Sixty years have passed since the pivotal 1954 Supreme Court case of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" and almost fifty years have elapsed since the Higher Education Act of 1965. The Brown decision dismantled public segregated schools in many parts of the country, especially in the South, and racial access in schools…

Racially minoritized students attending U.S. colleges and universities are often compared to their White peers in research studies, generally emphasizing their cultural deficits, masking minority group achievement, and homogenizing within group variations. This article reports data for racially minoritized students who participated in the national…

This study was an examination of how African American faculty discussed their coping with racially stressful classrooms. Despite aims for racial equality in higher education, the classroom has been a significant site of racial stressors for African American facility. Analysis of interviews with 16 (8 women, 8 men) African American faculty at a…

Early laws prohibited African Americans from learning to read and write in the United States. The right to an education has produced a significant number of African American women acquiring higher education. Racial and gender diversity at the presidential level in higher education 4-year institutions appears to be changing rapidly. The data…

The inability of American colleges and universities to produce teachers for America's urban classrooms has reached epidemic proportions. This article seeks to describe the legal effects of policies and laws designed to create conditions for highly qualified teaching professionals. Issues germane to the topic of urban teacher preparation and…

Investigated gender and racial/ethnic differences in college students' support for affirmative action in higher education. Multivariate analyses of data from a diverse sample of 290 students found greater differences along racial/ethnic than gender lines. European- and Asian-American students expressed greater opposition to affirmative action.…

Examines the work of African American psychologist and social-educational anthropologist Allison Davis, focusing on his three major sociological studies. The relevance and implications of his research and his ideas about the American school curriculum are discussed. (SLD)

Presents findings of a study which investigated factors that influence the major field choices of Black college students. Reports that the students are most influenced by sex and sex role socialization, childhood and career interests, and subsequent occupational expectations. Discusses data in relation to the underrepresentation of Blacks in…

Compared selected characteristics of high schools attended by students admitted to and denied admission to the University of California Berkeley (UCB) in 1998 and 1999 and California high school students overall. Discrepancies between school characteristics were found for the first two groups in 1998, but by 1999 the high school profiles of these…

The academic performance of Black and White freshmen on a commuter campus was compared. Even when adjustment was made for racial gaps in precollegiate preparation and abilities, Black students had significantly lower first-year grade point averages. One reason may be the impact of a lack of social integration in the negative environment of White…

Reviews the growing student interest in agricultural education, particularly among minorities. Examines the characteristics, experiences, and aspirations of agriculture students based on a large scale survey of Southern land-grant universities. (EF)

Examines data from a 1991-92 survey by the American Political Science Association that show that race remains the single strongest significant explanation for the difference in rank among African- and European-American political scientists. African Americans are not tenured at the same rate as Whites, nor do they hold as many full professorships.…

Offers an overview of the context and consequences of affirmative action in California with regard to faculty hiring and student admissions for African Americans and other Californians of color. Data support the contention that African American representation in public postsecondary education will decrease in the absence of affirmative action.…

Examines differences in use of and familiarity with computing technology between black and white undergraduate students in a sample of 570 students from a single university. Black students enter school with less experience with computers, and this difference is not lessened by collegiate experience. Institutional factors may be responsible for…

Examined the status of African Americans in the U.S. professorate and its relationship to this group's access and success. Faculty surveys compared the characteristics, experiences, and achievements of African American professors on six predominantly white campuses to those of their white peers. African American faculty members were systematically…