ERIC ED401225: Forty Years after Brown: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on the Recruitment and Retention of Minorities in Education. Proceedings of the National Conference on Recruitment and Retention of Minorities in Education (9th, Oswego, NY, April 9-

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Middleton, E., Ed.; And Others
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Forty Years after Brown: The Impact of Race and
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Ethnicity on the Recruitment and Retention of
Minorities in Education. Proceedings of the National
Conference on Recruitment and Retention of Minorities
in Education (9th, Oswego, NY, April 9-11, 1995).
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DESCRIPTORS *Black Teachers; *Career Choice; Educational
Environment; Elementary Secondary Education; Ethnic
Groups; Ethnicity; Higher Education; *Minority Group
Teachers; Preservice Teacher Education; Racial
Factors; *Teacher Persistence; *Teacher
Recruitment
African Americans
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
The proceedings identify, clarify, and address the
problems of the post-Brown era from a variety of perspectives. The
first two papers are: The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Banquet Keynote
Speech (L. J. Bennett) and the Luncheon Session, "Integrating the
Recruitment Preparation and Retention Strategies of Persons of Color
in Teaching" (J. Vaughn). Following these two presentations, 15
(1) "Strategies for Encouraging Minority High
papers are included:
School Students To Consider Teaching Careers: A Panel Presentation by
the Consortium for Minorities in Teaching Careers" (J. Braun, and
(2) "The Historically Black College, Ecological Psychology,
others);
and Higher Education's Changing Environment: Reconceptualizing
African American Student Retention" (M. C. Brown and R. W. Graham);
(3) "Career Intervention To Prepare African American Students for the
(4) "Perceptions of the
College Application Process" (V. Cotton);
College Experience: African American Students on a Predominantly
(5) "Mentoring across Culture in Teacher
White Campus" (R. D. Davis);
Education: A Cross-Cultural Perspective for Retaining Minority
Students in Teacher Education" (G. A. Doston); (6) "A Synopsis of the
African American Student Medical College Mentorship Program Model"
(7) "Recruitment of Minorities in Adult
.(L. Flannagan and S. Price);
(8) "Minority
Education: Strategies for a Changing World" (K. Matin);
Involvement in the Teaching Profession in South Georgia" (B. R.
(9) "'Apoyando': Encouraging Latinos To Enter the Teaching
McClain);
(10) "Voice of African-American Male
Profession" (B. Perez);
Administrators at Predominantly White Four-Year Institutions of
(11) "Nurturing a
Higher Education" (C. Pickron and J. Rasool);
Long-Distance Relationship: SUNY Oswego and Urban Education" (P.
(12) "On Improving the Retention Rate of African
Russo and J. Smith);
American Law Students: The Experiment and Experience at Duquesne
University School of Law" (K. Saunders); (13) "The Negative Effects
of Homogenization in Admission Requirements: Recognizing and
Validating Difference" (B. A. Sylvia); (14) "Retention of Minority
Teachers: .The Lehamn College Family Model" (V. M. Washington and E.
Weitz);
(15) "Alienation and Isolation vs. Retention" (C.
Y. Young).
Abstracts of eight additional papers are appended. Many papers
contain references. (ND)
RecnAmen.a and NigasnUon
Mnorrn.Rnes on EducaUon
"Forty Years After Brown: The hmpact
Race and
Ethnhtity on the Recndtment and
RetenUon
Minorities ion Education"
Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference
April 9-11, 1995
Edited by
Middleton, E., Basualdo, E., Bickel, F., Fleury, S.,
Gordon, H., Mason, E.
School of Education
State University of New York at Oswego
Oswego, New York
1996
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Recruitment and Retention of
Minorities in Education
"Forty Years After Brown: The Impact of
Race and
Ethnicity on the Recruitment and
Retention
of Minorities in Education"
Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference
April 9-11, 1995
Edited by
Middleton, E., Basualdo, E., Bickel, F., Fleury, S.,
Gordon, H., Mason, E.
