Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) can help minority business owners while also educating students. Problems facing minority businesses include limited access to capital and challenges of technology. Potential solutions include gaining formal business knowledge and partnering with majority businesses. Five ways HBCUs can help…

Investigated how racial identity formation among African American college students impacted student attitudes about the rapidly changing world. Surveys administered shortly after the September 11 attacks indicated that racial identity attitudes, gender, and student classification helped explain attitudes about the United States in the aftermath of…

American Education has never interpreted its functions in respect of needs of black Americans. Young blacks are the inheritors of a grave set of social circumstances, and must be the key link to social change. (DM)

Argues that the progressive education movement completely bypassed black colleges for several reasons, the most important being blacks' efforts to gain control over their own higher education institutions from white organizations. (Author/JM)

Notes that less than 10 years ago, the State of Florida had fourteen black junior colleges and four senior colleges and universities, yet today all of the fourteen junior colleges have been completely lost, and discusses Florida's four black institutions of higher learning, each having state approval, regional and/or national accreditation.…

This article's basic aim is to examine empirical evidence bearing upon the question of the relative competitive superiority of the predominantly white Division I football teams over the predominantly black Division II teams. (Author)

Compared attitudes and perspectives of Black college students attending a predominatly White college with those of students attending a predominantly Black college. Found that both groups expected to achieve higher economic and occupational status, though the White college was not seen as responding adequately to the needs of Black students. (GC)

In order to show how successful (or unsuccessful) blacks have been in gaining entrance into American colleges and universities, data on black college enrollment and earned degrees were compiled: the primary enrollment data source was a survey conducted by the Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Office of Education. (Author/JM)

The stated purpose of this paper is to examine critically problems and proposed solutions related to developing research activities at predominantly black colleges, with the focus being primarily on four-year colleges and universities; research is discussed, it is stated, from the perspective of the behavioral sciences. (Author/JM)

Argues that although the nature of community problems requires the address of all of higher education, black colleges are selective as a group to bring a systems approach to the resolution of many societal issues, and examines six aspects of higher education: legal, political, programmatic, economic, administrative, and dialectical. (Author/JM)

The stated purpose of this paper is to project some of the future actions and developments that black colleges and universities must, it is stated, be involved in if they are to survive in the desegregation and integration processes, arguing that black institutions of higher education if based on color by and large will not survive. (Author/JM)

A good black university must take serious note of not only its responsibilities as a Western institution, but also those it shares with universities of the Third World. (DM)

Briefly outlines the situation of education for U.S. Blacks today. Introduces and summarizes the articles in this special issue. (BJV)

Asserts that the argument that black "education" was a mistake and continues to be so is not viable and cannot exist in lieu of the need for black education, citing such needs as the following: (1) for security and shelter from white rejection; (2) for black role models in positions of authority; and, (3) for the enhancement of racial solidarity.…

Prospects and problems facing historically black institutions/colleges (HBIs) are reviewed, beginning with data from 38 publicly supported 4-year HBIs. Alternative models for HBIs include the following: (1) comprehensive public institutions; (2) academically specialized institutions for particular programs; and (3) comprehensive public…