This article examines the relationship between blacks and the college environment. Emphasis is placed on declining enrollment, financial problems, and lack of blacks in the fields of science and the professions. Black colleges are offered as part of the solution for blacks who cannot afford the high-cost predominately white institutions. (DE)

Black colleges have an extraordinary opportunity to develop a situation in which black people develop their own critical apparatus and come to use their own yardsticks rather than the traditional white yardsticks. The position of the white teacher in the black college is, then, a difficult tricky situation. The white teacher must learn to turn the…

Some students at historically Black and Baptist Virginia Union University are disappointed they are not getting the kind of religious experience they'd anticipated. A few miles away, at the traditionally white and Baptist University of Richmond, the salient issue for African-American students is greater social integration. (MSE)

A survey administered to 53 African American freshmen at Hampton University (Virginia), a private historically black institution, gathered information on attitudes toward the learning of foreign languages in general and toward German second language learning specifically. Only two respondents had studied two or more years of German in high school,…

Presents a statistical record of African American progress in higher education in the United States, including equity issues, the state of racial inequality, and financial needs. Comparative trends are provided concerning population, health, academic testing, and participation in sports between African Americans and whites; enrollments in…