(1991). Reducing Bias: Research Notes on Racism in America. This paper highlights recent developments in research on racism in the United States, and notes several conceptual issues of significance for the long-range planning work of those interested in reducing racism in America and particularly in Idaho. Growth in the number of minority researchers has resulted in increased attention toward racism as it affects other minority groups, and has led to the development of new theories or reinterpretations and to the greater sophistication of both theoretical development and empirical investigations. In addition, there is greater diversity to the definition of the word "racism". Some "constellations" of findings of recent empirical research on prejudice and discrimination include results on how prejudice is learned, class prejudice, racism and self-esteem, the impact of contact among diverse groups, additive multiculturalism, the nature of social experiences, and the role of schools. In addressing each of these subjects, the… [PDF]
(2016). U.S. Department of Education FY 2016 Agency Financial Report. Office of the Chief Financial Officer, US Department of Education The purpose of the United States Department of Education's (the Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to inform Congress, the President, and the American people on how the Department has used the federal resources entrusted to it to promote achievement and preparedness of students entering a global environment by fostering excellence and ensuring equal access. The Department demonstrated its commitment to education by, among other things: improving access to early learning programs, reforming elementary and secondary education, making higher education more accessible and affordable, and working to attract talented people to the teaching profession. The Department also demonstrated that it is a good steward of financial resources by putting in place well-controlled and well-managed business and financial management systems and processes. The AFR also provides high-level financial and performance highlights, assessments of controls, a summary of… [PDF]
(2008). Recouping the Value of the Humanities. College Quarterly, v11 n4 Fall. The corporate approach to education is groundless (because a large portion of education in the past, and even still, has always been firmly grounded in the Humanities). So, why this continuous assault on the Humanities? Because educational institutions have bought into the myth that education and the corporate world are hand-in-glove. But by assailing and dismantling the Humanities, have educators not also begun the process of removing the very foundation of liberal democracy–it has not been the corporate world that provided them with ideas which they supposedly cherish–ideas, such as, freedom, personal liberty, human dignity, democracy, and equality. In this article, the author stresses the role and function of Humanities and tries to recoup its value…. [PDF]
(2009). Reshaping the \Pillow Angel\: Plastic Bodies and the Rhetoric of Normal Surgical Solutions. Quarterly Journal of Speech, v95 n1 p20-42 Feb. This essay uses the controversial \Ashley Treatment\ to argue that normative body rhetorics have become untethered from and more influential than traditional medical perspectives in determinations about surgical intervention. While disagreeing greatly over the ethics of the \Treatment,\ both its supporters and critics construct rhetorics of a \healthy\ body against which pre- and post-Treatment bodies can be evaluated. These rhetorics demonstrate how \health\ and \illness\ can be defined more through social ideology than medical certainty, resulting in fluid notions of what it means to have a \normal\ body and how surgical techniques should be employed to achieve normality. (Contains 84 notes.)… [Direct]
(2010). After Pell Grants: The Neoliberal Assault on Prisoners. Policy Futures in Education, v8 n1 p61-70. The number of prisoners in the United States has accelerated over the past thirty years, giving it the highest incarceration rate in the world. The rise in the prison rate has coincided with the ascendancy of neoliberal policies of governance. These include, deregulation of markets, reduction of welfare services, and harsh punitive measures for those who transgress social mores. Contained within neoliberal criminal policy is the proclivity to utilize prisons as a means to maintain societal inequities. This article examines the link between prisoner education policy and wider social and economic policies that disproportionately affect people of color and the poor. Neoliberal prisoner education is predicated, in part, upon the privileging of vocational training over liberal, higher learning. Current policy, typified by the recently passed Second Chance Act, reinforces hierarchies both in education and in the workplace by narrowly defining prisoners as human capital within the market…. [Direct]
(2011). Career Development with Transgender College Students: Implications for Career and Employment Counselors. Journal of Employment Counseling, v48 n3 p105-113 Sep. The number of transgender college students continues to increase every year. These students face unique challenges that many college and university career centers are not prepared to handle. This article describes some of the challenges facing transgender students and college career centers. A professional development design is proposed to assist career professionals who work with transgender clients in college career centers and community mental health agencies. Implications for career and employment counselors are also provided…. [Direct]
(1992). Employment of Women Holding Tenure-System Teaching Positions at Kentucky's Universities and Community Colleges Hits Record High 1990. Staff Report 92-2. This staff report presents data on tenured and non-tenured female faculty employment in Kentucky's university system and an analysis of employment patterns of the state-supported institutions of higher learning. Among the findings are the following: (1) the addition of 306 women teachers to the tenure system lifted both the number and percentage of female faculty to a 16-year high; (2) six of the nine state universities (counting the community college system as one university) employed more tenure-system women in 1990 than in 1987; (3) Kentucky State University lost more tenure-system women than any other state university; and (4) Kentucky's universities included about 3.9 percent black females in their tenure system in 1990, which was more than in any other year. However, black women held proportionally fewer tenure-system positions than in all but two of the last 16 years. In addition, the report shows that 4 out of 10 faculty on track for tenure consideration were female….
