After a difficult period in the 1960s and 1970s, historically Black institutions are enjoying a renaissance as more academically gifted students are enrolling. Since the 1980s, historically Black institutions have become increasingly skillful at recruiting and enrolling the nation's highest-achieving Black high school students. (JM)

Describes the current roles and conditions of traditionally Black colleges and universities, their contributions to the higher education of Black students and other students who attend them, and the historical origin of these institutions. Also presents profiles of the students who attend and faculty who work at these institutions. (Author/KS)

An increasing number of top Black students are deciding to attend Black colleges due to these institutions' outstanding reputation for retention rates and placement into graduate schools. This has in turn caused White colleges to increase their recruitment and retention efforts. (DF)

Briefly highlights the progress of black colleges in attracting the most highly qualified black students and lists the pros and cons surrounding the choice of an education through an historically black college or university. Considerations such as ethnic isolation, living conditions, curricula quality, and the availability of financial assistance…

Describes how exclusive reliance on traditional achievement measures as indices of intellectual potential, and the ensuing competition among nursing schools for the most academically able students, has created a caste system that has left the task of educating the "less able" to Black collegiate institutions. (Author/GC)

Discusses the declining enrollment of minority students in law school. Examines why this is happening, what measures are being taken to counteract it, and what still needs to be done to reverse this decline. Influences of faculty role models and Black law schools are discussed. (JS)

Excerpts from recently-released Department of Education reports outline the success of Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia in recruiting black students and faculty to predominantly white state colleges and universities. (MSE)

Explores the following reasons why Blacks do not make more generous financial contributions to Black universities and colleges: (1) lack of cultural understanding of the economic process in higher education; (2) treatment of Black students; (3) high tuition costs; (4) student indebtedness; and (5) lack of organized administrative procedures.…

Department of Education issuance of reports on the status of 10 states' court-ordered college desegregation without any evaluation of the states' efforts has disappointed civil-rights activists. The unexpected release of the reports was due in part to the threat of Congressional subpoena of the information. (MSE)

Discusses the contribution of historically black schools in training black doctors, the progress of blacks in medical education, and the problem of doctor shortages in black communities. Comparative charts include information on the numbers of blacks in the highest-ranked nursing schools, black enrollment, black graduations, and faculty…

Issues related to minorities and higher education were reported at a federally sponsored conference. Research described is related to: black students and black colleges; community colleges and minority students; faculty hiring and affirmative action; campus presidents and minority enrollments; and Supreme Court decisions and affirmative action.…

Reviews the history of Black women's higher education and focuses on three issues: (1) coeducation versus single sex institutions, (2) curricular needs, and (3) psycho-social needs of Black women. Cites examples from two major Black women's colleges. (KH)

Presents several brief reports on the latest trends and current circumstances surrounding African American progress in higher education. Discussions include funding levels at black colleges, black student recruitment at Harvard and Yale, displacement of black PhDs in science and engineering, and education and the African American mother. (GLR)

Morehouse College, which has played a central role in shaping the nation's black middle class leadership, is valued as a producer of positive counterpoints to a society with negative images of black males. The academic program and current endowment goals of its new president are described. (MLW).

Discusses components of the University of North Carolina's consent decree, and holds that the "remedies" proposed therein actually will prevent the achievement of equal educational opportunity in North Carolina. (GC)