The Powerful Economic Payoff When Blacks Graduate From Elite Colleges and Universities

1995 ◽  
pp. 25
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Elite Colleges

Profiles of Latino Adaptation at Elite Colleges and Universities

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Rivas-Drake ◽  
Margarita Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Elite Colleges

‘WE DON’T ALL LOOK ALIKE’

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Carson Byrd ◽  
Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel ◽  
Parker R. Sexton
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Academic Preparation ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Elite Colleges

AbstractThe examination of student group performance is a constant need as American higher education continues to expand and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Recent scholarship on the academic performance of Black students at elite colleges and universities has glossed over possible disparities among these students, particularly among different immigrant groups. The current study clarifies these differences in academic performance by examining four Black student groups at elite colleges and universities in the United States: native Blacks, Black immigrants from Africa, Black immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin America, and Black immigrants from other parts of the globe. The analyses point to many similarities and differences among the four Black student groups in their characteristics and influences on their academic performance in college such as gender, precollege friendships, high school academic preparation, college major, and closeness to Whites and Blacks. Additionally, this study found evidence of possible colorism among Black students at elite colleges.

Why are Women Underrepresented in Elite Colleges and Universities? A Non-Linear Decomposition Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 735-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Bielby ◽  
Julie Renee Posselt ◽  
Ozan Jaquette ◽  
Michael N. Bastedo
Keyword(s):  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Elite Colleges

The Construction of Open Course Platform of Teaching Resources Oriented to Local Colleges and Universities

2014 ◽  
Vol 998-999 ◽  
pp. 1721-1724
Author(s):  
Hai Ying Liu ◽  
Rong Hua Lu
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Elite Colleges ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Open Courses

Given the current situation that foreign open courses and high-quality curricula of domestic elite colleges cannot be used directly by our teachers and students, a platform for teaching resources of open course has been founded. Relying on the platform, carefully chosen domestic and foreign high-quality curricula relevant to the disciplines of our college together with our own high-quality curricula are classified and presented to our teachers and students for free, and shared conditionally by learners outside the college. After the initial commissioning, the platform has been running smoothly.

scholarly journals An Antitrust Analysis of College Early Admission Programs

2005 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam L. Henry
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefit ◽  
College Admissions ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Antitrust Law ◽  
Early Admission ◽  
Elite Colleges ◽  
Educational Product ◽  
Antitrust Analysis ◽  
Fierce Competition

College admissions at the level of elite colleges and universities would seem, to the uninitiated, to offer a model of the competitive market that antitrust law endeavors to promote and maintain. Notwithstanding the significant branding power of a handful of truly elite colleges, the college market exhibits many of the paradigmatic competitive market’s hallmark features, including substantial numbers of both producers and consumers of the educational product, and seemingly unhindered information on the parts of both parties. Indeed, there can be little doubt that the system promotes sometimes-fierce competition: not only among applicants for elite colleges, but also among colleges for elite applicants. Such competition drives colleges to make themselves more attractive in two ways: by reducing prices through scholarships, grants, research stipends, and the like, and by improving their product through inducements like honors designations and programs. In either form, this competition redounds to the economic benefit of admitted students.

Multiplying Status Locations

2018 ◽  
pp. 158-202
Author(s):  
Steven Brint
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
High Status ◽  
Leadership Programs ◽  
Elite Colleges ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
High Achieving

This chapter examines how, in the college-for-all era, colleges and universities simultaneously maintained and expanded high-status tracks and locations. In most cases the mechanisms that colleges used to encourage high-achieving and motivated students reinforced rather than redistributed family-related social advantages. These mechanisms ranged from increased levels of selectivity in the country's elite colleges and the maintenance of rigorous standards in quantitative majors to the addition of new honors and leadership programs. By multiplying status locations on campus, colleges and universities maintained and invented new hierarchies of privilege even as they accommodated intensifying demands for democratization and equity. Diversity was desirable so long as it did not harm white upper-middle-class students' own opportunities.

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