(1988). Kentucky Universities Gain Eight Black Professors in 1987 Reversing Six-Year Decline. Staff Report 88-6. This staff report presents data on black faculty employment in the tenure program of the Kentucky state university system and the employment patterns of the state-supported institutions of higher learning. Among the findings are the following: (1) the total number of blacks teaching in the tenure system rose to 131 in 1987, reversing a 6-year decline; this, however, brought the total to 4 fewer than in 1975; (2) total blacks teaching in the tenure system in 1987 represented 2.6 percent of the total faculty; (3) 11 more blacks taught at traditionally white institutions in 1987 than in 1985; and (4) Western State University had the lowest rate of employing black faculty with blacks making up just 0.8 percent of its faculty. Overall, the report shows that Kentucky's state-supported universities and community colleges made modest gains in the employment of black faculty members between 1985 and 1987. The traditionally white universities in Kentucky are viewed as still quite distant from…
(1988). Jefferson County Schools within Student Compliance Guidelines for First Time but Segregation Exists in Almost All Advance Programs 1987-88. Staff Report 88-9. This paper reports on the status of desegregation of students, teachers, administrators, and central office personnel in the Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) for the 1987-88 school year. The report indicates that although all schools were brought within the student enrollment guidelines for the 1987-88 school year, many problems remain unsolved. The following desegregation problems are discussed: (1) student enrollment at some schools still does not meet state distribution guidelines; (2) advanced programs and black teachers and administrators are still being segregated; (3) segregated advanced programs are used to offset racial imbalance in regular programs; (4) inner-county schools still have the highest black-student percentages while outer-county schools still have the lowest, and both regions are losing black students; (5) the student ethnic and racial profile is inconsistently reported across schools; (6) new black teachers are still being assigned to predominantly…
(1990). Discrimination against Black Apartment-Seekers Increases Slightly in Western Kentucky, 1989. Staff Report 90-1. This study of racial discrimination toward blacks seeking rental units in seven Western Kentucky cities found that blacks were treated differently and negatively compared to whites at a rate of 9.8 percent in 1989, whereas the rate of discrimination in 1987 was 7.5 percent. Information was collected from tests by teams of black and white testers posing as apartment-seekers. The following discrimination criteria were applied: (1) availability; (2) courtesy; (3) location; (4) requirements; (5) neglect; (6) quality; (7) racial remarks; and (8) price. Among results reported are the following: (1) overall, instances of discriminatory treatment of blacks increased between 1987 and 1989; (2) rental agents in Paducah, Bowling Green, Owensboro, Henderson, Hopkinsville, Murray, and Fulton were most likely to discriminate by misrepresenting apartment availability; (3) blacks were treated less courteously than whites more frequently in 1989 than in 1987; (4) Henderson had more discrimination in…
(1982). Number and Percent of Black Faculty at State Universities Decline from 1979 to 1981. Staff Report 82-10. Analysis of employment patterns at State colleges and universities in Kentucky shows that the percentage and number of black faculty declined from 1979 to 1981. Most of the traditionally white State universities continued in 1981 to have overwhelmingly white faculties. Blacks comprised 2.8 percent of the faculty across the State, and only 2.0 percent of faculty at the previously white schools were black. The University of Kentucky, the State's largest, employed 25 blacks out of a faculty of 1511. Only the University of Kentucky's community college system improved steadily in hiring black faculty each year since 1975. Even so, the percentage of black faculty in the community colleges still represented less than the 7.1 percent of blacks in the State population as of 1980. More progress was made at Kentucky State University than at any other State school, with the black faculty concentration continuing to decline from 50 percent in 1975 to 39.8 percent in 1981, making Kentucky State's…
