*Mark Your Calendars*
Young Scholars Writing Camp
6th -12th Graders
July 9 - 20, 2012
8:30am - 5:00pm
The Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality (RNREI) examines the sources of policies to remedy group based disparities in education, wealth, income, employment, politics, and health.
The Young Scholars Camp provides high school students an Advanced Placement styled curriculum in these subjects: Writing, Math, and Science & Technology. Middle school students will receive an honors curriculum. We anticipate that 10 middle school and up to 14 high school students will attend the camp this year, which will offer a high-level curriculum to students with the expectation that they will register for these types of classes upon returning to school in the fall.
This year's research topics include: racial wealth gap, new black middle class, race and hypertension, stereotype threat, the racial test score gap, black-Latino relations, and black immigrants to the US.
*Special Info for Camp*
Meet us at:
Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) (Beside Wells Fargo)
2024 West Main St.
Bay A, Room A103
Durham, NC 27708
Please wear school-appropriate clothes to camp (no tanks, short shorts)
Lunch, as well as all research and writing-related materials, will be provided free of charge.
Students will work with undergraduate students, hear from scholars, meet Duke professors and gain valuable exposure to college life. All students are expected to complete the following: College essay, resume, individual and group writing assignment, science paper, and a robotics exercise. Participants that do not finish during camp time will be expected to complete the assignment at home.
Please contact: Jackie Terrell at Terrell@duke.edu or (919) 681-4976
Mailing address: Research Network, Box 90420, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Camp is free. Lunch and snacks provided.
"Access, Competition, and For-Profit Higher Education"
September 21-22, 2012
Location: TBD
The Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University will hold an AERA conference entitled "Access, Competition, and For-Profit Higher Education" on September 21-22, 2012. This conference is sponsored by a grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
The goal of the conference will be to unify and extend available academic research on the social and economic impact, the cultural consequences, and the pedagogical implications of the rapid expansion and growth of for-profit institutions in higher education in the United States.
Objectives of Conference
This conference aims to:
1. Bring to bear interdisciplinary analysis on all facets of the social, political, economic, institutional, and cultural implications of for-profit higher education.
2. Define the existing body of research and make proposals for future research on for-profits.
3. Create a set of policy recommendations for individual researchers, universities, governmental and NGO agencies.
4. Create a methodological toolkit to facilitate the production of sound research on for-profits.
5. Produce a conference proposal, digital learning modules, and an outline for an edited volume.
Three plenary sessions will address: 1) history, scope, and contemporary research issues in the study of competition, access, and the role of for-profit degree-granting colleges and universities 2) the roles of public finance and regulation in for-profit higher education and, 3) methodological and measurement issues in for-profit research.
