Between 1994 and 2013, Black head coaches of Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball programs were more likely to be terminated than their White counterparts, adjusting for performance and characteristics of the coach. Controlling for employment at a historically Black college or university, which accounts for approximately a quarter of the Black coaches in our sample, ov...

Academic policies that require medical excuses are based on mistrust of students and conflict with institutional honor codes. Such policies undermine the philosophical and educational foundations of higher education; namely, to model and nurture honesty, integrity, and citizenship in emerging adults. Instead, they encourage hypocrisy and exaggeration by requiring students to prove they are sick...

A curriculum that incorporates the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008) essentials, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses guidelines (Cronenwett et al., 2007), and the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform initiatives (TIGER Informatics Competencies, 2009) should include formative experiences for students in nursing informatics. The challenge of creating a formativ...

This paper defends the use of asymmetric norms which grant greater privileges to minorities than to majorities. The norms we discuss include norms facilitating the establishment or prohibition of minorityonly or majority-only institutions, neighborhoods, or associations. While traditionally the primary arguments favoring minorities’ privileges have been based on considerations of fairness or ju...

This study examined rural–nonrural differences in college enrollment patterns among Indiana’s 2010 public high school graduates. It found that a similar proportion of graduates of rural and nonrural high schools enrolled in public Indiana colleges. In addition, a similar proportion of the two groups of graduates were presumptively eligible for selective and very selective four-year colleges bas...

Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college graduates...

The nursing shortage is exacerbated by the faculty shortage, as faculty approach retirement age and too few faculty exist to replace them. Masters-prepared nurse with limited preparation for teaching may be unable to attend traditional educational programs because of work and family commitments. Without further academic preparation, these nurses are illprepared for the faculty role. The College...

The C1 billion government drive to integrate information and communications technology (ICT) into UK schools and colleges has been "rmly focused on the technological transformation of the teaching profession. In particular, the establishment of a National Grid for Learning (NGfL) remains dependent on the successful &selling' of ICT to teachers; many of whom have previously proved unwilling to u...