Fundraising is the most challenging issue facing Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The declines in federal and state appropriations have elucidated the need for alternative sources of financial support. The specific problem of interest is that the inherent level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy of the president and development officer…

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…

Students in the University of Rhode Island's GLBT community are fed up with what they describe as their marginalization. They are seeking, among other resources, respectable headquarters, where they can invite professors, hold events, and develop a sense of belonging on the campus. Since a week-long protest this past fall, they are gaining ground.…

This article is based on the findings of a 2-year study that examined the nature of effective faculty/student undergraduate research (UR) science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) relationships. The study site was a large urban public college where three fourths of all incoming freshmen receive need-based aid; and although not a…

The purpose of this study was to investigate student participation in collegiate student governance, the impact of that involvement and its influence on career choice for African-American participants, and to enlighten educators about role and value of collegiate student government participation. If participation in student government and…

This practice brief is one of a series highlighting key practices undertaken by some of the many successful Building Engagement and Attainment for Minority Students (BEAMS) schools during the project's five years of data collection and action plan implementation. These practice briefs accompany a monograph that details the process BEAMS…

Many students at minority-serving institutions are underexposed to Internet resources such as the human genome project, PubMed, NCBI databases, and other Web-based technologies because of a lack of financial resources. To change this, we designed and implemented a new bioinformatics component to supplement the undergraduate Genetics course at…

An informal CASE sampling of alumni activities at some of the nation's Black colleges is reported. Factors contributing to alumni involvement in fund-raising drives are described, including: close contact with alumni, increase in volunteers and matching grant incentives, heightened alumni awareness of need for outside help, and phonathons. (MLW)

Determines how 70 administrators of black public colleges think desegregating higher education would effect the quality and quantity of education received by blacks, the economic benefits to blacks from education, the future faculty, staff, and student body compositions at black public colleges, and the continuation of the black public college as…

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…

The Student Problem Areas Survey was administered to 237 black and white students attending a predominantly white university and 55 black students attending a predominantly black university. The instrument was developed at the University Counseling Center for the purpose of determining broad problem areas within which relevant mental health…

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities are in an unrivaled position to remedy the technological disenfranchisement of the nation's emerging majority populations--the nation's future workforce--but remain limited due to lack of financial resources. While some…

This study focused on factors which had helped attract faculty members to science teaching careers in 34 public and 33 private predominantly Negro colleges. A questionnaire was mailed to 485 teachers, 78 percent of whom responded. The data were organized for further analysis according to: (1) private-public college affiliation, (2) racial origin,…

One of the youngest of the professions belonging to higher education is institutional research. But younger still has been the incursion of institutional research onto the campuses of predominantly black institutions. This group of papers attempts to lend a truer perspective to the burgeoning institutional research function at predominantly black…

Explores African Americans' college choice decisions, based on a national sample of 220,757 freshmen. Independent of gender, family income, or educational aspiration, the most powerful predictors for choosing historically black colleges and universities are geography, religion, the college's academic reputation, and relatives' desires. The top…