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Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This February 27, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "My Life as an Adjunct after a Full Career" (Caesar, Terry); (2) "Are You the Retiring Sort?" (Ms.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Retirement
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Boone, Patreece R. – Communication Education, 2003
This research sought to examine the communicative impact of the Black English speech pattern, known as call-response, on African Americans within an educational environment. An ethnographic study of an Historically Black College and University (HBCU) classroom was conducted to ascertain the pedagogical and cultural meanings this speech event held…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Speech Acts, Observation, Ethnography
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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
Kennard, Toni Hodge, Comp. – 1995
This handbook contains profiles of 107 historically black colleges and universities in the United States and the Virgin Islands. Information is derived from the College Board Annual Survey of Colleges database. Information for each school describes: (1) admissions criteria; (2) graduation information; (3) academic programs; (4) campus and student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Black Colleges
Wells-Lawson, Marcia I. – 1994
This study looked at whether white students at predominantly black colleges are as likely as black students at white colleges to report lower grades, less satisfactory relations with faculty, perceptions of accommodation of diversity in the campus environment, and feelings of discrimination. Data consisted of student responses to questionnaires…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Students, Colleges
Lockett, Gretchen C. – 1996
Faculty members employed at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) should give priority to teaching and learning. The work of faculty members at such institutions is a way to reclaim individuals who have been discarded by society. Mission statements should be reviewed to be sure that college printed materials do indeed reflect these…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Action Research, Black Colleges, College Faculty
Balazadeh, Nancy – 1996
Undergraduate sociology students at Rust College, Mississippi, an historically black college, have been given the opportunity to connect with the lives of others in institutional settings, thus making a generational connection between the college and a local nursing home. During the 1995-96 academic year, students in three sociology courses…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Role, Community Services, Curriculum Development
French, Peter L., Ed. – 1994
This report summarizes and analyzes a 5-year initiative undertaken by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to provide: first, comprehensive leadership development programming to presidents, administrators, and faculty of private historically black colleges and universities; and, second, a series of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Black Colleges, College Administration, College Role
Frierson, Cynthia L. – 1993
The attitudes of African American educators toward historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) were studied, focusing on the degree of support for HBCU, the perception that HBCU meet the needs of African American students, whether non-Blacks should attend HBCU, and why African Americans should choose them. The sample consisted of 30…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Culture, Black History, Black Students
Ratcliff, Glenis, Comp. – 1993
This bibliography lists selected resources of the New York State Library that document and comment on the educational experiences of African Americans in the United States. In addition to primary sources and significant works, the bibliography contains selected references to bibliographies, research aids, and reference works, although resource…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Biographies, Black Colleges, Black Education
Simpkins, Alice M. – 1993
Paine College, a four-year liberal arts institution in Augusta, Georgia, serving mostly black students recently completed an assessment and evaluation plan aimed at all units of the college. The plan was developed by members of the Committee on Institutional Effectiveness and Research over 12 months and focuses on the school's primary mission to…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
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Department of Education, Washington, DC. Default Management Div. – 1998
This report lists postsecondary schools with official student loan default rates of 25.0 percent or greater for fiscal years (FY) 1994, 1995, and 1996. The listed schools had previously been excluded from the Federal Family Education Loan Program and/or the Federal Direct Student Loan Program due to their high default rates, and this exclusion may…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Community Schools, Compliance (Legal), Eligibility
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education. – 1992
In one of a series of hearings held in communities around the nation on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education met to hear testimony from higher education professionals, students, and others in the state of Louisiana on Title III of the Act concerning minority access to higher education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Black Education, College Students
Stephens, Lowndes F.; And Others – 1994
To identify factors motivating African Americans to attend graduate or professional schools, questionnaires were mailed to nearly 1,600 African American journalism or mass communication students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). A second objective was to determine locations and schools from which the University of South…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Educational Environment, Educational Finance
Trent, William T. – 1983
Baccalaureate degree attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites for 1975-1976 and 1980-1981 are compared by major field and sex, based on data from the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). Attention is directed to degree distributions overall, by major field, and for blacks graduating from predominantly black and from…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bachelors Degrees, Black Colleges, Black Students
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