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Direct linkTalinceya M. Finley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to identify ways that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the state of Mississippi could provide better financial support to African-American college students that were raised in rural areas. This research also explained why the retention rate of African-American college students declined, while…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, African American Students, College Students, Student Needs
Peer reviewedWheatle, Katherine I. E. – American Educational History Journal, 2019
Historical writings about the Morrill Land-Grant Acts are not free from promoting unbiased, dominant ideas about the laws' reach and intentions. The Morrill Acts were major legislation, but they did not signify the entitlement of every citizen; their successes for Black students, communities, and colleges were meager. This study makes common cause…
Descriptors: Race, Educational History, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Speed, John Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study examines leadership efforts that supported the civil rights movements that came from administrators and professors, students and staff at Tougaloo College between 1960 and 1964. A review of literature reveals that little has been written about the college's role in the Civil Rights Movement during this time. Thus, one goal of this study…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Black Colleges, Leadership, Civil Rights
Stuart, Reginald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
When Alexander Johnson, a college freshman studying for a career in animation, began pondering colleges to attend, the opportunity to use modern computer technology tools in his classes played a major role in his consideration. Today, Johnson considers himself lucky to be among the students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Access to Computers, Information Technology, Financial Support
Drezner, Noah D. – Christian Higher Education, 2013
Colleges and universities are increasingly relying on philanthropic contributions to allow them to continue to provide high-quality education. Christian higher education is no different. African Americans give a larger percentage of their disposable income to nonprofits than any other racial group; this giving is primarily directed to the Black…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, African Americans, Prosocial Behavior, Church Related Colleges
Williamson, Joy Ann – History of Education Quarterly, 2004
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their students played a pivotal part in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and early 1960s. Private HBCUs, in particular, provided foot soldiers, intellectual leadership, and safe places to meet and plan civil disobedience. Their economic and political autonomy from the state enabled the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Autonomy, Civil Rights, Educational History
