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PROBLEM:

A STUDY ABOUT THE MEASURE OF DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN LASALLIAN

GRADUATES AND NON-LASALLIAN GRADUATES AS FACULTY MEMBERS IN DE LA

SALLE UNIVERSITY

HYPOTHESIS:NULL HYPOTHESIS: There is no discrimination among faculty members or applicants in

De La Salle University.

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS: Lasallian graduates who are part of the faculty or

applying as part of the faculty in the different departments of De La Salle university

enjoy unequal benefits with those enjoyed by non-Lasallian graduates who are part of

the faculty or are also applying to be part of the faculty.

SCOPE, LIMITATION AND METHODOLOGY:

What data would you need to prove your hypothesis?

The data needed are the following:1. Number of faculty members per department and their respective educational

attainment and ranks as professors in the University

2. Number of faculty members who had a Lasallian education classified according

whether undergraduate or graduate degree

3. Number of faculty members who graduated from other educational institutions with a

similar classification (undergraduate or graduate degree)

4. Promotion rate or period of different faculty members in the different departments

5. Benefits enjoyed by faculty members in the different departments

6. Comparison of the different number of publications or journals written by professors,

results of teaching evaluation and other academic requirements for promotion7. Number of faculty applicants classified under two groups: a. those who had a

Lasallian education which includes undergraduate and/or graduate studies; b. those

who had education from other educational institutions which will be classified similarly as

undergraduate and/or graduate studies

8. Percentage of applicants hired from these two groups

How do you plan to gather data? What or who will be the sources?

The methods of gathering data will be initially done through surveys of faculty members

and by gathering previous studies which indicated or tabulated numbers or results for

each of the data mentioned above. If no studies have been conducted about it, a morefeasible method is to use a case study approach. The main sources of data are faculty

members or professors. Other sources will be or can be gathered from different offices

of La Salle which handles hiring and promotion of faculty members, where the DLSU

administration will be involved.

What problems do you see in gathering data?

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The problems anticipated to arise from this study will concern answering why

discrimination takes place. The numbers or data collected will only be descriptive of the

existence of discrimination amongst faculty members of different educational roots but it

will not be able to resurface the biases happens or on what affects there preferences

which leads them to favor one faculty over the other. It will not be able to fully explain as

well as to identify its existence in the application, promotion and retention process.(eg.benefits) Aside from these, the other problems which can possibly arise from a

quantitative method will be the difficulty in obtaining data which are classified as

personal and confidential. It will not be say to collect information about faculty members

as these are data highly regarded as private and it will not also be simple to obtain

application data as some offices are very bureaucratic in giving out data which can take

processes and longer periods to obtain. The data needed are very sensitive as the topic

itself is sensitive because the results might produce a negative impression on the part of

the administration. It might also engender repercussions to faculty members who had a

Lasallian education.

Are there other data information that you would need but may not be able to gather if

you limit your method to those that are observable and quantifiable?

The quantitative method plays a big role in the undertaking of the study yet the

qualitative method is as important in in the undertaking of the study. As mentioned

earlier, the biases that the discrimination may hold cannot be fully explained by numbers

and this certain form of parochialism will not be fully reflected by numbers are these

are only representative of the certain data to which they belong but the underlying

reasons or causes for such statistics will have to be explained through an examination of

processes or will be more of a qualitative method as we will be aiming to interview faculty

members and to analyze their experiences to answer and prove the existence of suchdistinction and discrimination between faculty members. This can also be done with

administrators to analyze the preferences that they hold to describe the influence that

they have in faculty concerns.