Not exact matches
Freeman?s work suggests that plans to aggressively
recruit new graduate
students in the near future could have the opposite
of the desired effect in the long run, as
increased numbers of Ph.D. s will drive down salaries and therefore enrollments.
However, Davenport claims that the universities don't have the money to
recruit these faculty members, let alone provide adequate resources for their research activities or the
increased numbers of graduate
students that are also expected to be moving through the system.
And as the
student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that
students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white
students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to
increase the
number of teacher candidates
of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally
recruit high - achieving people
of color into the teaching profession.
A perfect storm appears to be well past the brewing stage, with
increasing student numbers, large - scale budget cuts, and one
of the most arduous periods in which to
recruit teachers.
There has been an
increase in the
number of Florida programs training teachers but that means the competition to
recruit education
students across the state has become stiffer.
Through this work, ConnCAN has emerged as a leading voice for education reform, built a base
of thousands
of supporters across the state and secured dozens
of policy wins including: the adoption
of rigorous education standards, more flexibility to
recruit great new teachers and a 50 - percent
increase in the
number of students enrolled in public charter schools.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Organized 42
student outreach programs, all
of them deemed successful in
recruiting the required
number of students • Created and implemented a series
of group orientations which assisted
students in the safe transition through college programs • Improved communication flow between departments which
increased operational efficiency
of recruitment efforts by 58 % • Planned and executed the details
of all recruitment events within set budgets, with leftover resources to be used for auxiliary recruitment efforts