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Beyond a Bachelor’s Implementing a Graduate School Preparation Program

Bridgette Peteet, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2016 - 
- Vol. 47, Iss: 2, pp 95-112
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For example, this article pointed out that black students are underrepresented in graduate degrees in Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, and advocated the education of black students.
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Advancing the education of Blacks is of paramount importance. Black students are underrepresented in graduate degrees in Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. Much attention has ...

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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Ioana Boghian
- 25 Jun 2013 - 
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper presents a combination of social theory, statistical data, illustrations, and interviews, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judg..., which is a collection of interviews with Bourdieu.
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“Girl Power”: Gendered Academic and Workplace Experiences of College Women in Engineering

TL;DR: This paper examined the gendered experiences of graduating women engineering students in academic and workplace environments and found that women experience bias in both settings, often via implicit bias in academia and with instances of implicit bias, sexism, and sexual harassment occurring even more often in the workplace through internship experiences.
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The Matching of STEM Degree Holders with STEM Occupations in Large Metropolitan Labor Markets in the United States.

TL;DR: It is found that although labor-market size has no effect, living in denser STEM labor markets elevates the probabilities of matching; having an advanced degree enhances this effect; being black or Latino additionally lowers the chances of matching.
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More than an intervention: strategies for increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide insight into the strategies used by leaders of graduate school preparation programs for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to recruit and retain graduate students of color within STEM fields.
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Black First-Generation Social Work Doctoral Students

TL;DR: Black students are underrepresented in doctoral programs in social work, and the disparity calls for greater attention to the preparation of such students for doctoral programs as discussed by the authors, which is the goal of our work.
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Ioana Boghian
- 25 Jun 2013 - 
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper presents a combination of social theory, statistical data, illustrations, and interviews, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judg..., which is a collection of interviews with Bourdieu.
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The Color of Success: African-American College Student Outcomes at Predominantly White and Historically Black Public Colleges and Universities

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a quantitative study on the differences in the college experience between Black undergraduates who attended historically black colleges and universities and those who attended predominantly white colleges and Universities.

Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction

TL;DR: The contribution made by the educational system to the reproduction of the structure of power relationships and symbolic relationships between classes is discussed in this paper, with the focus on the distribution of cultural capital among classes.
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First-Generation College Students: Characteristics, Experiences, and Cognitive Development.

TL;DR: The authors found that first-generation students differ from their traditional peers in both entering characteristics and college experiences in both reading, math, and critical thinking skills, and that traditional students make greater net gains in reading during their first year.
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The Role of Perceptions of Prejudice and Discrimination on the Adjustment of Minority Students to College

TL;DR: The authors found that African Americans and Hispanics exhibited both the lowest participation rates as well as the highest propensity to drop out from college, while white students were more likely to enroll and persist in college.