The research literature on higher education as a contextual site primarily explores institutional history, campus curriculum, organizational administration, and student behavior. These macro-level topics are given life through institutional analysis set in liberal arts colleges, universities, community colleges, and special population or special…

Quality assurance is an important subject in modern universities. After discussing several theoretical aspects of quality and quality assurance, the authors conclude that the care taken by heads of academic departments or directors of academic schools in the process of quality assurance may be regarded as one of the key elements of ensuring good…

This article examines the forces of discrimination in institutions of higher education in the United States. Much of the literature on black education from the beginning of the century to Jensen's work has attempted to show the inherent inferiority of blacks. This literature has shaped the general public's view of black Americans and their…

This study covering the last 100 years in the development of industrial education at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College was prompted by the need to determine the role of the college in the development of industrial education in the state of Mississippi. Sources of data included college catalogs, reports of the college administration and…

The history of Black institutions against the context of the race and class conditions within which they were founded and continue to function are discussed. The history of the racial and social class context is linked with the wider theme of diverse preparation. (MLW)

Some Ohio legislators want to force financially troubled Central State University (CSU) to reunite with Wilberforce University, one of the country's oldest, private, historically black colleges. The two institutions split in 1927. CSU supporters of the merger would not change the private status of Wilberforce. Other merger options are under…

In the 1950s, the State of Florida led the way in developing a national model for the development of the junior or community college system. The "Brown vs Board of Education" Supreme Court Decision impacted the segregated system and during the 1960s, Florida's 12 black junior colleges were merged with pre-existent majority campuses. This…

Religious denominations have a long history of benevolent outreach to individuals considered "less fortunate." The institution of slavery in the United States created an opportunity for most denominations in the North to advance an image of "patron saint" to an oppressed African American community. Immediately following the…

Tuskegee Institute sponsored the first movable school to bring agricultural training to Black adults in rural areas. Thomas Monroe Campbell, the school's first teacher, pioneered the use of demonstrations as an effective teaching tool for rural families. (IAH)

This report of an American Association of University Professors committee examines, in the context of the Supreme Court's decision in "United States v. Fordice," threats to the continued existence of historically black colleges and universities and the accomplishments of HBCUs, both public and private, which justify their existence. An…

Educators who are interested in perpetuating black colleges because they are valuable institutions must deal with the nation as it is and educate an increasing number of white scholars who need the types of education black colleges provide. Black colleges can maintain their prevailing cultural ethos while racially integrating whites. (SLD)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, northern philanthropic foundations played a significant role in the development of higher education for African Americans in the South. The General Education Board (1902-60), a Rockefeller philanthropy, expended $122 million on black education through a wide-ranging programmatic agenda. The…

The historically black land-grant institutions, sometimes referred to as "1890" institutions, have achieved many agricultural successes that can be used effectively in the multicultural education movement. These institutions have recently celebrated over 100 years of progress and productivity through teaching, research, and service to a culturally…

The nature and quality of state colleges are discussed. State colleges are considered to consist of publicly controlled, four-year institutions other than those engaging in significant doctoral-level education, or those granting a majority of their degrees in a single program area. The state colleges are primarily comprehensive institutions…