legislature's response to Hopwood v. Texas in the form of the “10% rule.”

Case Study 2: The Fisher Supreme Court Cases against the University of Texas at Austin

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-188
Author(s):  
J. Scott Carter ◽  
Cameron D. Lippard
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Color Blind ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

This chapter looks at the most recent case to challenge affirmative action in college admissions policies in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin (2013 and 2016). Like chapter 5, the purpose of this chapter is to understand precisely what supporters and opponents are saying about the controversial policy. That is, how are they framing the debate surrounding affirmative action. However, this chapter looks at how framing may have changed over a decade later. We again focus on amicus briefs submitted by social authorities to the U.S. Supreme Court who had interests in the outcome of the cases. While we were interested in variation in types of frames used in these two cases (Fisher I and II) relative to the Gratz and Grutter cases, we mainly focused on authors continued use of both color-blind and group threat frames to state their positions. While some nuanced changes were observed from Gratz/Grutter to Fisher, our findings revealed a great deal of consistency from case to case and that the briefs continued to rely on color-blind and threat frames to characterize the policy. Particularly among opponents’ briefs, threat frames suggested that whites, in general, were losing in a country consumed by liberal agendas of diversification and entitlements only afforded to unqualified and ill-prepared non-whites.

scholarly journals Participatory Strategic Planning in a Public University

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-148
Author(s):  
Isabela Papalardo ◽  
Maria Tereza Tomé de Godoy ◽  
Vinícius Sobreira Braga
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Planning Methodology ◽  
Made In

The experiences of participatory strategic planning are still restricted in the public sector. There are few studies about it concerning public universities. Onward this belief, came the idea of creating a participatory strategic planning methodology appropriate for a Public University. The objective is to show how it was developed and implemented across the University. Initially was defined some concepts required to understand the methodology, and then presented how the method was developed and applied. Also shows the adjustments made in order to the make planning proper to a public university context

scholarly journals Strengthening Higher Education Space in Africa through North-South Partnerships and Links: Myths and Realities from Tanzania Public Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnson Ishengoma
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Public University ◽  
The North ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Capacity Building ◽  
Shed Light

Governments' cuts in research and development funding for public universities in Tanzania has compelled these institutions to establish and develop extensive partnerships and links with universities, and research centers in the North. The establishment of the North-South partnerships has also coincided with the dominance of external and heavy dependence on external donors for funding of research and development activities in the majority of Tanzania public universities. This article, using the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), public university, seeks to shed light on whether or not partnerships make any significant contribution to the institution’s capacity building. The thesis of this paper is that although N-S partnerships are instrumental in institutional capacity building; they have not significantly contributed to the strengthening of higher education space at UDSM and apparently at other public universities in Tanzania because of inherent structural imbalances and inequalities embedded in the partnerships. .

FUNDRAISING AS A SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR PUBLIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN KENYA

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-148
Author(s):  
Festus Kipkorir Ngetich ◽  
Daniel C. Rotich ◽  
Japheth Otike
Keyword(s):  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

The aim of this paper is to examine fundraising as a viable supplementary source of funding for public university libraries in Kenya. Ideally, university libraries require sufficient funding in order to effectively play their role which is to support teaching, learning and research activities in the university. However inadequate allocation of funding to public university libraries in Kenya over the years has negatively affected the quality of their services. Therefore there is an urgent need for these libraries to consider fundraising as a source of funding. Using a sample comprising of 84 Librarians and 18 informants from seven public universities in Kenya, this paper established that fundraising, if well planned and coordinated, is a viable supplementary source of funding for public university libraries in Kenya. 

scholarly journals Vozes ameríndias na universidade pública inclusiva / Amerindian voices in inclusive public university

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Daniela Bueno de Oliveira Américo de Godoy ◽  
José Francisco Miguel Henriques Bairrão
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Public University ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Western Education ◽  
The University

A lei de cotas é um marco rumo à universidade pública inclusiva. Todavia, seu modelo pode não contemplar especificidades culturais. O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar vozes indígenas sobre o assunto. Visa-se dar ouvidos às comunidades e lideranças indígenas no acompanhamento dessa política. Utilizou-se uma abordagem qualitativa, própria à etnopsicologia, que consistiu em explicitar comparações implícitas entre as culturas ameríndias e a ocidental. Analisaram-se as falas de palestrantes indígenas nas três edições do Encontro Nacional dos Estudantes Indígenas (ENEI). Os resultados mostram que acessar o ensino superior é uma estratégia política e que o território é o principal articulador conceitual. A universidade é vivida de modo peculiar, sem necessariamente corresponder aos moldes da formação ocidental. Os contrastes epistemológicos, pedagógicos e ontológicos por eles evidenciados sustentam propostas em direção à intercientificidade e à interculturalidade (CAPES).Palavras-chave: indígenas, políticas de ações afirmativas, ensino superior, etnopsicologia. ABSTRACT: The Quota Law is a milestone towards inclusive public university. However, this model may not contemplate cultural specificities. This paper aims to present Amerindian voices about this subject by listening to communities and indigenous leaders in monitoring this policy. We used a qualitative approach specific to Ethnopsychology methodology which consists of explicit implicit comparisons between the Amerindian cultures and Western cultures. The speeches of indigenous speakers in the three editions of the National Indigenous Students Meeting were analyzed. The results show that the access to higher education is a political strategy and that the territory is the main conceptual articulator. The university is experienced in a special way, without necessarily matching to the mold of Western education. The epistemological, pedagogical and ontological contrasts highlighted by them support proposals towards interscientism and interculturalism.Keywords: Indigenous people, affirmative action, higher education, ethnopsychology.

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