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Fordyce, Hugh – Research Report, 1988
Issues concerning the collection and uses of data about college student retention are considered. Some of the documented findings about student retention in U.S. colleges is summarized, with attention to both national data and data for colleges belonging to the United Negro College Fund. Difficulties in obtaining useful retention data are…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, College Students, Data Collection
Brundage, Diane, Ed. – 1979
Based on work done for the 1978 Ford Fellows in Educational Journalism Program, the document contains series of newspaper articles authored by 10 journalists on various educational topics. The 10 series titles and authors are: "Growing Up Gifted in America's Schools" (H. Collins); "Minimum Competency Testing: State Approaches" (J. Covington);…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Black Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance
Download full textBoylan, Hunter R.; And Others – Research in Developmental Education, 1988
The historical roots of developmental education are traced in a three-part article extending across three serial issues. "Educating All the Nation's People," by Hunter R. Boylan and William G. White, Jr., reviews the historical antecedents of developmental education, focusing on efforts in the 17th century to prepare English-speaking American…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, College Preparation, College Role
Rambert, L. Jill – Regional Spotlight: News of Education in SREB States, 1989
One of the major roles of historically black colleges and universities was to train young blacks to become teachers in the segregated school systems of the United States. This report, the second in a series focusing on the supply of minority teachers, discusses: (1) the role historically black colleges and universities have played in meeting the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Black Teachers, College School Cooperation
Payne, Kathleen – Research Report, 1984
Results of a 1983 study of freshmen at private black four-year colleges and a comparison to freshmen at all four-year colleges are presented. Attention is directed to the educational, financial, and family backgrounds of the students, as well as their aspirations and interests. Data were obtained from "The American Freshman: National Norms for…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Freshmen
Peer reviewedGreene, Linda S. – Saint Louis University Law Journal, 1984
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recently promulgated rules that make athletes' initial eligibility conditional upon the achievement of certain scores on college entrance examinations and completion of a specified high school curriculum with a minimum grade point average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale. The changes were instituted to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Athletes, Black Colleges
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1977
The papers presented in this document cover three themes: (1) religious education; (2) the education of black U.S. citizens; and (3) the problem of education as imposition. Part 1 begins with "Tales for the Evangelical Nursery: Calculated to Edify, Caution, Instruct, Alarm, and Improve" (P. T. Rooke) that describes the moral instruction…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Education, Childrens Literature, Educational History
Emergent Leadership, 1978
This periodical is intended for exchanging information about leadership achievements, program innovations, research findings, and organizational developments having special interest to and bearing upon minority group members and women in education. This issue contains six articles, "State Education Agencies and the Delivery of Quality…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Administrators, Black Colleges, Black Education
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1985
The papers of this proceedings are presented in three parts. The four papers in part 1, "Issues in 20th Century American Education", discuss the women graduates of Oberlin College, 1836-1860, the Americanization of art museums, the business community's response to government's support of the labor movement, and the response of liberalism…
Descriptors: Art, Black Colleges, Business Education, Children
Porter, Oscar F. – United Negro College Fund Research Report, 1987
The characteristics and experiences of college freshmen who entered private black colleges in 1976 and 1985 were compared, based on data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's "The American Freshman: National Norms." Attention was focused on socioeconomic status (SES), academic preparation and confidence, reasons for…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Freshmen
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1983
Recommendations to further the educational development of minority college students are addressed in an essay, and descriptions of college programs funded by the Minority Achievement Program (MAP) are presented. In "A National Study of Minorities: Some Implications for Undergraduate Education," Alexander W. Astin considers the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Colleges, Career Awareness, College School Cooperation
ERIC Review, 1997
The "ERIC Review" announces research results, publications, and new programs relevant to each issue's theme topic. This issue is a compendium of resources, advice, and research to help guidance counselors, parents, and students plan for college. The first section, "Starting Out on the Path to College," contains the following articles: "Why Get on…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Black Colleges, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Kurian, George T., Ed. – 1988
An annual report of the conditions of higher education in the United States for 1986-1987 is presented. The 16 sub-sections are as follows: (1) introduction; (2) principal sectors of higher education (four papers, on research universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and state colleges); (3) issues (15 papers, e.g. academic…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges
