scholarly journals Taking Responsibility for Educational Equity in Higher Education: A College Attainment Program for Underserved Young Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
College Attainment ◽  
Taking Responsibility

Textbook Popery

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public School ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right ◽  
School Movement

By the 1840s, convent narratives gained more middle-class, respectable readers, moving away from descriptions of sex and sadism and focusing instead on convent schools and the education of young women. Popular works such as Protestant Girl in a French Nunnery described "tricks" used by nuns to convert female pupils and lure them into convents. Such literature warned that as neither wives nor mothers, nuns could not train the right kind of women for America. The focus on convent schools converged with the common or public school movement. At the same time, teaching became an acceptable occupation for women, prompting more women to seek opportunities for higher education. This chapter compares the approach to education among nuns and other female teachers alongside the caricatures of convent schools in anti-Catholic print culture. I seek to answer why convent schools faced such heightened animosity even as teaching became feminized.

Examining the Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Academic Performance: Implications for Diversity and Equity in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 152102512110538
Author(s):  
Heather Mechler ◽  
Kathryn Coakley ◽  
Marygold Walsh-Dilley ◽  
Sarita Cargas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on the experience of food insecurity among students at higher education institutions. Most of the literature has focused on undergraduates in the eastern and midwestern regions of the United States. This cross-sectional study of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at a Minority Institution in the southwestern United States is the first of its kind to explore food insecurity among diverse students that also includes data on gender identity and sexual orientation. When holding other factors constant, food-insecure students were far more likely to fail or withdraw from a course or to drop out entirely. We explore the role that higher education can play in ensuring students’ basic needs and implications for educational equity.

Broke and Book-Bound

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Jay Watts ◽  
Gisele Brown ◽  
Michael A. Couch II
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
College Attainment ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Impact

Education has been historically branded as a tool to transcend conditions that have aided and abetted systems of generational and societal inequities. During a global pandemic, there has been no greater challenge to this view than considering the impact of life-altering events and their implications on higher education, success, and thriving. Specifically, the COVID-19 crisis has put this health-based issue on an international stage, but more specifically, spotlighting how it has exacerbated issues such as poverty, hunger, homelessness, and educational attainment. This chapter will examine the existing literature around the issue of global pandemics on college attainment for college students who are resource and access-gapped and best practices to consider to support holistic success during a global pandemic.

Staying in Place or Moving Forward? Young Women’s Imagined Futures and Aspirations for Mobility in Care Work

Young ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-346
Author(s):  
Emma Lamberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Practical Nurse ◽  
Vocational Nursing

This article analyses how the culturally widespread incitements to become aspirational and mobile are negotiated by young women in the vocational nursing education in Finland. Drawing on interviews with final year students, the article examines their imagined futures and asks how lived inequalities shape their aspirations and possibilities of navigating the neoliberalising care labour market that is marked by stark hierarchies and diminishing resources. The paper finds that the participants’ aspirations were characterised by the considerations of whether to remain as a practical nurse or to move forward to higher education. Yet, while some women were able to adopt a strong ethos of moving forward, others were more likely to be seen as fixed in place in auxiliary care work. The article pushes forward the debate on youth aspirations and mobility by unpacking the lived contradictions that shape the aspirations of young women entering the lower end of the care labour market.

scholarly journals Boomerang Behaviour and Emerging Adulthood: Moving Back to the Parental Home and the Parental Neighbourhood in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 919-945
Author(s):  
Jenny Olofsson ◽  
Erika Sandow ◽  
Allan Findlay ◽  
Gunnar Malmberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Course Changes

Abstract This paper makes two original contributions to research on young adults’ boomerang mobility. First, it reveals the magnitude and complexity of return moves by young people to their parental home and neighbourhood. Secondly, it shows that the determinants and associates of return migration vary significantly when analysed at two different geographical scales—the parental home and the parental neighbourhood area. Using longitudinal data (1986–2009) on four cohorts of young adults, we find that boomeranging to the parental home in Sweden has increased in times of economic recession and is associated with economic vulnerability, such as leaving higher education or entering unemployment, and partnership dissolution. While returning to the parental home can offer financial support in times of life course reversal, we found gender differences indicating a greater independence among young women than men. Returning to the parental neighbourhood is found to be a very different kind of mobility than returning to co-reside with one’s parents, involving the migration decisions of more economically independent young adults. Results also indicate that returns to the parental neighbourhood, as well as returns to the parental home, can be part of young people’s life course changes.

