Graduate Engineering Studies for Minorities: A Prospective.

Autor/in	Adams, Howard G.
Titel	Graduate Engineering Studies for Minorities: A Prospective.
Quelle	(1982), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Academic Achievement; Access to Education; Admission Criteria; Educational Environment; Engineering Education; Equal Education; Graduate Study; Higher Education; Minority Groups; Social Influences; Student Financial Aid; Student Recruitment; Student Teacher Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Ingenieurausbildung; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ethnische Minderheit; Sozialer Einfluss; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung
Abstract	Statistics indicate that between 1977 and 1981, the number of graduate degrees in engineering awarded to members of minority groups in the United States constituted only 2.3 percent of the total number of master's and doctorate degrees awarded in the field over that period. A major reason for the relatively small number of minorities with advanced engineering degrees is the widely-held assumption that there are no barriers to minority access to graduate programs. In fact, when minority students assess their chances for success in graduate school, they confront such barriers as 1) the difficulty of locating supportive campus communities; 2) the difficulty of being admitted to the school of one's choice, considering the subjectivity of the admissions process; 3) the paucity of financial assistance grants for minority graduate students; and 4) problems of strained student-adviser relationships, often due to conflicting cultural backgrounds. Such barriers to access must be removed by intensifying minority recruitment efforts into graduate engineering programs; restructuring the admissions process and reformulating admissions criteria; insuring that minorities are aware of and can compete for the full range of financial resources available; and creating academic milieus conducive to fully developing minority graduate students' academic potentials. (Author/MJL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC