Minority Student Attrition Research
Higher Education’s Challenge for Human Resource Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9735504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evangeline McConnell Castle (Louisiana State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 24-30 |
| Publication date | 1993-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x022007024 |
| OpenAlex | W2037619403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article addresses higher education’s major challenge for human resource development in the 1990s and beyond—enrolling and retaining to graduation our nation’s racial/ethnic minority students. At the institutional level, this challenge suggests the need for ongoing research and positive intervention. The first section focuses on the interrelationships among human resource development needs, problems associated with the underrepresentation of minorities in higher education, and the subsequent participation of minorities in the skilled labor force. The second section relates these issues to institution-level attrition research as an effective tool with which to more effectively retain students and begin to address the mismatch between future job opportunities and workers’ skill levels. The third section employs the interaction theoretical perspective to warn predominantly White colleges and universities (PWCUs) against basing intervention strategies upon research whose assumptions and recommendations belie the diversity among minority student populations
Attrition · Career development · Diversity (politics · Ethnic group · Graduation (instrument · Higher education · Human resources · Intervention (counseling · Medical education · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Race (biology · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Gender Studies · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology
Access to and Opportunity in Postsecondary Education in the United States
An Examination of Student Attrition at a Medium-Sized Southern University
Faculty Differences in University Attrition
A new elite? Higher education as seen through the lens of young people working in innovative technologies
Affairs of state and student retention
Ragged Edges
Student Persistence in a Public Higher Education System
Minority Dropout in Higher Education
Blacks in college
A Conceptual Model of Nontraditional Undergraduate Student Attrition
Dropouts from higher education
An approach to the measurement of psychological characteristics of college environments.
Student-Faculty Informal Contact and College Outcomes
Dropout from Higher Education
Black Students in Higher Education
An approach to the measurement of coping
The declining participation of African‐American men in higher education
The Undergraduate Woman
Mainstreaming Outsiders
Brown and black in white
Increasing Student Retention
Predicting Freshman Persistence and Voluntary Dropout Decisions from a Theoretical Model
Stages of Student Departure
The Case against the SAT
Comparative and Predictive Analyses of Black and White Students' College Achievement and Experiences
Getting in
The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education
Toward Black Undergraduate Student Equality in American Higher Education
Hispanics' Education and Background
Application of a Conceptual Model of College Withdrawal to Disadvantaged Students
Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification
Origins of American Scientists
Toward Black Undergraduate Student Equality in American Higher Education
In Pursuit of Equality in Higher Education
Conventional Failures and Unconventional Dropouts
Student and Institutional Characteristics as Determinants of the Prompt and Subsequent Four-Year College Graduation of Race and Sex Groups
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2021 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |