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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED225459 AUTHOR: Moore, Kathryn M.
TITLE: Women and Minorities. Leaders in Transition: A
National Study of Higher Education Administrators.
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1982)
NOTE: 64 p.
AVAILABILITY: Center for the Study of Higher Education,
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
ABSTRACT: Career issues, educational concerns, and the
professional, educational, and personal backgrounds of 2,896
senior college administrators were studied, with focus on
the status of women and minorities. Women represented 20
percent of the sample; minorities, 8 percent. Women and
minorities were largely registrars, librarians, and
financial aid directors; men were largely presidents, chief
business officers, and registrars. Of the 653 deans, 90
(13.8 percent) were women, and over half of the women deans
were in the fields of nursing, home economics, arts and
sciences, and continuing education. In addition, 5.5 percent
of the deans were minorities. Men were more likely to hold
new positions than women, and higher percentages of men held
academic rank compared to women; 87.8 percent of male
administrators were currently married, and 43.7 percent of
the women were. Career mobility issues did not differ
significantly for men and women, but slightly higher
percentages of minorities and women were seeking a job
change in comparison to whites and men. Minority respondents
felt that major increases had taken place in their
opportunities for professional advancement and personal
autonomy. The greatest future concerns for both whites and
minorities were student recruitment and retention.
Minorities were more concerned about affirmative action than
were whites, and both minorities and whites agreed that if
fiscal matters deteriorated, athletics should be cut first.
(SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Rank-Professional; Administrator
Characteristics; Administrator-Qualifications; Comparative
Analysis; Deans-; Educational-Change; Higher-Education;
Individual-Characteristics; Males-; Mentors-; National
Surveys; Occupational-Mobility; Whites-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrator-Attitudes; *College
Administration; *Educational-Background; *Females-;
*Minority-Groups; *Sex-Differences
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