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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: 54-05397 AUTHOR: Pondrom, Cyrena N.
TITLE: Setting priorities in developing an affirmative
action program.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
JOURNAL: Journal-of-Medical-Education; 1975 May Vol 50(5)
427-434
ABSTRACT: "Affirmative action" programs call for special
activities to ensure that women and minorities participate
in employment and educational opportunities in the numbers
in which qualified members of these groups are represented
in the nation or community. 6 kinds of activities should
receive priority in establishing a medical school
affirmative action program: (a) review of salaries for
equity; (b) establishment of goals for hiring in both
faculty and nonfaculty jobs; (c) review of admissions
criteria to assure that women and minorities are not
required to meet a higher standard than white males and to
include accurate predictors of the success of applicants
from these groups; (d) survey of physical facilities to
assure that lounges and facilities for women are equivalent
in quality and convenience to those available to men; (e)
examination of employment and instructional policies to
identify any which have a "disparate effect" on the success
of women and minorities, and modification of such policies
wherever alternatives are possible; and (f) review of
staff, student, and administrative attitudes to assure that
the institutional atmosphere conveys support of equal
opportunity. It is concluded that success in accomplishing
each of these priorities will build a basis for success in
other aspects of the equal opportunity program. (PsycLIT
Database Copyright 1975 American Psychological Assn, all
rights reserved)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: MINORITY-GROUPS; HUMAN-FEMALES; MEDICAL
EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL-PROGRAMS; SOCIAL-EQUALITY; CIVIL
RIGHTS-MOVEMENT
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