School of Education
State University of New York at Oswego
Oswego, New York
1996
CONTENTS
Acknowledgement
vi
Forward
vii
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Banquet
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lerone J. Bennett
1
Luncheon Session: Integrating the Recruitment Preparation and
Retention Strategies of Persons of Color in Teaching
Joe Vaughn
9
Strategies for Encouraging Minority High School Students to Consider
Teaching Careers: A Panel Presentation by the Consortium for
Minorities in Teaching Careers
Joseph Braun, Carol Felder, Maggie Lane,
Nydia Marini, Joan Kennedy,
and Theodoshia Woolfolk- Millette
20
The Historically Black College, Ecological Psychology, and Higher
Education's Changing Environment: Reconceptualizing
African American Student Retention
M. Christopher Brown and Robert W. Graham
33
Career Intervention to Prepare African American Students for the College
Application Process
Velma Cotton
52
Perceptions of the College Experience: African American Students on a
Predominantly White Campus
R. Deborah Davis
57
Mentoring Across Culture in Teacher Education: A Cross-Cultural
Perspective For Retaining Minority Students in Teacher
Education
Glenn Allen Doston
76
A Synopsis of the African American Student Medical College Mentorship
Program Model
L Flannagan and S. Price
84
iii
5
Recruitment of Minorities in Adult Education: Strategies for A Changing
World
89
Khadijah Matin
Minority Involvement in the Teaching Profession in South Georgia
93
Benjamin R. McClain
"Apoyandou: Encouraging Latinos to Enter the Teaching Profession
109
Bertha Perez
Voice of African-American Male Administrators at Predominantly White
Four-Year Institutions of Higher Education
119
Carlton Pickron and Joan Rasool
Nurturing a Long-Distance Relationship: SUNY Oswego And Urban
Education
137
Patricia Russo and Joyce Smith
On Improving the Retention Rate of African American Law Students: The
Experiment and Experience at Duquesne University School of
Law
155
Kurt Saunders
The Negative Effects of Homogenization in Admission Requirements:
Recognizing and Validating Difference
Barbara A. Sylvia
160
Retention of Minority Teachers: The Lehamn College Family Model
Valerie M. Washington and Elliot Weitz
169
Alienation and Isolation vs. Retention
182
Clara Y. Young
iv
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APPENDIX - ABSTRACTS
Urban School and Urban Univeriity Collaboration
ix
Richard K. Gordon
Innovative Recruitment and Retention of Minorities: A Case Study of
Vanderbilt University Summer Research Program for High
School Students and K-12 Science Teachers
Carolyn Ruth A. Williams
xiii
Advising Culturally Diverse Students: A Program Model for Retention
xiv
Emmanuel C. Nwagwu
A Successful Local School District/University Collaboration Program to
Encourage and Prepare Minority Students from Rural Areas to
Become Teachers
xv
Allene White Gold and Albert Kennedy
Factors That Influence Academic Achievement of High Achieving
Minority College Students
xvii
Carolyn Hamilton
Brown vs. Board of Education Forty Years Later: A Case Study of the
Cleveland City School District; A Focus on the Shortage of
Underrepresented Teachers
xix
Ferguson Meadows, John Heflin and Steve Michael
Admissions, Achievement, and Satisfaction: A Study of Traditionally
Underrepresented Students in Higher Education
xxii
Susan Mulvaney
University Teacher Educators and the Community Colleges: Why Turf
Battles Hinder Progress
xxiv
Bernice H. Willis
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are indebted to a number of people whose assistance was
vital to this project. First, we must thank SUNY Oswego's administration,
Stephen L. Weber, President and Provost Jane E. Mil ley, SUNY Central
administrator Frank Pogue, City School District of Oswego
Superintendents Lee Cravotta and Syracuse City School District
Superintendent Robert Di Florio, and NYACTE for encouraging and
supporting the efforts to bring the Ninth Annual Conference to Central
New York.
A project such as a conference and the accompanying edited
proceedings are necessarily the work of many people whose
contributions often go unnoticed. Further, providing credit to these
people is a task fraught with risk because so many have given unselfishly
of their time, talent, and resources with no intention of being rewarded
other than to see the conference's objectives met. Without these
individuals we simply would not have had a conference. We sincerely
hope to continue working with these sponsoring groups and agencies in
support of minority group members considering careers in the teaching
profession.
