Despite an apparent increase in undergraduate neuroscience programs offered by colleges and universities, there has been little effort to document this growth. In the present report we describe our analysis of the expansion of undergraduate neuroscience programs of study over more than 20 years and detail a number of institutional characteristics of colleges and universities that offer undergra...

In this study we examined the college choice process for Black males attending community colleges. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study, findings indicated that Black males who attend community colleges select their institutions based upon having a degree in their chosen field, the coursework/curriculum, job placement record, availability of financial aid, and academic reputation....

CONTEXT There is attrition of women across professorial ranks in academic pathology. Women are underrepresented as leaders; 15.4% of academic pathology departments are chaired by women, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). OBJECTIVE To identify areas for targeted interventions that can advance academic and leadership development of women faculty by examining (1) s...

Since the 1980s, school ranking systems have been a topic of discussion among leaders of higher education. Various ranking systems are based on inadequate data that fail to illustrate the complex nature and special contributions of the institutions they purport to rank, including U.S. medical schools, each of which contributes uniquely to meeting national health care needs. A study by Tancredi ...

BACKGROUND Women have entered academic medicine in significant numbers for 4 decades and now comprise 20% of full-time faculty. Despite this, women have not reached senior positions in parity with men. We sought to explore the gender climate in academic medicine as perceived by representatives to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) ...

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In part one of this practitioner packet, we reviewed how colleges seeking to reduce complexity in the student experience can gather information through multiple methods and from multiple groups of college stakeholders in order to identify areas that need improvement. In this part, we discuss how colleges can use the collected data to devise and implement solutions to identified problems. We use...

This paper on scientific and technological achievements transformation of Chinese colleges and universities of problems existing in the income distribution has carried on the profound elaboration, and through the survey analysis, comparison research method, according to China's relevant policies of colleges and universities, the disposition and distribution of scientific and technological achie...

Increasingly, students with learning disabilities are attending community colleges and traditional 4-year colleges and universities. This article presents the results of a review of the literature on services available or recommended for students with learning disabilities. The results suggest that postsecondary institutions have begun to provide a wide array of services to these students. Ther...

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