Legacies in Black and White: The Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool     

Howell  Cameron  Turner  Sarah E. 《Research in higher education》2004,45(4):325-351

Selective universities regularly employ policies that favor children of alumni (known as legacies) in undergraduate admissions. Since alumni from selective colleges and universities historically have been disproportionately white, admissions policies that favor legacies have disproportionately benefited white students. For this reason, legacy policies lead to additional costs in terms of reductions in racial diversity. As larger numbers of minority students graduate from colleges and universities and have children, however, the potential pool of legacy applicants will change markedly in racial composition. This analysis begins with a review of the history and objectives of the preference for children of alumni in undergraduate admissions. We then consider the specific case of the University of Virginia and employ demographic techniques to predict the racial composition of the pool of potential legacy applicants to the university. Significant changes in the racial composition of classes that graduated from the University of Virginia from the late 1960s through the 1970s foreshadow similar changes in the characteristics of alumni children maturing through the next two decades.  相似文献   

新形势下河南职业教育的改革与发展策略     

韩小爱 《河南职业技术师范学院学报(职业教育版)》2002,(2):50-52

加入WTO将促进我国经济的发展，为职业教育带来了良发展机遇。河南是人口大省，要把沉重的人口负担转变为经济发展需要的人力资源优势，必须大力发展职业教育，转变办学思想和办学观念，对现有管理体制和招生制度进行大胆改革，进一步提高办学质量和办学效益，并做好招生和毕业生就业安置工作。  相似文献   

灰色马尔科夫模型在高校招生中的应用研究     

冯晓林  王岁花 《教育教学论坛》2019,(24):44-46

本研究深入剖析了灰色马尔科夫模型在高校招生中的应用,由于高校生源变动的随机性、波动性以及复杂性,给招生预测工作带来了很多瓶颈。为了更准确地预测招生人数,我们将试图把灰色动态预测与马尔科夫预测模型融为一体,对高校招生人数进行预测。选取河南师范大学部分新生历年录取入学情况为研究对象,采用数据收集法、实验分析法、灰色马尔科夫模型等技术发掘数据中隐藏的规律和模式,从而为高校招生工作提供科学的依据。  相似文献   

The association between SAT prompt characteristics, response features, and essay scores     

Jennifer L. Kobrin  Hui Deng  Emily J. ShawAuthor vitae 《Assessing Writing》2011,16(3):154-169

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The Impact of an SES-Based Model on a College's Undergraduate Admissions Outcomes     

Young  John W.  Johnson  Paul M. 《Research in higher education》2004,45(7):777-797

In Grutter vs. Bollinger, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of race as one factor, among many in admissions decisions is constitutional. It is not known, however, whether future legal opinions will continue to uphold the use of affirmative action policies. Some have argued that class-based preferences can achieve many of the same goals as in affirmative action while being more likely to withstand legal challenges. To date, no empirical studies have been conducted on the potential impact of a class-based admissions policy if implemented at an undergraduate institution. This paper reports on a study at a selective public college and compares a number of outcomes under three admissions models: the original admissions decisions, a purely academic model, and an socio-economic status (SES)-based model. The findings showed that use of the SES-based model would have led to a more academically qualified class than in the original admitted class while maintaining substantially greater student diversity that was found under the academic model. An admissions policy based on preferences for socio-economically disadvantaged applicants appears to hold promise for other colleges and universities with similar institutional and applicant characteristics. The ideas and research design reported in this paper are based on the doctoral dissertation study of the second author, Undergraduate Admissions Models Incorporating Socioeconomic Factors (Johnson, 2000).  相似文献   

Pricing policy and the college choice process     

Dr. Randall G. Chapman 《Research in higher education》1979,10(1):37-57

Following the presentation of a marketing management paradigm for higher educational institutions, this paper discuses some aspects of the pricing policy process in colleges and universities. A statistical model of the college choice process is developed, and some empirical results related to the effects of price, among other factors, on the collegechoice decision-making behavior process of high school seniors are presented and interpreted. The two most important factors affecting the college choice process are seen to be college quality and price-related considerations. Marketing implications of these results are discussed.Presented at the Annual Forum of the Association For Institutional Research, Houston, Texas, May 1978.  相似文献   

