scholarly journals The Road to Private Prison Divestment

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-103
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Black Student ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Private Prisons ◽  
University System ◽  
The Road ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
Private Prison ◽  
The University ◽  
Prison Abolition

Until December 2015, the University of California maintained $25 million of indirect investments in three major private prison corporations and almost no one knew. The UC is now the first U.S. public university system to sell its shares in private prisons, however it was activism that propelled the victory. Black students from the Afrikan Black Coalition, a statewide Black youth organization, used research from Enlace and strategic planning to demand private prison divestment. This personal reflection on the path toward prison abolition examines some of the strengths and resurgence of Black student organizing in the era of #BlackLivesMatter.

scholarly journals Factors related with the university degree selection in Spanish public university system. An structural equation model analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Guàrdia Olmos ◽  
Maribel Peró Cebollero ◽  
Antonio Hervás Jorge ◽  
Roberto Capilla Lladró ◽  
Pedro Pablo Soriano Jiménez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Public University ◽  
Model Analysis ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
University System ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University

On the Road to 105

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Samuel Walker ◽  
Randy Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Road ◽  
College Basketball ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The University ◽  
College Team

At the beginning of the 1973-1974 college basketball season the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was the dominant program in the nation. Coached by the legendary John Wooden they had won seven consecutive NCAA championships, and nine of the previous ten titles. There had never been another college team to rival their dominance. And led by Bill Walton, it looked like the 1973-1974 season would end with another championship.

The Portuguese Public University System: On the Road to Improvement?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Teixeira ◽  
Margarida F. Cardoso ◽  
Cláudia S. Sarrico ◽  
Maria João Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
University System ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

California

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Penrose
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Family Background ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sacramento Valley ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The University

This chapter discusses Edith Penrose’s childhood and family background in California and early life in road camps on Highway One along the Pacific coast with her family, including two younger brothers. Her father George Tilton was the surveyor of the road. Edith was a student activist at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was the forensics commissioner, excelled at debating, and spoke at a peace rally. She married at the age of 19 to her first husband David Denhardt, a lawyer, who, after graduating, practised law in Colusa in the Sacramento Valley. She studied under Ernest Francis Penrose, an English economics professor, and became his assistant. She graduated in 1936 but spent a further semester as Penrose’s research assistant before joining her husband. The chapter is set against the Great Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe.

scholarly journals Affirmative action, critical mass, and a predictive model of undergraduate student body demographics

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0250266
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Maes ◽  
Julia Tucher ◽  
Chad M. Topaz
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

Black and Latinx students are underrepresented on most public university campuses. At the same time, affirmative action policies are controversial and legally fraught. The Supreme Court has ruled that affirmative action should help a minoritized group achieve a critical mass of representation. While the idea of critical mass is frequently invoked in law and in policy, the term remains ill-defined and hence difficult to operationalize. Motivated by these challenges, we build a mathematical model to forecast undergraduate student body racial/ethnic demographics on public university campuses. Our model takes the form of a Markov chain that tracks students through application, admission, matriculation, retention, and graduation. Using publicly available data, we calibrate our model for two different campuses within the University of California system, test it for accuracy, and make a 10-year prediction. We also propose a coarse definition of critical mass and use our model to assess progress towards it at the University of California-Berkeley. If no policy changes are made over the next decade, we predict that the Latinx population on campus will move towards critical mass but not achieve it, and that the Black student population will decrease, moving further below critical mass. Because affirmative action is banned in California and in nine other states, it is worthwhile to consider alternative policies for diversifying a campus, including targeted recruitment and retention efforts. Our modeling framework provides a setting in which to test the efficacy of affirmative action and of these alternative policies.

scholarly journals Affirmative action, critical mass, and a predictive model of undergraduate student body demographics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Maes ◽  
Julia Tucher ◽  
Chad M. Topaz
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

Black and Latinx students are underrepresented on most public university campuses. At the same time, affirmative action policies are controversial and legally fraught. The Supreme Court has ruled that affirmative action should help a minoritized group achieve a critical mass of representation. While the idea of critical mass is frequently invoked in law and in policy, the term remains ill-defined and hence difficult to operationalize. Motivated by these challenges, we build a mathematical model to forecast undergraduate student body racial/ethnic demographics on public university campuses. Our model takes the form of a Markov chain that tracks students through application, admission, matriculation, retention, and graduation. Using publicly available data, we calibrate our model for two different campuses within the University of California system, test it for accuracy, and make a 10-year prediction. We also propose a definition of critical mass and use our model to assess progress towards it at the University of California-Berkeley. If no policy changes are made over the next decade, we predict that the Latinx population on campus will move towards critical mass but not achieve it, and that the Black student population will decrease, moving further below critical mass. Because affirmative action is banned in California and in nine other states, it is worthwhile to consider alternative policies for diversifying a campus, including targeted recruitment and retention efforts. Our modeling framework provides a setting in which to test the efficacy of affirmative action and of these alternative policies.

Doctoral Training of Psychology Students in France

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Roland-Lévy
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
University System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychology Doctoral ◽  
Phd Programs ◽  
Phd Program

Abstract: The aim of doctoral programs in psychology is to help students become competent psychologists, capable of conducting research and of finding suitable employment. Starting with a brief description of the basic organization of the French university system, this paper presents an overview of how the psychology doctoral training is organized in France. Since October 2000, the requisites and the training of PhD students are the same in all French universities, but what now differs is the openness to other disciplines according to the size and location of the university. Three main groups of doctoral programs are distinguished in this paper. The first group refers to small universities in which the Doctoral Schools are constructed around multidisciplinary seminars that combine various themes, sometimes rather distant from psychology. The second group covers larger universities, with a PhD program that includes psychology as well as other social sciences. The third group contains a few major universities that have doctoral programs that are clearly centered on psychology (clinical, social, and/or cognitive psychology). These descriptions are followed by comments on how PhD programs are presently structured and organized. In the third section, I suggest some concrete ways of improving this doctoral training in order to give French psychologists a more European dimension.

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