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Davis, Wanda M. – 1997
Data from campus crime reports and security logs help identify the perpetrators and likely victims of crime on college campuses. The historically black college or university campus is not exempt from physical and verbal acts of violence, and every area of the campus is vulnerable. Although the academy has no duty to protect the community from…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Colleges, Black Students, Conflict Resolution
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1997
This study examined student loan default rates at 98 of the 104 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. About 3 percent of all federal students loans made in fiscal year (FY) 1995 were made to students at HBCUs, a percentage that has remained steady from FY 1991 through FY 1995. For FY 1993, the average loan…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Eligibility, Federal Programs
Lanoue, David G., Ed.; Wilson, Vivian A., Ed. – 1988
This collection of essays is introduced by Paul Connelly, who focuses on how the essayists encounter problems boldly and recognize opportunity in them--the essays are less local reports of various successful process approaches to teaching writing than a record of the willingness to experiment, to take risks, to learn. The essays and their authors…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College English, English Instruction
Watson, Zarus E. P.; And Others – 1994
American colleges and universities are losing more and more students between their freshman and sophomore years. This problem is even more pronounced among Black and/or open-admissions institutions. This study investigates the relationship between student academic performance and academic advisement at the collegiate level. The sample consists of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Admissions Counseling, Black Achievement
Littleton, Roosevelt, Jr. – 1998
Beginning with the Civil War and continuing through Reconstruction, black education became a national public policy issue. It was only after the Civil War that a national educational policy could be implemented throughout the nation. The initiative for black education was orchestrated primarily by blacks, the church, and federal legislation.…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Culture, Black History, Black Students
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Jordan, Vernon E. – Daedalus, 1975
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)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Students, Educational Finance
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Lyons, James E. – Journal of Negro Education, 1974
It was found that a strong desire to leave the state of Connecticut was a major force in black students attending out of state colleges and universities. Other contributory factors included the Connecticut schools lengthy admissions evaluations, the structure of some compensatory education programs, a non-competitive financial aid program and the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College Admission, College Choice
Carmichael, J. W., Jr. – 1986
The use of linear regression to identify variables that predict grades of black students in precalculus and calculus I was studied at Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically-black institution. The predictive power of the variables for black males and females was also assessed. These two mathematics courses are prerequisites for students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Students, Calculus
Hill, Susan T. – 1984
The contribution of the traditionally black institutions (TBIs) to the undergraduate education of blacks in 20 states was studied, with attention to trends in enrollments and degrees from 1970-1982. From 1970 to 1976, the number of black full-time undergraduates almost doubled in 17 southern states and Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Ohio. In 1970,…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Students
Gosman, Erica J.; And Others – 1982
Preliminary findings from a study of black student retention and progression in higher education are reported. The findings are based on the responses of eight public and private universities to an Institutional Data Questionnaire (IDQ). Analysis of the IDQ shows that, overall, white students perform better than black students in terms of their…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Acceleration, Black Colleges, Black Students
Richards, James M., Jr. – 1980
Compared to the United States labor force as a whole, blacks are overrepresented in social service careers and underrepresented in technical and executive careers. This study examined the possibility that the psychosocial environment provided by black colleges may help to cause or perpetuate the distribution of blacks among careers. The faculties…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Employment, Black Students, Career Choice
Monro, John U. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Culture, Black Education, Black Students
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Carroll, Juollie – Journal of College Student Development, 1988
Examined whether or not participation in a college discovery program was useful in the retention or attrition of educationally underprepared Black freshmen (N=137). Found the role of the counselor and the scope of counseling services during the freshman year to be of primary importance in the retention of educationally underprepared Black college…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Attendance
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Dumont, Rosemary Ruhig – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1986
Review of history of the education of Black librarians from 1910 to the present focuses on the underrepresentation of Blacks in the field. Highlights include opportunities offered at library schools, support of public and private foundations, court decisions, and recommendations for future participation of Blacks in library science. (CD)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Blacks, Court Litigation
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Hendrix, Wanzo F.; Nelson, William J. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1986
Due to desegregation of formerly White schools, traditionally Black colleges must compete for enrollments with better financed institutions. The caste structure of American society prevents integrated schools from meeting Black students' psychic needs; therefore, active, honest recruitment can attract students by informing them of the advantages…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College Choice, College Environment
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