Measuring Glass Ceiling Effects in Higher Education

This volume offers readers a comprehensive means to understanding glass ceiling effects in higher education. Each chapter approaches the glass ceiling from a different perspective, providing compellingarguments that truly highlight the importance and usefulness of collecting data on this topic. Institutional decision makers will find valuable information to confront the challenge of glass ceiling effects across different institutional environments. Likewise, institutional researchers will find step-by-step protocols to collect and analyze glass ceiling data as well as a variety of rich examples. Readers will not only find this sourcebook useful for institutional planning purposes, but it will also help them truly understand how the glass ceiling impacts women and people of color in higher education.

This volume offers readers a comprehensive means to understanding glass ceiling effects in higher education. Each chapter approaches the glass ceiling from a different perspective, providing compellingarguments that truly highlight the importance and usefulness of collecting data on this topic.Institutional decision makers will find valuable information to confront the challenge of glass ceiling effects across different institutional environments. Likewise, institutional researchers will find step-by-step protocols to collect and analyze glass ceiling data as well as a variety of rich examples. Readers will not only find this sourcebook useful for institutional planning purposes, but it will also help them truly understand how the glass ceiling impacts women and people of color in higher education.

EDITORS' NOTES 1Jerlando F. L. Jackson, Elizabeth M. O'Callaghan, Raul A.Leon1. Using Salary as a Measure of Glass Ceiling Effects: Lessonsfor Institutional Researchers 13Vicki J. Rosser, Ketevan MamiseishviliThis chapter examines glass ceiling effects through the metricof salary equity.2. Using Critical Interpretive Lenses to Examine Glass CeilingEffects Through Qualitative Research25Lori D. Patton, Chayla M. HaynesThis chapter highlights the importance of qualitative approachesto studying the glass ceiling in contrast to exclusivelyquantitative measures.3. Approximating Glass Ceiling Effects Using Cross-SectionalData 37Jerlando F. L. Jackson, Elizabeth M. O'Callaghan, Ryan P.AdseriasThis chapter reviews methodological issues surrounding themeasurement of glass ceiling effects and summarizes findings fromone crosssectional analysis study.4. Faculty Diversity and the Traditions of Academic Governance49James T. MinorThis chapter explores eliminating faculty-related glass ceilingeffects through academic governance.5. Using Human Resource Software Technology to Mitigate GlassCeiling Effects in Higher Education: Interdisciplinary Applicationsfor Managing Diversity 63LaVar Jovan CharlestonThis chapter describes how software technology may be used as aninterdisciplinary approach to managing diversity in highereducation to mitigate glass ceiling effects.6. Organizational Learning as a Framework for Overcoming GlassCeiling Effects in Higher Education 75Damon A. WilliamsThis chapter centers on the challenges of translating glassceiling research findings into meaningful organizational changeinitiatives, moving from theory or scholarship to practice.7. Stellar Programs and Initiatives 85Raul A. LeonThis chapter serves as a resource for identifying selectedprograms and initiatives in higher education that demonstrate greatpromise in addressing glass ceiling effects in the workplace.INDEX 9