SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION: COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY ATTITUDES TOWARD AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Titel:
SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION: COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY ATTITUDES TOWARD AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Auteur:
Schlesinger, Sue H.
Verschenen in:
Community college journal of research and practice
Paginering:
Jaargang 3 (1979) nr. 2 pagina's 111-119
Jaar:
1979-01
Inhoud:
Very little literature exists on faculty attitudes toward affirmative action, particularly community college faculty attitudes. This study seeks to characterize community college faculty supporters and opponents of affirmative action policies. In testing five hypotheses focusing on the variables of job security and job satisfaction, part-time status, age, sex, and value of equality, a nationwide sample of 1998 two-year college faculty were classified as either supporters or opponents of affirmative action. This carefully drawn sample, representative in terms of college locale, size, age, and emphasis, was the basis for a 1975 National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored study of 2-year college faculty, conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges. The findings of the study provide the following information in helping to characterize community college faculty supporters and opponents of affirmative action: Supporters tend to be female, part-timers, less secure in and less satisfied with their jobs. They are younger and value equality. Moreover, they are more likely to be working on their doctorate, and they tend to be overrepresented by Blacks as compared to the total population. In contrast, opponents tend to be male, full-timers, more secure in their jobs and more highly satisfied with them. They are older and do not value equality very highly. Finally, they do not tend to be working on their doctorates and are overrepresented by White/Caucasians as compared to the total population.
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