This caused greater performance pressures in that they felt as though they needed to prove themselves in order to gain respect from fellow faculty members and from students.
She is known for her classic 1977 study of tokenism -- how being a minority in a group can affect one's performance due to enhanced visibility and performance pressure.
Grade non-disclosure to potential employers, a policy that is sacrosanct with students, further mitigates against academic competition and for that matter, performance pressures.