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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED328153 AUTHOR: Lopez, Thomas R.
TITLE: Some African American and Hispanic Voices from the
University of Toledo. A Monograph.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 53 p.
ABSTRACT: A project is described which sought to determine
what minority group faculty members think about a variety of
issues associated with life at The University of Toledo
(Ohio). The project began by grappling with the issue of
identifying who were members of selected minority groups.
Interviews conducted with the faculty members covered many
areas of interest: personnel, research, career advancement,
university governance, social life, university goal of
recruitment of "minority" group members, affirmative action,
tolerance, climate for minority group students, university
problems, and recommendations. The picture that emerged from
the interviews is that African Americans and Hispanic
faculty members feel a strong sense of alienation from the
University and a corresponding sense of professional and
personal isolation. Interviewees did not see the University
as a tolerant place where diversity is positively valued.
Respondents in the College of Education were particularly
strong in these views. Respondents regarded the University's
official desire to increase the number of minority group
members at all levels as little more than empty rhetoric.
There seemed to be virtually no contact between Hispanics
and African Americans on campus. Recommendations conclude
the monograph. (JDD)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Employment-Practices;
Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; Faculty-Recruitment; Governance-;
Higher-Education; Organizational-Climate; Quality-of-Working
Life; Racial-Composition; Racial-Discrimination; School
Policy; Social-Life; Teacher-Alienation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Blacks-; *Hispanic-Americans; *Job
Satisfaction; *Minority-Groups; *Racial-Bias; *Teacher
Attitudes
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