'Controlled' School Choice: Understanding Educational Decision Making for Families of Low Socioeconomic Status and/or Minority Backgrounds

Champaign School District, Discrimination, Education

Study based on the "school choice program" part of the consent decree, in the Champaign Unit 4 School District.

Kathryn D. Kurlakowsky

dissertation, Psychology, University of Illinois

2005

A History of Disadvantaged Student Education in Illinois: A Critical Inquiry of Adult Education at a Public Comprehensive Community College, 1976-1996

Community College, Discrimination, Parkland

Study based on research at Parkland Community College.

Eric Vaughn Blacknall

dissertation, Education

2003

African American College Students' Attitudes Toward Identity, Culture, and Curriculum

Attitudinal, Campus-Community Relations

Ronald Stephen Rochon

dissertation, Education, University of Illinois

1997

A Study of the Desegregation Plan of Urbana School District 116 Elementary Schools: From the Beginning of Implementation to the Present

Desegregation, Education, Civil Rights

Dr. Preston Lee Williams, Jr.

dissertation, Education, University of Illinois

2000

Graduate School Success of Black Students from White Colleges and Black Colleges

UIUC, Black Students

This study compares the academic performance of black
American graduate students who graduated from traditionally black
colleges (Group A) with the academic performance of black American
graduate students who graduated from historically white colleges
(Group B). The study also presents data on the relationship between
undergraduate grade point average and graduate school grade point
average. No significant difference was found between Group A and
Group B on mean graduate grade point average, retention rate, or
graduation rate. There was a positive correlation between undergraduate
and graduate grade point averages for Group A and Group B
within each of four fields of study and for the total group.

Ernest F. Anderson and Freeman A. Hrabowski

The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 48, No. 3

Ohio State University Press

1977

This Life Ain't Gravy

Mentoring, Big Brothers Big Sisters,

From the book's back cover: This Life Ain’t Gravy follows the experiences of Justin, an African American teenager, and his white mentor Dylan. While Justin is struggling through junior high and high school in Champaign, Illinois, Dylan is taking classes at the University of Illinois. The disconnect between their lives becomes apparent in Justin’s illiteracy, delinquency and life in a single-parent household, but they develop an enduring relationship by eating, reading and playing basketball together. As certain obstacles in Justin’s life prove too difficult to overcome, Justin and Dylan find strength in a bond that provides both with something more powerful than their perceived individual limitations.

Dylan Hall

Liwalo na Liwe

2009

A Commemorative History of Champaign County Illinois: 1833-1983

Champaign County

Look for Blacks in index for references to African-American history at the County-wide level.

Patricia Miller and Willis C. Baker

Illinois Heritage Association

1983

Douglas Community Center: Its History and Development and the Place of Its Program in the Community

Community Centers, Douglas Center, Recreation

Thesis in Social Work with a history on the background of the Douglas Center and an overview of its programs, organization and finances. Includes a chronology of the Douglas Center as appendix.

Alice Elizabeth Andrews

University of Illinois Library

Unpublished thesis

1945

Drug Selling: A Rational Choice

Drugs, North End, Crime, Gangs

Research based on years of data collection and analysis in Champaign-Urbana. From chapter: "In this chapter, the facts and conditions in the optimistic scene we
have just painted change. Instead of a bright employment future and its
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lifelong benefits, what would your course of life be if you were born into a
community- socially and economically isolated from the community that
has all of the good jobs? Adding to community isolation, let us propose
you were in your early twenties and had a poor education (less than high
school) or a low level of education (high school) and no opportunities to
gain employment training or a job within your own community. If you
could secure a job in the main community, it would be a low-paying,
dead-end j ob with no benefits. Further, let us propose that you commonly
use drugs like marijuana, belong to a youth gang, and have been arrested
many times. Enhancing that dismal scene, your parents have drug and
alcohol dependency and/or addiction, poor levels of education, poor
to mediocre employment histories, are most likely unemployed at any
time in the year, have convictions on a range of felonies, and have served
prison terms. Still further,· let us propose that all your friends were like
you: poor and badly educated with families like yours, which means you
can get no help from them in finding a job.
In this chapter, we will discuss how young women the age of college
. coeds cope with virtually insurmountable social and economic barriers
in a poor community that has been socially and economically isolated
for more than eighty years. We will show that selling illegal drugs to
earn a living is a rational choice in such an isolated community. Finally,
we will discuss solutions to these types of social problems so prevalent
in modem America."

Mark S. Fleisher and Jessie L. Krienert

Crime and employment: critical issues in crime reduction for corrections; edited by Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher

AltaMira Press

2004

A Housing Gap Model for Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

Housing, Inequalities, Public Housing

This research proposes a basic housing gap model that can assist in the decision making process
related housing construction and rehabilitation programs. This model is then applied to the
community. of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to examine how public funding may affect the
housing market and if current public housing development projects will ultimately address the
needs of area residents. The primary focus is on housing and residents who are below 30% of the
area median family income (MFI).

Joshua Alexander Runhaar

Masters of Landscape Architecture Paper

2005