...College hoops' black coaching issue Myron Medcalf [ARCHIVE] ESPN.com | July 18, 2013 When a national sportswriter calls to talk about minority hiring in college basketball, folks of all races seem to get nervous. As I sought feedback following last week's release of the "2012 Racial and Gender Report Card: College Sport" by Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport -- the report excludes historically black colleges and universities -- which states that the current pool of Division I African-American head coaches (18.6 percent through the 2011-12 season) is at its lowest mark since the 1995-96 season, people weren't sure what, if anything, they should say. Multiple administrators passed on the opportunity. The NCAA wanted to see my questions, and then it wanted a pre-interview phone conversation before it ultimately emailed its responses. The coaches who talked on the record always ended our chats with the same concern: "I didn't say anything that will make me look bad, right?" Shaka Smart Andy Lyons/Getty Images To reach Shaka Smart's level, black coaches often have to overcome certain labels. I don't blame them. It's an incendiary issue, because we're uncomfortable with race as dialogue. It's still a subject that makes athletic directors -- 89 percent of whom are white at the Division I level, per the report -- squirm. Minority coaches speak cautiously, because they don't want to be labeled as rebels or militants. That hesitancy...
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...As a black male I have always been in the minority throughout my educational journey. Even though the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates have increased, data reflects that black males are still not achieving at the rate that I feel is acceptable compared to other minority groups. I have seen different programs and methods both work and fall below expectations. Due to my experiences in school of using different resources I feel that I can contribute to solution for recruiting, retaining, and graduation black males. As a student that did not over achieve scholastically, I personally understand a lot of the obstacles and personal vices that black males encounter that contribute to academic underachievement. Higher Ed now knows the main reasons why black males are not succeeding, however I want to focus on the research that will change the...
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...------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT Although they are small in recognition women of color have strived hard to better the higher education system and opportunities afforded to women of colors and minorities as a whole. Yes over the past couple of decades African American women have been afforded a 60 percent increase in the number of faculty and an 80 percent increase in the amount of women administrators. Yes this is a huge percentage of change, but even with these advancement African American women still represent less than seven percent of the total percentage of administrators. The women that do manage to break down the transparent barriers encounter countless problems throughout their career that Caucasian male or females or even African American males could even grasp. The careers of these heroines are often filled with unimaginable amounts of internal/external stressors, bouts of having to cope with being oppressed, seen as tokens or having to deal with racism and/or sexism, but yet they persevered. Through all of this they are still underappreciated, under compensated, and standing directly under the glass ceiling. Throughout this study I will attempt to identify the stressors that these women often endure, identify coping strategies of those that made it, and bring the subject to the attention of the oppressors....
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...Tashiana Hill Tmh2012@yahoo.com Social Psychology PSYC321 Social Psychology of Nightclubs The Locker Room For my observation for this project I chose to observe a nightclub, called The Locker Room. This club is located in Marietta, Ohio. I recently visited Ohio Valley University, which is a college I attended last year and this is a club we would go to on the weekends. Being from PG County, Maryland and going to this club in Ohio was a different scene. Nightclubs in general are a universal part of my generation and also culture. Nightclubs are social venues and attract all genders, races, and ethnicities. Nightclubs are a place where you can meet friends or make friends, a place where you could dance, a place where you could enjoy the newest and hottest music. For some nightclubs are where they meet prospective dates, and nightclubs are aware of this, which is why they keep it all in mind when they are being designed. I have two goals for this observation my first goal is to see how the club goers interact with one another, which gender approaches the other more often? Also does the race of an individual play a role in how other interact with them? Second, I hope to investigate how club employees interact and treat the club goers, again based on race and gender. In this observation I hope to reveal hoe club goers interact and are treated while in nightclubs. I have three Research questions I posed during this observation. Does the gender of the individual have any...
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...Effects of Sorority and Fraternity Membership on Class Participation and African American Student Engagement in Predominantly White Classroom Environments Shaun R. Harper The relationship between Black Greek-letter organization membership and African American student engagement in almost exclusively White college classrooms was explored in this study. Data were collected through interviews with 131 members from seven undergraduate chapters at a large, predominantly White university in the Midwest. This study resulted in an explanatory model that shows how underrepresentation, voluntary race representation, and collective responsibility positively affect active participation, while Forced Representation has a negative effect. Findings also reveal that faculty teaching styles both positively and negatively affect engagement among African American sorority and fraternity members in their classes. The implications of these findings are discussed at the end of the article. The title of Kimbrough‘s (2005) article, ―Should Black Fraternities and Sororities Abolish Undergraduate Chapters?‖ captures the essence of an ongoing debate among students, various stakeholders on college and university campuses across the country, and leaders of the nine national Black Greekletter organizations (BGLOs). Instead of offering a balanced description of risks and educational benefits associated with membership, Kimbrough instead chose to focus almost exclusively on the persistent...
