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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED180306 AUTHOR: Barger, Robert Newton
TITLE: The Necessity of Achieving a Balanced Ratio Between
Minority Faculty and Minority Students.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 7 p.; Paper presented at the Fall Meeting of the
Illinois Association of Teacher Educators (Northeastern
Illinois University, Chicago, IL, October 20, 1979)
ABSTRACT: The problem of achieving a balanced ratio between
minority faculty and minority students is discussed. Among
the five difficulties seen as a result of failure to
achieve a balanced faculty/student ratio are that minority
students will suffer from lack of role models, counseling
of minority students by sympathetic minority faculty will
be more difficult to achieve, and innovation and the
breaking of stereotypes will be hampered. It is contended
that federally mandated affirmative action programs have
largely failed to produce any of the desired results. An
appeal to institutional and individual self-interest is
proposed as a means to achieve a balanced minority ratio.
It is suggested that once faculty members understand that
the future of the programs and college units in which they
work are threatened by failure to achieve a balanced ratio,
motivation to bring about the necessary changes will
emerge. The legitimacy of the minority status of a
candidate as a factor in selection is proposed, and the
Bakke case is seen as a precedent for the approach. (PHR)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Change-Strategies; College-Faculty;
College Students; Higher-Education;
Minority-Group-Influences; Racial-Composition;
Racially-Balanced-Schools; Role-Models
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Minority-Groups;
*Minority-Group-Teachers; *Racial-Balance;
*Student-Teacher-Ratio
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