Three dimensions of equity of access to higher education     

Tristan McCowan 《Compare》2016,46(4):645-665

Concerns over equity of access to higher education are widespread, but there is significant disagreement over what should constitute a fair system. This article assesses diverse conceptualisations of equity and explores the ways in which they embody themselves in the policies of three systems, those of England, Brazil and Kenya. While showing significant disparities of income level and enrolment ratio, all three have made concerted efforts to expand higher education access, accompanied by increasing stratification in terms of the quality and prestige of institutions. Analysis of policy options and outcomes leads to a proposal of three principles for understanding equity of access: availability, accessibility and horizontality. The third of these principles addresses the little-acknowledged safeguard that disadvantaged students should not be confined to lower-quality institutions, while at the same time allowing for diversity of ethos and disciplinary focus.  相似文献   

Within‐High‐School Versus Across‐High‐School Scaling of Admissions Assessments: Implications for Validity and Diversity Effects          下载免费PDF全文

Jack W. Kostal  Paul R. Sackett  Nathan R. Kuncel  Philip T. Walmsley  Melissa S. Stemig 《Educational Measurement》2017,36(1):39-46

Previous research has established that SAT scores and high school grade point average (HSGPA) differ in their predictive power and in the size of mean differences across racial/ethnic groups. However, the SAT is scaled nationally across all test takers while HSGPA is scaled locally within a school. In this study, the researchers propose that this difference in how SAT scores and HSGPA are scaled partially explains differences in validity and subgroup differences. Using a large data set consisting of 170,390 students each of whom matriculated at one of 114 separate colleges, the researchers find that awarding SAT scores by ranking SAT within a high school generally results in substantial reduction in the size of subgroup mean differences for this predictor. However, validity for predicting first‐year GPA is also reduced by a small amount. Conversely, placing HSGPA onto a nationally normed metric through the use of multiple regression procedures results in a moderate increase in the size of subgroup mean differences, while also producing a small increase in validity. Taken together, these findings suggest that differences in predictor scaling can partially explain differences in the size of subgroup mean differences between HSGPA and SAT scores and have implications for predictive power.  相似文献   

The decline in CUNY applications: Who and how come     

Mr. John M. Farago  Janice Weinman 《Research in higher education》1978,8(3):193-203

In the fall of 1976 applications for admission to the City University of New York (CUNY) had dropped sharply. In total number they were down by almost 13,000 from 1974, a drop of approximately 18%. Several hypotheses have been posited for the sharp decline in student applicants to the City University. Analysis of data drawn from the computer printouts of the City University's allocations indicates that the end of open admissions, for example, does not, in and of itself, explain the application drop. Similarly, the change in allocation formulas at CUNY seems not to explain the enrollment decline adequately. Finally, the imposition of tuition, or the perception about tuition, appears by no means the single most important factor in the enrollment drop. This paper attempts to determine the characteristics of the students not applying and to examine the reasons contributing to the sharp enrollment decline.  相似文献   

媒体就业空间压缩背景下的广播电视新闻教学——以苏州大学为例     

王玉明 《钦州学院学报》2011,26(5):73-76

广播电视新闻学有着较强的专业特点,技术性与操作性相对突出,就业方向较窄且就业门槛较高。随着专业就业空间的压缩,广播电视新闻学专业的教育形势变得严峻起来。如何在教育模式、课程设置等方面主动应对这种形势,如何既坚持专业方向又不至于"贻误"学生,是摆在所有广电新闻专业老师面前的难题。为此,苏州大学做了广泛探索,在培养模式、课程改革以及学分制探索等方面都提供了良好经验。  相似文献