Factors Influencing College Choice By Out of-State Students

What motivates students to attend an out-or-state school? To find out the answer, two groups of students were surveyed. One group was attending with the financial assistance of a scholarship designed to recruit out-of-state scholars. The second group included students who matriculated via the general admissions process. Information was also compared by gender. Students\u27 perceptions of academic programs, campus climate, cost, and the influence of other people in their lives were examined. The overall academic program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UN-L), scholarships received, cost of tuition, and interest in a specific academic program were the major reasons why surveyed students chose to attend UN-L

A Pernicious Problem: The Absence of Women from Administrative Roles

In 1972 Title IX, the vaccine against gender inequity, was unveiled. Title IX is a federal law making sex discrimination in schools illegal. Under Title IX, sex bias is outlawed in school athletics, career counseling, medical services, financial aid, admission practices, and the treatment of students. In 1974, Congress passed the Women\u27s Educational Equity Act to fund research, materials, and training to help schools eliminate gender bias. In 1978, Congress broadened the Civil Rights Act to include educational services to eliminate gender bias. Under the redesigned civil rights legislation, ten sex desegregation assistance centers were created to assist teachers, parents, and students in developing nonsexist programs (Sadker & Sadker, 1994). In 1998, twenty-six years after the passage of Title IX, vestiges of gender inequity persist. Although issues concerning the underrepresentation of women in school administration have been addressed in the literature throughout the past 26 years, the problem persists. This chapter chronicles the history of the inequities, the barriers to women as administrators, and outlines the means of reducing the inequities