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National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981
Data on black college students and black colleges for 1980-81 are presented and briefly described. More than a million black students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities in fall 1980, and slightly more than half of these students attended colleges in the Southern and border states. Over a third of the black students in the Southern/border…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Students
Smith, Calvert H. – 1981
The role of predominantly black colleges and reasons that they are needed by their constituencies are considered. It is suggested that one of the primary reasons historically black colleges have experienced enrollment and program growth is the perception of the black community about the significance of these institutions. It is claimed that the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Desegregation
Carr, David J.; Chittum, Carol – 1979
Nonacademic factors that may influence recruitment and retention of black students at predominantly white colleges and of white students at predominantly black colleges in Virginia were studied. The study was designed to identify the special problems of these students and the nonacademic activities designed to address those problems. Twenty-one…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Ancillary School Services, Black Colleges, Black Students
Wire, Donald R. – 1979
In spite of the brief duration of the Mastery Learning Program at Durham College, this final report on the activities and outcomes of the project reveals several positive effects upon students and faculty. The report begins by providing background data on the college, an independent junior college serving a population of economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Black Colleges, Black Students
Haynes, Leonard L., III, Ed. – 1979
The state desegregation plans of Arkansas and Georgia are considered in terms of the legal mandates, the history of higher education in the two states, methodological approaches of the plans, implementing the plans, and submission of plans and monitoring. Implementation efforts included disestablishment of the structure of the dual system,…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Desegregation, College Faculty, College Students
Durham, Joseph T. – 1980
Throughout their history, most black institutions of higher education have struggled against debilitating circumstances: antagonistic communities and legislatures, poverty, poorly prepared students, competition from white colleges, and program duplication with white institutions. In the period of serious desegregation at the elementary and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Admission Criteria, Black Colleges, College Desegregation
National Advisory Committee on Black Higher Education and Black Colleges and Universities (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1980
Historically Black Colleges (HBC's) are identified as a key component of a responsive and diverse postsecondary education system. Continuing HBC leadership in promoting equal educational opportunity and in producing Black graduates is still seen as necessary in spite of the integration process. Recent achievements of these institutions include:…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College Faculty, College Role
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1978
Fall 1977 marked the midway point of implementation of the Maryland Plan for Completing the Desegregation of the Public Postsecondary Education Institutions in the State. In this midpoint assessment, four areas in which the state has achieved a degree of progress and four areas needing improvement by the state higher education community are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Black Students, Enrollment Rate
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. Inst. for Higher Educational Opportunity. – 1969
Contracted by the Select Council on Post-High School Education in Florida with the Southern Regional Education Board, this study was designed to provide information and observations which the Council could use in formulating suggestions and recommendations for the special post-high school educational needs of Negro students. The issues to which…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Students
Jayatilleke, Raja, Comp. – 1976
This is the fifth of a series of Capsule Bibliographies on current issues in urban and minority education. It is a selection from a computer search using suitable descriptors matched against a standard Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse profile for urban and minority concepts. Such descriptors (subject headings) as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Colleges, College Admission, College Bound Students
Manuel, Rick – 1996
In 1993, Kankakee Community College (KCC) (Illinois) initiated a project to reduce the problems associated with transfer from the community college to out-of-state universities by developing a strong structure of articulation agreements, recruiting opportunities, and transfer advising. The project attempted to serve under-represented students and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Affirmative Action
Belcher, Rebecca Newcom – 2001
The overrepresentation of African American students in special education programs is of national concern. Research has identified a higher special education placement rate of African American male students with Caucasian teachers. Yet the current U.S. teaching force includes only 4 percent African American teachers. To identify factors predictive…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Disproportionate Representation, Elementary Secondary Education

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1995
Contains articles on the black experience in higher education, including affirmative action issues, enrollment trends at both black and Ivy League colleges, black appointments in higher education favoring men and other gender issues, and blacks in college coaching. State- and school-specific articles concerning segregation, black leadership in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Athletic Coaches, Black Colleges, College Faculty

Lang, Marvel – Journal of Black Studies, 1992
Examines trends in the educational achievement of African Americans at secondary and postsecondary levels using data from various national surveys. Barriers to educational achievement are described, and intervention strategies for improving African-American success in higher education are reviewed. Increasing minority participation will require…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Black Colleges
Kenya, Sonjia; Brodsky, Mitchell; Divale, William; Allegrante, John P.; Fullilove, Robert E. – Journal of American College Health, 2003
The authors administered the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey to 1,219 college students who were attending a historically Black college located in New York City. They assessed the US-born Black students and Black students who emigrated to the United States for differences in risky sexual behaviors, risky dietary behaviors, and physical…
Descriptors: College Students, Sexuality, Physical Activities, Immigration