Participants in this phenomenological study were 11 African American women who received an undergraduate degree from a historically Black college or university and were currently attending graduate school at a southern mid-Atlantic predominantly White university. Researchers investigated the lived experiences of these women and their adjustment to…

There is a paucity of African American female students entering engineering studies and the engineering profession itself. The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to examine the context within which African American female engineering students matriculate in engineering programs and to explore the role of environmental influences,…

African American female college students attending either a predominantly African American or predominantly White coed institution were surveyed about their racial identity levels, sex role attitude levels, and perceptions of racism and sexism in a school-related vignette. There were 95 participants from the predominantly African American…

Since leadership studies tend to deal with powerful public personalities, and since leadership in the U.S. is biased in terms of race, class, and sex privileges, it is not surprising that the contributions of black women leaders go largely unrecognized and that studies on black female leadership are scant and present an incomplete picture. To…

This study examined how African American women defined who they were in their respective college contexts, focusing on the roles of gender, race, and institutional type. A total of 20 women from a white coeducational institution, a predominantly white women's college, and a coeducational, historically black college participated in in-depth…

Despite differential gender findings in the epidemiology of substance use, only a limited amount of research focuses on the differences in initiation into drug use and antecedent conditions. As part of the awareness of the need for mutual support among African American women, the National Black Women's Health Project, in conjunction with the…

The use of a combination of traditional cognitive admissions criteria and noncognitive variables in predicting retention of college students is discussed. The focus is on improving prediction by analyzing various subgroups separately rather than using the entire population as a sample. The subjects were freshmen in the fall semester of 1978 at a…

This paper is part of a larger study of southern African American women who were awarded fellowship awards by the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the General Education Board (GEB) for the purpose of graduate study at northern universities prior to school desegregation. An examination of their professional histories suggests that the women faced a glass…

Because the 1862 and 1890 Morrill Act Land Grant colleges feature predominantly white or predominantly black student enrollments, a study to assess similarities and differences of the respective student bodies was undertaken. A selected sample of students at all southern land grant institutions was asked in the spring of 1977 to respond to a…

A study was conducted to: (1) analyze trends in the number of minorities and women enrolled at undergraduate and graduate levels in managerial, technical, and scientific fields; (2) examine the number of undergraduate and graduate minorities and women who major in these fields; and (3) examine the impact of these trends on equity and access. Four…