Financial aid programs are supposed to improve access and affordability in higher education (Gillen, 2009). The effectiveness of these programs is increasingly being questioned as college attainment figures stagnate and the financial burden on students and families continues to climb year after year. The purpose of this study was to examine the…

The growth in philanthropic support by source to the private black colleges is traced and compared with that for voluntary support to higher education institutions generally and to private higher education particularly. Data are obtained from the 1969-70 and 1976-77 Council for Financial Aid to Education surveys and from data collected directly…

Data tables are compiled on the characteristics of black freshmen entering a representative sanple of 393 predominately black and predominately white academic institutions. Using a ten percent random subsample of original data compiled by Alexander W. Astin for the Cooperative Institutional Research program, the researchers present extensive…

Discusses survey findings that show black academics are highly pessimistic in their view of the future of blacks in higher education. Reasons include the following: curtailment of federal support for black colleges over the next five years; continued built-in test bias against blacks; no improvement in campus race relations; and persistent racial…