This study examines racial identity attitudes, womanist identity attitudes, and self-esteem of 111 African American college women attending two historically Black higher educational institutions, one coeducational and one single-sex. The major findings indicate that pre-encounter and encounter attitudes of racial and womanist identity are…

Reviews the history of Black women's higher education and focuses on three issues: (1) coeducation versus single sex institutions, (2) curricular needs, and (3) psycho-social needs of Black women. Cites examples from two major Black women's colleges. (KH)

Originating 75 years ago as a means of safeguarding students from excesses in physical activities, the student-health service has had a phenomenal development. From an examination, by the methods then at hand, of heart, lungs, and spine and the prescription of gymnastic exercises according to the findings, this examination has developed, with the…

Transcripts from a four-part National Public Radio "Options in Education" series are presented in this publication. The first program examines student cheating at colleges. Students and faculty discuss methods of cheating, reasons for cheating, student attitudes toward cheating, specific instances of cheating, and provide insights into why…

This is the third part of the 1937 educational directory published by the Office of Education. This bulletin focuses on colleges and universities, including all institutions of higher education. Institutions are classified according to their offerings into six types: (1) College or university offering liberal arts; 4-year; degree-granting; (2)…

More than 1,000 institutions of higher learning in the United States are now offering work of college grade to some 900,000 students. These institutions include regular 4-year colleges and universities, independent professional schools specializing in law, medicine, dentistry, theology, engineering, etc., 2-year junior colleges, colleges for…

Part 1 of the education directories for 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939 covers federal and state education agencies. U.S. Department of Interior Office of Education officials, principal state school officers, and county and other local superintendents are listed. Part 2 lists principal city school officers and Catholic parochial school superintendents.…