The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) was organized primarily to help provide approximately 10% of the operating budgets of its members, the private Negro colleges. Today, despite the growing income of the UNCF, many of its member colleges are seriously in need of capital funds. In an evaluation of higher education for Negroes that was sponsored by…

Title III of the Higher Education Act was designed to strengthen small institutions with weak financial bases. Some contend, however, that the lawmakers who conceived the program intended the money to go only to historically Black colleges and universities. (MLW)

The author concludes that the present preoccupation with admissions procedures had better be supplemented by an infiltration of the financial aid process. (Author)

From article at Danforth Foundation Workshop on Liberal Arts Education, Colorado College, Colorado, in 1970. (IR)

On the night of December 4, 2004, a Texas Southern University (TSU) student named Ashley Sloan was gunned down near campus, struck in the temple by a bullet after leaving a party with her friends. The murder prompted an outpouring of accusations concerning poor campus security. For many Houstonians, the shooting raised old fears of the…

This document reports on a Cooperative Academic Planning (CAP) curriculum development workshop, held in Atlanta, Georgia, December 3-5, 1973. Part I, plenary sessions on curriculum change and improvement, presents four reports: (1) academic programming for the black experience; (2) illuminating instruction with educational technology; (3)…

This is the third in a series of annual reports on the participation of the Nation's predominantly black colleges and universities in programs funded by federal agencies. The report documents the recent expansion and diversity of federal program support to these colleges. In this report, federal program funds are reported by agency for all…

Notes that the nature and the extent of research activities at some black institutions have the potential of generating economic benefits. (Author/AM)

In exchange for $8-12-million from the state, historically black Texas Southern University has agreed to maintain a schedule to fix financial problems threatening the institution and keep it from state control. Three-quarters of students receive aid. Lax financial accountability is a long-time problem. The university's historic role in educating…

Historically Black Colleges and Universities have many organizational characteristics and challenges similar to those of all urban and metropolitan institutions: to serve increasing proportions of first-generation, multicultural students from diverse, often disadvantaged backgrounds while also contributing to economic and community development.…

Analyzes the struggle of a poor black institution of higher education to retain Federal Funds. Further complicating the struggle over the university's claim is the constitutional question of separation of church and state and sectarian loyalties and rivalries within the black community. (Author/AM)

This fact finding project (1971-72) accumulated information upon which Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS) could begin reversing its tendency to fund white rather than black institutions of higher learning as training and research centers. The purpose was to suggest where and how, among black institutions, future funds might best be allocated.…

In the course of planning a program to increase the number of black PhDs, the Ford Foundation conducted a survey of blacks who held a doctorate. Questionnaires were sent to 2280 persons. Of 1096 responses, 140 persons, or 12.7% were 60 or older, and 102 or 9.4% were under 35 years of age. A greater percentage of men and women earned their degree…

The Black College Act rewrites Title III specifically to strengthen historically black colleges and universities. The act does the following: (1) establishes direct 10-year grant, facilities, equipment, and instruction and assistance programs; (2) authorizes monies to help small schools build endowments; and (3) aids "priority…