Academic pipeline programs are critical to effectively support the steady increase of diverse students entering the academy. Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Bachelor's to the Professoriate describes best practices of successful academic government and privately funded pre-collegiate, collegiate, graduate, and postdoctoral/faculty development pipeline programs. The authors explore 21 hallmark academic pipeline programs using their THRIVE index: Type, History, Research, Inclusion, Identity, Voice, and Expectation. The final chapter of the book offers information for using and starting similar programs. The appendix offers an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) mapped database of programs using the THRIVE index. This book will equip parents, high school counselors, college advisors, faculty, department chairs, and higher education administrators to identify academic pipeline programs that fit their needs. Readers will also learn about how academic pipeline programs are situated within an institutional or organizational change model.

Academic pipeline programs are critical to effectively support the steady increase of diverse students entering the academy. Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Bachelor's to the Professoriate describes best practices of successful academic government and privately funded pre-collegiate, collegiate, graduate, and postdoctoral/faculty development pipeline programs. The authors explore 21 hallmark academic pipeline programs using their THRIVE index: Type, History, Research, Inclusion, Identity, Voice, and Expectation. The final chapter of the book offers information for using and starting similar programs. The appendix offers an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) mapped database of programs using the THRIVE index. This book will equip parents, high school counselors, college advisors, faculty, department chairs, and higher education administrators to identify academic pipeline programs that fit their needs. Readers will also learn about how academic pipeline programs are situated within an institutional or organizational change model.

Examines the relationship between the law and the school-to-prison pipeline, argues that law can be an effective weapon in the struggle to reduce the number of children caught, and discusses the consequences on families and communities.

This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the school-to-prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate—and suggests practical remedies for change. How is racism perpetuated by the education system, particularly via the "school-to-prison pipeline?" How is the school to prison pipeline intrinsically connected to the larger context of the prison industrial complex as well as the extensive and ongoing criminalization of youth of color? This book uniquely describes the system of policies and practices that racialize criminalization by routing youth of color out of school and towards prison via the school-to-prison pipeline while simultaneously medicalizing white youth for comparable behaviors. This work is the first to consider and link all of the research and data from a sociological perspective, using this information to locate racism in our educational systems; describe the rise of the so-called prison industrial complex; spotlight the concomitant expansion of the "medical-industrial complex" as an alternative for controlling the white and well-off, both adult and juveniles; and explore the significance of media in furthering the white racial frame that typically views people of color as "criminals" as an automatic response. The author also examines the racial dynamics of the school to prison pipeline as documented by rates of suspension, expulsion, and referrals to legal systems and sheds light on the comparative dynamics of the related educational social control of white and middle-class youth in the larger context of society as a whole.

Anthology of articles from Aztlâan: A Journal of Chicano Studies that focus on the education of Chicana/os and Latina/os. Articles appeared in the journal between 1973 and 2014.

Healthcare disparities are the unequal health outcomes of specific groups of the population based on race, ethnicity, culture, or country of origin. Of the many strategies researched that disable and reduce these disparities are to increase the diversity of the healthcare workforce. Medical pipeline programs targeting underrepresented minorities play a key role in increasing medical workforce diversity. Some colleges, universities, medical education institutions and secondary schools have these medical pipeline programs aimed at equipping underrepresented minorities with the tools necessary to gain medical school acceptance. The objective of this study was to identify medical pipeline programs in existence that optimized underrepresented minorities matriculation to medical school. In such, this study was designed to compare and identify the relative effectiveness between three types of medical pipeline programs, K-12 level, college/university level, and post-baccalaureate level. This study also identified characteristics of effective medical pipeline programs and hopes to further the knowledge base used for evaluating medical pipeline programs targeting underrepresented minorities in medicine. This study employed two methodologies to collect data: survey instrumentation and personal interviews (transcript review). An optional online survey was distributed through the College of California's Medical School office of diversity and volunteer participants were selected from this sample for personal interviews. Almost two-thirds of underrepresented minority medical students participated in some form of medical pipeline program, which they reported as having helped them gain admission into medical school. Less than 30% of students participated in college/university level pipeline program; however, greater than 70% indicated they believed college/university level type of programs to be the most effective type of pipeline program for preparing underrepresented minorities for acceptance into medical school. The large majority of students reported a strong motivational influence from a college level professor or advisor. Lastly, interview transcripts indicated the most powerful components for pipeline programs are the advising ones (academic, financial, medical school admissions, and life issues).

Arguing that higher education can play a unique role in addressing the fundamental divisions in our society and economy by supporting individuals in reaching their full potential, the authors have developed a provocative guide for higher education leaders who want to promote healthy and productive campus communities.