Reports on a 1998 survey of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) concerning their student newspapers. Finds that most student newspapers at HBCUs publish monthly and that the most frequently reported problems are funding and equipment. Suggests that black journalism students suffer from this regressive trend although there are some…

Provides historical and contemporary views of black colleges, discussing the development of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), the historic roles of HBCUs, differences between HBCUs and predominantly black colleges and universities (PBCUs), segregation and desegregation, the continuing value of HBCUs in the desegregated United…

Explores the growing phenomenon of increasing numbers of white faculty at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), noting implications for the traditional mission of HBCUs. Examines the historical and contemporary presence of white faculty at HBCUs and discusses unresolved and emerging issues, problems, and challenges that must be…

Discusses how Black educators say too few young Blacks, regardless of whether they attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or majority White institutions, are choosing physics as an undergraduate major or a career with the acquisition of a Ph.D. Explores the role that HBCUs, collaboration with the federal government, and Black…

Areas such as major fields of study, occupational plans, and highest degree plans are analyzed in light of the trends among and differences between black freshmen in traditionally black institutions and those in all institutions. (Author/AM)

Higher education for blacks in the United States is reviewed with attention to historical developments, college desegregation, and the role of philanthropic organizations. Two early, private universities in the North that were designed to provide higher learning for blacks were Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (1854) and Wilberforce University…

This dissertation explores the role of blacks in the field of organized athletics. From the institution of slavery, to vocational education, to unequal educational opportunity, to exploitation for profit, the white ruling class has been successful in maintaining control of the lives and destiny of the black community, particularly in the field of…

After briefly reviewing the formation of current Department of Health, Education and Welfare policy, discusses Florida's desegregation status, activities of HEW's Office of Civil Rights, the formulation and progress of the Florida desegregation plan, the projected role of Florida A. and M., and, the problem of maintaining Black enrollment. (JM)

This document reports on some student impact results of the Thirteen College Curriculum Program (TCCP). The TCCP is a major effort in intervention and reform in the higher education of black Americans generated in predominantly black colleges. The goals were to reduce attrition rates by improving the quality of instruction at freshman and…

What is the nature of the "no-show" problem for the fall semester of 1973-74 at Alcorn State University? Approximately 45 percent of those students surveyed did not attend college in the fall. The primary reason for nonattendance at any college was given as financial by 34 percent of the students surveyed. The primary reason for those attending…

After their freshman year in college in 1966, 1744 outstanding black high school students who had reached the Commended stage of competition in the first National Achievement Scholarship Program were followed up for study. They were classified according to the type of 4-year college attended: public or private predominantly Negro colleges, or low,…

Woodrow Wilson Fellowships were awarded to 107 graduates from Negro colleges between 1958 and 1962 but to only 69 graduates during the following 5 years. The realization that this drop may have been caused by increased recruiting of Negro students by northern colleges and concern about the small number of black students at the graduate level led…

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)

Using national longitudinal data, this study sought to compare the effect of attending historically black and white institutions of higher education on academic achievement. African American student characteristics and institutional resources were also compared and contrasted. The analyses through hierarchical linear modeling suggested no…