Mention should be made of Jacqueline Davis and Lamel
Flanagan of SUNY Central Administration who not only provided logistical
support but were of enormous help as we organized our thoughts. We
spent numerous hours calling and identifying people throughout New
York to make the conference truly a collaborative effort of the state.
We gratefully record our obligation to those who have readily
responded to our appeals for expert guidance, particularly to Deborah
Stanley, Judy Genshaft, Randolph Williams, Dan Lowengard, Gloria
Robinson, Genia Hannah, Hugh Smith, Howard Gordon, Suzanne
Basualdo, Donna Kuhn, Jim LeFlore,Tom Gooding, and Rose Middleton.
We thank the conference participants. They came to central New
York with a sense of purpose that can only mean good things in the future
for minorities in education and for all people and our nation's schools.
Thanks to Adele DelSalvio, Xiao-Ping Fu, Diahann Edwards and Kolan
Bisbee for their efforts in copying, editing and layout design. Finally, our
thanks to Lorretta Beckwith who was the key figure in coordinating the
efforts of the conference and the proceedings.
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FOREWORD
The focus of the Ninth Annual Conference for the Recruitment
and Retention of Minorities in Education was an assessment of the impact
of race and ethnicity on the recruitment and retention of minorities in
education forty years after the classic case of Brown vs. Board of
Education. We at SUNY Oswego were very honored to be able to
sponsor the first annual conference to be held in New York State. The
participation of the many state and professional organizations concerned
about the lack of representation of minorities in education, their
recommendation of this conference to fellow institutions and their
positive feedback concerning the quality and the timeliness of the
conference indicate the successfulness of this endeavor.
The proceedings from this conference identify, clarify and
address the problems of the post-Brown era from a variety of
perspectives and not only deepen our insights but lead us to new
possibilities. Topics range from strategies for encouraging minority high
school students to consider careers in teaching to the recruitment of
minorities into the medical professions. Evidence from these
proceedings indicates that a great deal of creative and innovative thinking
is occurring in the recruitment and retention of under-represented
groups. It also indicates, however, the distance still left to travel. Readers
of Bertha Perez' thought-provoking keynote address on encouraging
Latinos to enter the field of teaching, Joe Vaughn's stimulating
discussion of strategies to integrate recruitment, preparation and
retention and Joe Aguerrebere's perspective on the national scene will
experience a sense of the depth and scope of the conference. An
expression of the energy and excitement generated by the conference is
found in Dr. Lerone Bennett's dynamic and insightful presentation.
We hope that those who read these proceedings will sense the
depth of coverage and intellectual intensity of the issues on which the
conference focused and will join us in mapping the future for minorities in
education.
Deborah Stanley
Interim President
SUNY Oswego
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Banquet
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lerone J. Bennett
Historian, Author, Poet, and Lecturer
We are under attack from so many quarters, from the white
academy, from the white media, from the right and the middle and the left,
and we need hope today almost as much as we need bread.
Everywhere I go in this country I hear men and women, educated
men and women, "liberals", question inequality and democracy in the
public school system. I believe that no greater tragedy can befall a
teacher or an educator today than to believe the lies and libels about poor
and disadvantaged youth and to lose faith in the possibilities of education
and the ultimate triumph of our cause. And we're going to win. We're
going to win if it takes another nine years or another ninety years.
For if slavery didn't destroy us, the "News" and old
segregationists are not going to destroy us. If segregation and lynching
didn't kill our spirit, the new slavery of dope and crime is not going to kill
our spirit.
I'm reminded, nine years after the founding of this organization
and forty years after Brown vs. Broad of Education, of the Langston
Hughes poem, "Still Here." This is the way it goes:
I've been scarred and battered,
my hopes to wind and scattered.
Snow has freezed me,
Sun has baked me,
Looks like in between
They done tried to make me
Stop laughing,
Stop loving,
Stop living,
But I don't care...
I'm still here.
After 400 years of the slave trade-- the greatest crime in recorded
history -- we're still here, and doing the electric slide, and running schools
of education. After 100 years of segregation and discrimination we're still
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