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...Southern California (CA). He earned his M.Ed. from the University of Southern California, M.F.A. from Brandeis University (MA) and B.A. from Western Washington University (WA) after first attending Linfield College (OR). | SUMMER 2007 JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ADMISSION W W W. N A C ACNET.ORG Beyond Admission: Understanding Pre-College Variables and the Success of At-Risk Students Abstract This study examined pre-college variables from an admission-office perspective and the ability of these variables to predict college grade point average (GPA) for students specially admitted into an academic support program for at-risk students. The research was conducted at a private, highly-selective, research university in the southwest United States. The primary determining factors for this special admission program are lowerthan-average high school GPA and/or standardized test scores. Pre-college variables that most significantly predicted college GPA were high school GPA, gender of student, and leadership experience prior to applying. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores failed to predict success as measured by college GPA. Beyond Admission Seventy-five percent of students who drop out of college do so during their first two years, and 57 percent of students leave their first college without graduating (Tinto, 1993). First semester grades (McGrath & Braunstein, 1997) and first year grades (Gifford, Briceño-Perriott, & Mianzo, 2006; Reason, 2003) are significantly linked with retention...
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...IV. RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Fund Local and National Programs and Research Black and Hispanic males face opportunity gaps in addition to academic achievement gaps. These gaps shows how environmental factors influence the likelihood that students will graduate and graduate college ready. Black and Latino boys are overrepresented in special education classes, those who have been suspended and expelled. They also have less access to academically rigorous curriculum. All of these factors help explain the lagging graduation and college readiness rates among New York City’s students of color. Provide more funding and support for programs already in place to target schools with high concentrations of black and Hispanic males. Young Men's Initiative (YMI)...
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...College Students Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence Against Women Danae Dean Florida Memorial University (Submitted to Dr. Boynton in partial fulfillment of the requirement for Bachelor for Social Work) Domestic Violence takes place in this country every 9 seconds. Domestic Violence is violent or aggressive behavior within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner. Aggressive behavior at home is a national issue that influences ladies of all races, ages, financial statuses, and religions with measurements underscoring the overwhelming impacts of aggressive behavior at home on the lives of battered ladies. The purpose behind this study is to assess the attitudes and states of mind of understudies about aggressive behavior toward battered women. These understudies frequently have the obligation to help ladies, men, and families in managing aggressive behavior at home issues. This study surveyed the attitudes and dispositions of Florida Memorial University students on domestic violence towards women. The number of students as of 2013 is 1,567.Enrollment Distribution by Origin Percentage is Florida 1185 75.6%, International 163 10.4%, Out of State 219 14.0%. The ratio of males to females has remained at 4 to 6 for the last five years from 2013, Females 61 % and males 39%. Based on Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) definitions on Ethnicity, all foreign students are classified as international students. African American...
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...Waddell and Ukpokodu (2012) also argued that the” lack of diversity in the teaching force is a causative factor to the over-representation of students of color and those from low-income backgrounds in special education programs”. Large disproportions in advanced course enrollment, rates of participation in gifted programs and suspension rates for Black and Latino students were also noted (Pabon, 2011 ; Howard, 2010). For example, the United States Department of Education reported that in the 2005-2006 academic year, sixty four percent of White students took Algebra II , in contrast to forty eight percent of Latino and fifty five percent of African American students (Howard,...
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...the cashier. She walks to the back of the store to retrieve the item she came for. She hears the door open and she turns around to see who entered the store. It is the same black male that she noticed in the parking lot. The black male begins to make his way to the back of the store. The woman’s nerves spike again and she hastily grabs what she came in to get and high tales it to the cashier. After she is checked out she bolts out of the store and back to her car, where she speeds out of the parking lot without looking back. This type of racism is not at all uncommon. All the black male wanted to do was buy the items he came for and leave, all while minding his own business. This type of racism occurs more often than not. America has come a long way from segregation back in the sixties, but college campuses still have a long way to go. According to Steele, college campuses all across America are experiencing racism (22) . The racism experiences can range from minimal things like the story above, or they can become more serious where black students have taken up protests to stop college racism. According to Steele’s research incidents of on-campus “intergroup conflict” have occurred at more than 160 colleges in the last two years (22). The most notorious is the October 1986 beating of a black student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst after an argument about the World Series turned into a racial bashing (Steele 21). Steele has spent the majority of his adult...
