Divergent Approaches to Access: How Selective College Admissions Offices Recruit Lower-Income, First-Generation, and Working-Class Students

In recent years, selective colleges and universities have made diversifying their student bodies a top priority, yet the class diversity on these campuses has barely shifted. While most research on class disparities in college admissions focuses on student explanations, this study seeks to understand how campus admissions approaches to recruitment may also contribute to why so few lower-income, first-generation, and/or working-class students (LIFGWC students) attend selective colleges. To address this question, we conducted interviews with seven admissions officers from selective campuses with both relatively strong and weak records of LIFGWC students recruitment. Institutions with stronger records of recruiting LIFGWC students actively sought out new initiatives to make their college more accessible for LIFGWC students, and these actions were motivated by a shared focus on improving larger societal inequality. Although campuses with weaker records also expanded their recruitment strategies, their efforts were often piecemeal and motivated by competition for students and institutional rankings rather than a larger mission to improve diversity and equity. These findings suggest that institutional missions and philosophies are central to increasing access.

Bridging the Gap Between Secondary and Tertiary Education for Students with Refugee Backgrounds with Bourdieu

Although progress has been made in increasing access at the primary and secondary level, only 1% of youth with refugee backgrounds are enrolled in tertiary education compared to 36% globally. Recent research suggests that tertiary education is fundamental in restoring dignity, security and hope for students with refugee backgrounds as well as preventing engagement with harmful fundamentalist ideologies. Given these potential benefits it is essential to better understand the barriers and develop initiatives to improve participation of students with refugee backgrounds in tertiary education. The main challenges faced by such students in Malaysia are a lack of information about existing opportunities, poor knowledge of the application process and insufficient soft skills required to gain access. This paper presents a case study of the CERTE Bridge Course in Malaysia, which was designed to address the above challenges and ‘bridge’ the gap between secondary and tertiary education for students with refugee backgrounds. Bourdieu’s theory of capital, habitus and field is used to explore the impact of the CERTE Bridge Course on participant’s success in achieving access to higher education. The research used pre- and post-surveys with each cohort to understand educational attainment, goals and interests and allow participants to self-assess development in soft skills. It is argued that the CERTE Bridge Course helped students navigate access to higher education by providing ways for them to develop social capital through improved communication skills and access to a network of sympathetic higher education admissions officers. Students also developed cultural capital and developed their habitus in a way that allowed them to negotiate access by presenting their skills in more recognisable ways in the field of higher education in Malaysia. Finally, the research highlights several immovable barriers in the field and identifies lesser discussed forms of capital, such as aspirational and resilience, as playing an important role in facilitating access.

People versus Policies: Decision-makers have divergent preferences for decisions about individuals and equivalent policies that affect individuals

Across nine main studies (N = 7,024) and nine supplemental studies (N = 3,279), we find that people make systematically different choices when choosing between individuals and choosing between equivalent policies that affect individuals. In college admissions and workplace hiring contexts, we randomly assigned participants to select one of two individuals or choose one of two selection policies. People were significantly more likely to choose a policy that would favor a disadvantaged candidate over a candidate with objectively higher achievements than they were to favor a specific disadvantaged candidate over a specific candidate with objectively higher achievements. We document these divergent choices among admissions officers, working professionals, and lay people, using both within-subject and between-subject designs, and across a range of stimuli and decision contexts. We find evidence that these choices diverge because thinking about policies causes people to rely more on their values and less on the objective attributes of the options presented, which overall, leads more people to favor disadvantaged candidates in selection contexts. This research documents a new type of preference reversal in important, real-world decision contexts, and has practical and theoretical implications for understanding why our choices so frequently violate our espoused policies.

The Differences of Improving Leukosit in Radiographers at Islamic Hospital Jemursari Surabaya

Introduction: Health development in Indonesia is influenced by the increasing needs and demands of the community to obtain quality health services. Progress in health service facilities as a form of the use of radiation beams. The utilization of radiation substances in the field of health care is a source of danger for radiation workers in the radiology department. X-ray radiation has an impact on human health, especially the health of radiographers. The purpose of this study was to analyze the increase in leukocytes due to X-ray radiation exposure in workers exposed (radiographers) with unexposed workers (admissions officers) at the Jemursari Islamic Hospital in Surabaya. Methods: This study used an analytic observational study, using a cross sectional research design, and the analysis used was the independent t-test and mann whitney. Research subjects numbered 18 respondents taken from the population in accordance with specified criteria. Result and Discussion: The results showed there was no difference between exposed workers (radiographers) and unexposed workers (admissions officers) on increased leukocytes due to X-ray radiation exposure. Lymphocyte variables were not significantly different (independent t-test p = 0.137), monocyte variable no significant difference (independent t-test p = 0.525), neutrophil variable no significant difference (independent t-test p = 0.137), eosinophil variable no significant difference (mann whitney p = 0.27), there is no significant difference in the basophile variable (independent t-test p = 0.738). Conclusion:X-ray radiation exposure does not affect the increase in leukocytes in the blood in radiology workers.

Have You Heard? Newsworthy items from the field

In a recent survey, 36% of college admissions officers said they viewed applicants’ social media profiles. As of the end of 2019, 14 U.S. states have begun requiring some form of media literacy education.

Administrasi Peserta Didik

Student administration is a process or activity undertaken for students ranging from planning student admission to students completing their education in order to achieve educational goals effectively and efficiently.The purpose of the administration of students in education is generally to regulate all activities related to students so that the learning process runs effectively and efficiently so that educational goals can be achieved to the maximum.In student administration there is a process or activity carried out by the administrator which is the beginning of the school year activities which include planning (determination of capacity, determination of the requirements of new students, formation of committees / admissions officers) and admission of new students. During the academic year which includes orientation activities for new students, rules of attendance of students, promotion and mutation of students, fostering discipline / school discipline, granting rewards and punishment. The end of the school year which carries out activities involving the implementation of the National Examination and grade promotion, and the dismissal of students from school due to graduation. In this article, the authors use the literature study method by collecting literature (material materials) sourced from books, journals, and other sources related to the science of student administration.