A college degree is increasingly vital for career mobility and economic success as more employers are requiring greater levels of education and credentials. For more than 150 years, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played a leading role in graduating black students and have made significant contributions to the workforce…

Among North Carolina's 11 Black colleges and universities, it is possible to see them as a representative sample of the 105 institutions that make up the historically Black college and university community in the United States. While leaders at the state's HBCUs express optimism over the potential they envision their individual campuses…

This long-range planning study of higher education, the most comprehensive of its kind undertaken in the state, is based on more than 70 specific studies and on long-range planning reports of the public senior institutions. Eleven major goals of higher education are discussed in detail and 118 specific recommendations are made to implement these…

This document is an amendment to and extension of the "Revised North Carolina State Plan for the Further Elimination of Racial Duality in Public Post-Secondary Education Systems" (called the State Plan), which was submitted in response to actions of HEW in its capacity as defendent in the case Adams v. Califano. Sections of the report…