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...every one male user. There is a wide range of age among the whitener users overall, ranging from 20 to 50 years old. A large number of whitener users overall are Black and Hispanic users with occupations that are focused around management as well as face to face interactions with various people. Income levels among whitener users overall starts on the low end of around $40,000 to $49,999 and the high end of $75,000 and up. Marital status of these users is mainly single as well as divorced. The next group of whitening users is focused around the 5.5% of adults who strictly use the whitening gels. This group again contains two females to every one male with an age focus of 18 to 45. The education level of these users is some college experience and lower with occupations that are focused in sales, health care, and office support. Users of the whitening gels are mainly of Hispanic ethnicity as well as white. Most of the users live in the Southeast and Southwest regions of the United States. There is a wide range of income levels among the users due to the lower cost of whitening gels. Again the users of whitening gels are either single or divorced. The last group is users of the whitening strips which are composed of 8.3% of adults. The gender of this group is consistent with the other groupings being two females to every one male. The age focus of this group is consistent as well being 18 to 45. The education level of the users is mainly some college experience to college graduates...
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...bachelor’s degrees awarded annually had nearly tripled over the past 40 years, but awarded STEM degrees had not. The U.S. continued to award fewer STEM degrees each year compared to other countries worldwide (Maltese & Tai, 2011). High school students with impressive grade point averages (GPA), no matter their race or gender should be encouraged to pursue a STEM major (Thompson & Bolin, 2011). Studies proved high school coursework played a significant role in a student’s decision to pursue a STEM major while in college. The completion of high school courses such as biology, chemistry, physics, calculus, and trigonometry showed a positive correlation with students deciding to major in a STEM field (Maltese & Tai, 2011). An important attribute to increase enrollment of women of color in STEM disciplines is to have the presence of women that work in STEM in the community and institution that serve as role models. Despite the importance of pre-college characteristics and experiences, however, research also suggests that institutional structures, policies, and practices...
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...Introduction A personality of an individual gives him color. Human personality is the particular combination of emotional attitudinal and behavioral response of an individual. Human behavior refers to the range of behaviors exhibited by humans that are influenced by attitudes and emotions. Attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place or thing. A main factor that determines attitudes is like and dislikes, when one person likes one person he/she shows care and love to them. Attitudes can sculpt personalities and the way people view who we are. People with similar attitudes tend to stick together as interests and hobbies are common. This does not mean that people with attitudes do not interact, because they do. What it means is that specific attitudes can bring people together. Attitudes have a lot to do with the mind which highly relates to Human behavior. Teenagers today are going through an era of diverse changes affecting their social needs, perceptions and obligations that need to be recognized Teenagers, nowadays gets into an early relationship because of what they feel, they fall in love easily because of their emotions which leads to not into good results, out of curiosity they tend to have sexual intercourse even though they are not married (Pre-marital sex) they do this because they feel that they are old enough to do it, lack of understanding the consequences of sex at an early age and they want to show love to their partner Pre-marital sex...
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...Also, GSR does not differentiate between athletes who leave early for a professional sport, transfer schools for more playing time, or drops out but would be eligible to play and study the following semester.” (Southall, 2012) Looking at this information I find that NCAA is trying it’s best to keep the student-athletes on the right path to graduation. The GSR also includes the factor if a student-athlete transfers into the institution.Federal Graduation RateThe federal graduation rate is more focused on the colleges’ retention rate which is very high because of the fact that college athletes play one year of their sport and they go to the draft. According to Southall (2012) data that was “compiled college athletes’ graduation rates stemmed partly from press coverage that 76 to 92 percent of professional athletes lacked college degrees.” As research shows retention is something that every NCAA school has to deal with as far as accreditation and financial support from the government. “The latest single-year FGR was 63 percent for all students and 65 percent for all NCAA Division I athletes. Corresponding FGR rates for various Division I sports were FBS football at 56 percent, men’s basketball at 45 percent, women’s basketball at 63 percent, and baseball at 48 percent.” (Southall, 2012) For example across the nation many division 1 institutions struggle to meet the retention of the whole student body and knowing...
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...Jordan’s Male Academy: An Insight Look American individualism, a conceptualized form of individualism, is the basis through which individuals are believed to be best represented for accuracy to generalized standards of behavior. However, it is the diversity of this country that makes the American individualism more opaque and less clear, when deviations from the standard appear. Jordan High School is an institution in Long Beach, and the place for the project observations to take place. The framework to be used in this project is a combination of Geert Hofstede’s value dimensions and Edward T. Hall’s High and Low Context cultures, to better understand the culture within the school. As part of my research, outside sources are included such as websites, books, scholarly journals, etc. According to data from the academic year 2013-2014, the total enrollment of the school is 3,481 students. The student ethnicity is divided as follows: 67.3% Hispanic or Latino, 21.6% Black or African American, 4.1% Asian, 3.2% Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 1.8% White, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.3% Two or more races, and 0.2% Not reported. The student population is majorly populated by students on the free/reduced meals program, and an estimated 22% are English learners. The most frequent language of English learner students is Spanish, with an 84%, followed by Khmer (Cambodian), 0.8%. The teacher’s ethnicity is described as follows for the 2011-2012 academic school year, 62...
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