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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED131252 AUTHOR: Samuels, William M.; Buckner, Donald R.
TITLE: Minority Barriers Identification Conference
(Arlington, Virginia, December 15-17, 1975). Final Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 86 p.; Not available in hard copy due to marginal
reproducibility of original document
ABSTRACT: Papers, workshop reports, and pertinent
recommendations from a conference concerned with barriers
faced by minorities seeking training in the allied health
professions are presented. Data provided for the
conference,
gathered from Northeast, Southeast and Southwest United
States during a 2-year period, related to barriers
encountered by Black, Indian, and Spanish-surnamed students
attempting to enroll in allied health professions in their
geographical areas. These barriers were validated and
placed
under the major headings of need for financial assistance,
need for role models, poor academic preparation and lack of
tutorial services, lack of career information and
counseling, and cultural and social gaps. Five priority
recommendations for attacking the barriers were presented:
(1) Initiation of a national comprehensive allied health
manpower development program, (2) development and
enforcement of a strategy to identify and remove culturally
biased admissions criteria and procedures, (3) public or
private capacitation resource for training centers based on
completion of training programs and registration in a
profession by minority students, (4) development and
implementation of advocacy programs to overcome barriers to
minority students entering the allied health professions,
and (5) allied health traineeships that would include
specific funding for ancillary clinical training costs. A
listing of participants is appended. (TA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Access-to-Education; Accountability-;
American-Indians; Bias-; Blacks-; Civil-Rights; Educational
Opportunities; Educational-Problems; Labor-Force
Development; Minority-Group-Influences;
Program-Development;
Spanish-Americans
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Admission-Criteria; *Affirmative-Action;
*Allied-Health-Occupations-Education; *Cultural-Influences;
*Educational-Discrimination; *Minority-Groups
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