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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Admissions Policies at Women's Colleges

博士论文研究：女子学院的招生政策

基本信息

批准号：
1904304
负责人：
Sarah Ovink
金额：
$ 1.6万
依托单位：
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-03-15 至 2020-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1904304&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Admissions Policies

项目摘要

In the last few decades, many women's colleges have adopted admissions policies extending the opportunity for enrollment to more diverse groups of students. As such, women's colleges offer an important case to study diversity inclusion policies because these institutions must still rely on some form of exclusion criteria in order to remain a women's college. Yet, sociological research has overlooked examining the experiences of students within these institutions as such policies are implemented. This study asks how academic and social experiences of diverse students are shaped by more inclusive policies. Because college achievement, persistence, and student well-being in higher education remain unequal, this research will help policy makers within educational institutions as well as those with oversight responsibility to improve policies that contribute to positive educational outcomes. The findings will inform conversations regarding college admissions policies for students, with implications for studies of social opportunity and career prospects of students in the United States today. This project employs a year-long comparative ethnography of admissions policies at two women's colleges. They are geographically proximate to one another, have similar levels of student enrollment and were both founded in the late 19th century. Yet one has a reputation for more inclusivity and one has a reputation for less inclusivity in terms of admissions policies. This project will use three types of ethnographic methods. It will analyze over 30 years of archival records relevant to admissions to set the context for contemporary observations. The project also includes 9 months of participant observation and interviews with 120 diverse students, alumni, and employees at the two colleges to examine day-to-day institutional practices and conversations relevant to admissions. These data will be coded and analyzed with the use of qualitative coding software, Nvivo, followed by open and axial coding to detect themes in the data. Findings from this project will inform sociological theories regarding diverse participation in organizations, as well as theories related to educational diversity and social mobility.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在过去的几十年里，许多女子学院采取了招生政策，扩大了招生机会，招收更多不同群体的学生。因此，女子学院为研究多元化包容政策提供了一个重要的案例，因为这些机构为了保持女子学院的地位，仍然必须依赖某种形式的排除标准。然而，社会学研究忽视了在这些政策实施过程中对这些机构内学生的经历进行检查。这项研究询问了更具包容性的政策是如何塑造多元化学生的学术和社会经历的。由于大学成绩、坚持和学生在高等教育中的幸福感仍然不平等，本研究将有助于教育机构内的政策制定者以及那些负有监督责任的人改进有助于积极教育成果的政策。这些发现将为有关大学招生政策的讨论提供信息，对当今美国学生的社会机会和职业前景的研究具有启示意义。这个项目对两所女子学院的招生政策进行了为期一年的比较人种学研究。这两所大学地理位置相近，学生入学人数相似，都建于19世纪末。然而，就招生政策而言，一所学校的包容性更高，而另一所学校的包容性更低。这个项目将使用三种人种学方法。它将分析30多年来与招生相关的档案记录，为当代观察设定背景。该项目还包括为期9个月的参与性观察，并与两所大学的120名不同的学生、校友和员工进行访谈，以检查与招生相关的日常制度实践和对话。这些数据将使用Nvivo定性编码软件进行编码和分析，然后进行开放式和轴向编码，以检测数据中的主题。该项目的研究结果将为有关组织多元化参与的社会学理论，以及与教育多样性和社会流动性相关的理论提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。