Descriptive Statistics, Context, and the Questionable Contribution of Regression: An Evaluation of Occupation and Settlement Patterns of Initial Black College Graduates, Fisk University, 1875–1920

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhavi Venkatesan
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Black College ◽  
Fisk University

Increasing Enrollment of Blacks at a Predominately White Southern University: Perceptions and Characteristics of Black Graduates

1981 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 593-594
Author(s):  
Anthony J. White ◽  
David E. Suddick ◽  
Sidney E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Minority Students ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Black College ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Black Graduates ◽  
Experience Good ◽  
Black Alumni ◽  
The University ◽  
Southern University

This study surveyed 566 black college graduates for their perceptions for attracting more minority students to the University. Academic programs and location were critical factors noted. A majority (93%) of black alumni rated their educational experience good-to-excellent and 84% indicated they would attend the University again. The study suggests marketing techniques regarding admission should be changed to strategies emphasizing needs of the institution, e.g., use of black alumni, black professors, and black students.

scholarly journals What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated?: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 237802311982933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter K. Enns ◽  
Youngmin Yi ◽  
Megan Comfort ◽  
Alyssa W. Goldman ◽  
Hedwig Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Lower Risk ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Black College ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

What percentage of Americans have ever had a family member incarcerated? To answer this question, we designed the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). The survey was administered in the summer of 2018 by NORC at the University of Chicago using their AmeriSpeak Panel. It was funded by FWD.us, which released a separate report using the data. The data show that 45 percent of Americans have ever had an immediate family member incarcerated. The incarceration of an immediate family member was most prevalent for blacks (63 percent) but common for whites (42 percent) and Hispanics (48 percent) as well. College graduates had a lower risk of having a family member incarcerated, but the risk for black college graduates was comparatively high. The most common form of family member incarceration was the incarceration of a sibling.

Familial Financial Assistance and Body Mass Index in Black College Graduates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caryn N. Bell ◽  
Courtney S. Thomas Tobin ◽  
Brenda Robles ◽  
Erica C. Spears ◽  
Roland J. Thorpe,
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Black College

“The Burden of his Ambition is to Achieve a Distinguished Career”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
African American ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Black College ◽  
Honorary Degree ◽  
Student Aspirations ◽  
American Scholar ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Personal Success

This chapter focuses on African American higher education. In 1930, the Howard University Board of Trustees bestowed an honorary degree on acclaimed African American scholar W.E.B. DuBois. In delivering that year's commencement address, DuBois criticized the black students' zeal to use higher education to benefit themselves by entering “into a few well-paid professions.” Similarly, Howard University alumnus, faculty member, and dean Kelly Miller scolded students for adopting what he called “the mercenary motive” in seeking higher education solely for the purpose of achieving personal success. In contrast with alumni who fulfilled their obligations to serve others in the decades following the Civil War, according to Miller, black college graduates in the early twentieth century were seduced by commercialism. Scholars have attributed the perceived shift in African American college student aspirations partly to changes resulting from the influence of Northern philanthropists on black higher-education institutions.

The Integration of Women and Minorities into the Auditing Profession since the Civil Rights Period

2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 2145-2177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Role Models ◽  
College Freshmen ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Black College ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
Accounting Graduates

ABSTRACT: Following the Civil Rights Movement and the “quiet revolution” in women's work over the years from 1950 to 1970, women and minorities increasingly joined the auditing profession while the profession ramped up efforts to encourage integration. The purpose of this study is to rigorously examine how the integration of auditors has evolved since the civil rights and quiet revolution period. The primary distinctive feature of this study is that it evaluates the auditing profession's integration by comparing it to samples of occupations similar to auditing for the purpose of isolating auditing-specific forces influencing integration. I find that the pay structure in auditing is unusually equal, consistent with “equal pay for equal work.” The results for women, Hispanics, and miscellaneous minorities are consistent with members of these groups responding as one might expect to equal pay in auditing: groups that are poorly paid in other occupations select into auditing at higher rates, and groups that are well paid in other occupations select out of auditing at higher rates. The results for blacks are anomalous in that their pay in auditing has been good relative to many comparable occupations, but they have nevertheless been poorly represented in auditing. There are a number of theories that could potentially explain why blacks may be anomalously underrepresented in auditing. To begin to test them, I perform an exploratory analysis of the representation of women and minorities among college freshmen, college graduates, and young auditors. The results suggest that accounting is a popular degree among black college freshmen and that a relatively high percentage of accounting graduates are black. However, although they are well represented in the pool of potential new auditors, black accounting graduates enter the auditing profession at very low rates relative to other occupations requiring levels of education similar to auditing. The results suggest that black underrepresentation in auditing is not due to a lack of awareness among, or role models for, young blacks. Data Availability: Data used in this study are available in the IPUMS-CPS database, which is compiled and distributed by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota; the National Survey of College Graduates, which is available from the National Science Foundation; and the Freshmen Survey of the Higher Education Research Institute, which is available to registered users of its website.

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