The Strategies and Struggles of Graduate Diversity Officers in the Recruitment of Doctoral Students of Color

Griffin, Kimberly A.; Muñiz, Marcela M.

doi:10.1080/10665684.2011.540961

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“…Weidman (1989) emphasizes academic aptitude prior to college as well as students’ formal academic socialization within their major departments as important in predicting their development of future aspirations. This relationship is expected given that graduate programs base admission decisions upon students’ academic record and their likelihood of success as a graduate student (Griffin & Muniz, 2011). …”

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Making a Difference in Science Education

Eagan¹,

Hurtado²,

Chang³

et al. 2013

American Educational Research Journal

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To increase the numbers of underrepresented racial minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), federal and private agencies have allocated significant funding to undergraduate research programs, which have been shown to students’ intentions of enrolling in graduate or professional school. Analyzing a longitudinal sample of 4,152 aspiring STEM majors who completed the 2004 Freshman Survey and 2008 College Senior Survey, this study utilizes multinomial hierarchical generalized linear modeling (HGLM) and propensity score matching techniques to examine how participation in undergraduate research affects STEM students’ intentions to enroll in STEM and non-STEM graduate and professional programs. Findings indicate that participation in an undergraduate research program significantly improved students’ probability of indicating plans to enroll in a STEM graduate program.

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confidence: 99%

Making a Difference in Science Education

Eagan¹,

Hurtado²,

Chang³

et al. 2013

American Educational Research Journal

414

171

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“…Participants were asked to recommend other potential respondents, who were then contacted by the researchers and invited to participate. Institutions employ different graduate diversity recruitment strategies; some have centralized positions in the Graduate School, while others have multiple positions throughout the institution, located in specific colleges and departments (Griffin & Muniz, 2011). Thus, some GDOs in our sample are employed at the same institutions, referred as potential participants by their colleagues on the same campus.…”

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“…This study focuses on administrators' perceptions and engagement in the process of implementing various diversity recruitment strategies in graduate education. Rather than identifying which strategies are more or less effective (Griffin & Muniz, 2011) or the influence of internal and external factors on diversity recruitment strategies (Griffin, Muniz, & Espinsoa, 2012), this study focuses on defining the recruitment process itself and understanding how diversity is considered within that process. Better understanding of the nuances of the recruitment process, including the challenges and opportunities for influence, is important to promoting greater success as institutions in the United States seek to increase diversity in their graduate student communities.…”

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Rethinking the Structure of Student Recruitment and Efforts to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Doctoral Education

Griffin

Muñiz

2015

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While researchers, institutional leaders, and policymakers have made significant progress towards increasing undergraduate student diversity in the United States, diversity in graduate education has been less often studied and a more challenging goal on which to make progress. This qualitative study explores the roles and work of graduate diversity officers (GDOs) in student recruitment activities with a focus on how race and issues of diversity manifest and influence this process. Interviews with fourteen GDOs at 11 different research universities in the United States highlight the phases in the graduate recruitment process, the manner in which diversity is considered at each stage, and GDOs’ perceptions of their ability to shape this process. Findings suggest that GDOs are important institutional agents in diversification efforts; however, faculty engagement and broad institutional commitment are required to increase diversity in graduate education due to GDOs’ often limited involvement in the admissions stage of the recruitment process, where race becomes the most salient in decision making.

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“…In academic graduate programs, faculty assume responsibility for selecting students and awarding aid, but rarely do they coordinate their efforts with those of university and graduate school administrators, who typically take responsibility for outreach and recruitment activities aimed at increasing the pool of minority and female applicants (Griffin & Muñiz 2011, Posselt 2015b). This disconnect undermines the efforts of both parties, and contrasts with the highly centralized social organization of enrollment management in most medical and law schools.…”

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Graduate Education and Social Stratification

2017

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Graduate and professional education play an increasingly important role in economic inequality and elite formation in the United States, but sociologists have not subjected stratification in and through graduate education to the same level of scrutiny recently applied to undergraduate and sub-baccalaureate education. In this review, we discuss how prominent stratification theories might be extended to studies of the role of graduate and professional education, and we review research about stratification at junctures along student pathways into and through postbaccalaureate education to the labor market. Especially in doctoral and professional education, we find persistent stratification, including pronounced educational inheritance and disparities in participation and degree attainment by race/ethnicity and gender. We propose future directions for inquiry, highlighting unanswered questions and conceptual issues concerning how the field of and pathways through postbaccalaureate education contribute to social stratification.

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The Strategies and Struggles of Graduate Diversity Officers in the Recruitment of Doctoral Students of Color

Cited by 34 publications

References 18 publications

Making a Difference in Science Education

Making a Difference in Science Education

Rethinking the Structure of Student Recruitment and Efforts to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Doctoral Education

Graduate Education and Social Stratification

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