What Actually Works? The One-to-One Approach
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This article describes five ideas that, especially when undertaken together, seem to help minorities and women thrive better in academe. The five ideas are: commitment and action by the top administration; one-to-one recruitment of minorities and women; one-to-one mentoring; individual responsibility for networks; and a complaint system that works for individuals.
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1989Publisher
American Council on Education/Macmillan
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Mary P. Rowe, “What Actually Works? The One-to-One Approach,” in Educating the Majority: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, eds. Carol S. Pearson, Donna L. Shavlik, and Judith G. Touchton (American Council on Education/Macmillan, 1989), 375-384.
Keywords
mentoring, women, racial minorities, women in higher education, racial minorities in higher education, diversity, equal opportunity, networks, complaint systems