Examines the extent to which students’ precollege exposure to racial/ ethnic diversity moderates the relationships between college interracial interactions and student outcomes (such as (college satisfaction, emotional well-being, and race-related
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ClearHow Resource Inequality Among High Schools Reproduces Class Advantages in College Destinations
What is the role of schools’ resources in mediating the effects of family SES on students’ postsecondary destinations?
Activating Diversity: The Impact of Student Race on Contributions to Course Discussions
1) Are black students more likely than their white peers to bring up different issues or topics in these classes? If so, are there significant race differences in the degree to which students reference different sociological institutions, cultural symbols, and demographics categories?
2) Do students with different race backgrounds utilize different strategies or resources in these course discussions?
Hate Crimes on Campus: Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Campus Safety
Examines whether the racial/ethnic diversity of a college or university is related to the rate of racially/ethnically motivated hate crimes on campus.
Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Engineering
This study examines behavioral and intentional persistence among students who enter an engineering major in college.
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Collegiate Cognitive Gains: A Multilevel Analysis of Institutional Influences on Learning and its Equitable Distribution
Addresses whether racial/ethnic inequalities in academic performance that are present at college entry are moderated, exacerbated, or maintained during college and whether institutional attributes are associated with student learning.
Race, Gender, and Measures of Success in Engineering Education
To examine Engineering majors by race and gender and examine multiple metrics for “success.”
Learning Apart, Living Apart: The Lasting Impact of Perpetual Segregation
Extent to which neighborhoods’ % white is replicated across generations & the extent to which HS’ & colleges’ percent white mediates this relationship.
Persistence of Women and Minorities in STEM Field Majors: Is it the School that Matters?
Which factors contribute to persistence of all students in STEM field majors, and in particular the persistence of women and minorities?
Race and Academic Achievement in Racially Diverse High Schools
The authors investigate whether racially diverse high schools offer equality of educational opportunity to students from different racial and ethnic groups. This is examined by measuring the relative representation of minority students in advanced math classes at the beginning of high school and estimating whether and how this opportunity structure limits the level of achievement attained by African American and Latino students by the end of high school.
The Role of Schools, Families, and Psychological Variables on Math Achievement of Black High School Students
- What is the impact of school-, family-, and person-level affective or social psychological variables on math achievement for a nationally representative sample of Black high school students?
Social Reproduction of Inequality: The Racial Composition of Feeder Schools to the University of California
The extent to which there is unevenness in the rate at which individual UC campuses enroll first-time freshmen from HS that vary by racial comp.
Examining the STEM Educational Pipeline: The Influence of Pre-College Factors on the Educational Trajectory of African American students
1) What pre-college factors predict African-American students’ decision to engage in post-secondary education? 2) What pre-college factors predict African-American students’ decision to major in a STEM field? 3) What pre-college factors predict STEM degree attainment among African American students?
Academic Achievement in the First Year of College: Evidence of the Pervasive Effects of the High School Context
1) What are the unique effects of students’ demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, precollege academic performance, capital acquisition, and dimensions of the high school context on first year academic performance in college?
2) Do the effects of the high school context differ by students’ demographic or socioeconomic background characteristics?
How African American is the Net Black Advantage? Differences in College Attendance Among Immigrant Blacks, Native Blacks, and Whites
Investigates the reason that black high school graduates are more likely to attend college than white high school graduates, looking specifically at whether this advantage is driven by immigrant blacks who come from more privileged socioeconomic backgrounds.
Interracial Friendships in the Transition to College: Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together Once They Leave the Nest?
Examines formation of interracial friendships among college students by examining how friendship networks change during the transition from HS to college and explores racial composition of collegiate friendship networks for several racial groups.
Examining the Academic Success of Latino Students in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Majors
1) To what extent does cultural capital and cultural congruity affect the academic performance of Latino students’ majoring in STEM fields? 2) To what extent does campus climate, as measured through academic-related experiences of Latino students in STEM majors affect their academic performance?
African-American Students' College Transition Trajectory: An Examination of the Effect of High School Composition and Expectations on Degree Attainment
What is the relationship between highschool composition and students’ degree expectations and their effect on degree attainment for African-Americans?
Empahty or Antipathy? The Impact of Diversity
The consequences of intergroup interactions in one particular real-world context by examining whether attitudes and behaviors change when people of different races are randomly assigned to live together at the start of their first year of college.
The Educational Benefit of Sustaining Cross-Racial Interaction Among Undergraduates
Examine the student -and institution- level effects of one key form of diversity – cross-racial interaction.
Gender-Specific Effects of Ecological Segregation on College Achievement
Specify a comprehensive path model estimated separately fro male and female respondents to the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen.
The Impact of Group Diversity on Performance and Knowledge Spillover- An Experiment in a College Classroom
Examined how group characteristics affect productivity.
The Effect of Childhood Segregation on Minority Academic Performance at Selective Colleges
Effects of housing and school segregation during childhood on academic performance in college.
Addressing Institutional Inequities in Education: The Case of Advanced Placement Courses in California
Evaluate equality of opportunities that students of different races/ethnicities/social classes & communities have to participate in AP courses in CA.
How Desegregation Changed Us: The Effects of Racially Mixed Schools on Students and Society
Ideas of graduates, educators, advocates and local policy makers who were directly involved in racially mixed public high schools 25 years ago.
Effects of Racial Diversity on Complex Thinking in College Students
Measure the impact of racial diversity on the complexity of thinking in college students.
How Does Racial/Ethnic Diversity Promote Education?
Explores the relationship between students’ experiences with diverse peers in collegiate settings and their educational outcomes.
Diversity in Higher Education: Theory and Impact in Educational Outcomes
Explore relationship between students’ experiences with diverse peers in the college or university settings and their educational outcomes.
Students' Precollege Preparation for Participation in a Diverse Democracy
How students’ precollege experiences predisposed them to 3 democratic outcomes.
The Positive Educational Effects of Racial Diversity on Campus
Link between diversity and positive educational outcomes.
Diversity and Legal Education: Student Experiences in Leading Law Schools
Explore the impact of diversity by asking students how it has influenced their educational experiences.
Is Campus Racial Diversity Correlated with Educational Benefits?
Refute the contrary claim that racial diversity confers educational benefits for all admitted students.
Race and General Cognitive Ability: The Myth of Diminishing Returns to Education
The impact of education on racial differences in general cognitive ability.
Linking Diversity and Educational Purpose: How the Diversity of the Faculty and Student Body May Impact the Classroom Environment and Student Development
Examines the consequences of having a diverse student body and diverse faculty on student outcomes at predominantly white, four year institutions.
Matchmaking: The Dynamics of High School Tracking Decisions
Examines how educators frame tracking decisions.
School Racial Composition and College Attendance Revisited
Direct effects of school racial composition on college attendance when introducing curriculum and grades and relocating the test scores.
School Racial Composition and Black College Attendance and Achievement Test Performance
What are the processes by which different methods of desegregation affect different types of students on different kinds of outcomes?