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Friday, September 14, 2007

Oldfield publishes article

Kenneth Oldfield, professor emeritus of Public Administration, published "Expanding Economic Democracy in American Higher Education: A Two-Step Approach to Hiring More Teachers from Poverty- and Working-Class Backgrounds" in the July issue of the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, a refereed periodical published in Australia. Oldfield's article recommends informal and formal procedures current faculty can use to expand diversity within the professoriate, based on socioeconomic origins.