scholarly journals Introduction: Young women in Europe in the era of ‘first-wave’ feminisms: analyses of generation and gender

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-345
Author(s):  
MARY JO MAYNES
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Elementary Schooling ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Phase

During the course of the nineteenth century, the parameters defining ‘youth’, marking its beginning and its end, were becoming more precise and more institutionally defined for both girls and boys in Europe. More than any other phenomenon or institution, elementary schooling (and leaving school) contributed to a certain ‘normalization’ of the life cycle for young people. By the end of the nineteenth century, most girls as well as boys attended school at least intermittently until at least age 12 or 13; at school-leaving a new phase of life began. Throughout much of Europe a select minority of middle-class and upper-class young women joined their brothers at universities, as higher education became first a possibility and then a routine for them in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals 10 Things to Know About the Shape of Ohio's Skilled Workforce15

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Timothy Dunne ◽  
Guhan Venkatu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
The State ◽  
College Attainment ◽  
Younger Workers ◽  
Workforce Skills

A region’s economic performance is closely linked to the skills and knowledge of its workforce. Using college attainment as a measure of workforce skills, we examine overall trends in higher education to get a sense of where Ohio stands relative to other states. The data reveal that Ohio has made some progress, especially in improving educational attainment in its younger workers. At the same time, Ohio lags in a number of other dimensions, in particular, in its overall level of college attainment and in attracting educated workers into the state.

scholarly journals Women, Education and Employment in Saudi Arabia: an Example of Multiple Modernities

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-93
Author(s):  
Talha Fadaak ◽  
Ken Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Women In The Workforce ◽  
Education And Employment

This paper uses official statistics and previous research by Saudi scholars, but mainly our own evidence from 23 interviews during 2015 and 2016 with 25-35-year-old males and females, to explain why modernisation is Saudi Arabia, which includes the diversification of its economy and a huge expansion in higher education for males and females, is unlikely to lead to a higher proportion of women in the workforce. This is because the total number of jobs in the country is unlikely to increase, and opportunities for women are likely to remain limited not only by employers’ hiring preferences and practices but also by the limited range of jobs that young women and their families consider acceptable. Thus rather than following the same modernizing path as Western societies, Saudi Arabia will add to the examples of multiple modernities.

scholarly journals Penyuluhan Pentingnya Pendidikan Untuk Perempuan Millenial

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Nurdiyana Nurdiyana
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
College Knowledge ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
University Level ◽  
Interest And Knowledge

Education can improve the standard of living for the better. The need for the importance of education does not only belong to men, women also have the same opportunity to study up to university level. But the reality is that not all women can go to college. Problems related to lack of interest and knowledge of the importance of education were found in Sasak Village, especially for the problem of education for young women there, most of whom only completed education only to the high school / equivalent level. To overcome this, activities need to be held to educate about the importance of education. The method used in this activity is expository, namely in the form of material delivery verbally and social approach, namely looking at the educational background of the community in delivering the material. The results obtained in this activity were that the community's insight increased more about the importance of education, because previously they assumed that women did not have to study until college. Knowledge gained by the community in this activity can motivate teenagers to be able to continue their education to college, and can change the views of parents about the importance of education. It is expected that counseling activities on the importance of education will be sustained supported by the participation of all citizens and the role of the Regional Government to be able to facilitate local people so that they can have the opportunity to continue their education to higher education.

scholarly journals Choice or no choice? The need for better branded public sector condoms in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ashmore ◽  
Ruth Henwood
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
South African ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Routine Data ◽  
Risk Of Infection ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Hiv Epidemic

Condoms are one of the cornerstones to any response to the HIV epidemic. However, targetedmarketing strategies that make condoms more attractive to people at high risk of infection areoften overlooked. The South African National Department of Health has recently purchasedmore attractive condoms to distribute in higher-education settings free of charge, targeting atriskyouth including young women. The authors applaud this move but note the importance ofexpanding better branded condoms to young people elsewhere – for example, via youth clinicsand in high schools. Exploratory, routine data from Médecins Sans Frontières in Khayelitshaare presented, showing the popularity of alternatives to the government’s ‘Choice’ brand.

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