Archived documents and publications produced using data collected by the Assessment of Educational Equity Project
In the Spring of 1984 the Illinois Senate Committee on Higher Education established a Subcommittee on Minority Concerns tasked with assessing and enhancing the educational progress of historically disadvantaged groups in Illinois. This legislative initiative was the impetus for the conceptualization of a process and strategies that would accomplish the task of the Subcommittee. Subsequently, in 1987 a committee of members of the Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education (ICBCHE) developed a proposal for a project titled "Assessment of Educational Equity (AEE)” which was submitted under the aegis of the Center for Higher Education at Illinois State University and funded by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). Dr. Charles E. Morris has served as the AEE Project Director since its inception.
Based on the assumption that successful participation in postsecondary education depends upon "supportive and nurturing" campus climates, the AEE Project staff developed survey instruments, designed to measure perceptions of campus climate by undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff, and for the assessment of institutional programs and services. Data collected using AEE survey instruments have provided a rich resource for dissertations, theses and reports which address issues and questions related to the educational progress of the target groups cited by the legislative committees.
Collected documents and publications 1989-1996
The contents below are provided purely for archival purposes, no attempt has been made to edit the various studies, reports, and publications into some consistent narrative.
- Abstract and Brief History of AEE Project
- Assessment of Educational Equity (AEE) Project (Word)
- ASME/AEE Supported Reports and Scholarly Productivity (Word)
- Assessment of the Status of Minorities in Education (ASME): Codebook - Undergraduate Student Survey (Spring 1990) (pdf)
- Perceptions of Institutional Attractiveness (pdf)
- Perceptions of Academic Climate (pdf)
- Perceptions of Racial Climate (pdf)
- Perceptions of an Undergraduate Student: Assessing the Status of Minorities in Higher Education
- Institutional Attractiveness: What is Important to Students?
- Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Academic Climate at a Midwestern Baccalaureate Institution
- Contemporary Studies of Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Campus Climate
- Implications of Student Perceptions of Academic Climate: Diversity on College Campuses
- Minority Access and Financial Aid: Perceptions, Policies, and Issues
- Equity Assessment Excerpts