(1983). Female Faculty Increases Slightly to 27 Percent at State Universities. Staff Report 83-1. Analysis of the employment patterns of State colleges and universities in Kentucky shows that small increases in the number of women working in the State university tenure system raised the percentage of female faculty from 25.7 percent in 1975 to 27 percent in 1981. The percentage of minority female faculty members, however, dropped between 1979 and 1981, from 4.8 percent of all female faculty to 4.7 percent. The fact that the two largest State universities–the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville–still had fewer than 20 percent of their tenure system faculty positions held by women shows that significant gains are yet to be made among Kentucky's State-supported universities. The accomplishments of the University of Kentucky's community college system, however, in increasing both the number and percentage (from 50.7 percent to 55 percent) of female faculty between 1979 and 1981 prove that qualified women can be hired and effectively used in faculty positions….
(1985). Jefferson County and Louisville Have Most Segregated Public Housing in Kentucky 1985: Desegregation Accelerates at Most Authorities between July 1984 and July 1985. This report examines the state of integration at 22 public housing authorities in Kentucky. Family residency data showed that the public housing authorities of Jefferson County and Louisville were the first and second most segregated authorities in Kentucky as of July 1985. Overall, however, desegregation at Kentucky's public housing authorities accelerated between 1984 and 1985. The following steps are suggested to eliminate segregation: (1) authorities should adopt and implement voluntary affirmative action desegregation plans; (2) those authorities operating under affirmative action desegregation plans should recommit themselves to abiding by their desegregation obligations; (3) any new housing project should open with racial occupancy equal to the authority-wide black/white family ratio; and (4) housing authorities planning rehabilitation/remodeling work should move a racially balanced tenant population into the project once construction is completed. The report concludes with…
(1987). Record 14 Fayette County Schools Assigned over 30 Percent Black Students 1986-87. Black Teachers Fall to Nine-Year Low of 187; Two Black Administrators Added. This report examines the desegregation of students, teachers, and administrators in the Fayette County (Kentucky) Public Schools for the 1986-87 school year. It is based on counts of students and professional personnel made in September 1986. Findings show that racial polarization is intensifying in the Fayette County schools. More blacks and fewer whites are attending the elementaries in the northern sector of the county. A large and growing number of whites–and more blacks–are attending the elementaries in the southern area of the county. The central-area elementaries continue to have the highest percentage of black students. The current district assignment policy is creating overcrowded conditions in almost all the southern elementaries and underutilization of capacity in almost all the northern and central elementaries. Portable classrooms are being used to maintain segregation and avoid cross-district busing. The report suggests that an alternative to building a new…
(1987). Inner-County Boundary Adjustments Pull Nearly all Schools within Guidelines 1986-87: Percentage of Black Teachers Unchanged, but Number Up; No Black Football and Basketball Coaches at Four Schools, Few Whites at Formerly-Black Schools. School officials, civil rights advocates, and students and parents deserve praise for the success the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Public Schools integration program has had in placing almost all schools within the enrollment guidelines for the 1986-87 school year for the first time since school desegregation began. Recommendations made for continuing successful integration efforts include the following: (1) a return to counting enrollment in mid-November; (2) possible boundary adjustments to accommodate adding 550 more black students to the inner-county secondary schools; (3) hiring of more black teachers and administrators; (4) use of hiring practices to break the destructive pattern of racial identifiability in the assignment of professional personnel that has emerged in some schools; and (5) support of efforts to increase housing desegregation. Charts are included which illustrate findings. Two appendices provide statistics on student enrollment by race in Jefferson County Public…