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Johnson, Cheryl; And Others – 1982
Desegregation progress under the "Maryland Plan for Completing the Desegregation of the Public Postsecondary Institutions in the State," which spanned from 1974 to 1980, is reviewed. The community college segment and the state college and university segment have met their 1980 projected ranges, but as a segment, the University of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Desegregation
Patterson, Zella J. Black; Wert, Lynette L. – 1979
Oklahoma's Langston University, a land-grant college founded under the Morrill Act of 1890, is described. Its founding and growth in the Oklahoma Territory was intertwined with that of black settlers--new arrivals in the territory, some of them former slaves who gathered to establish a farming community and built a higher education institution for…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Activism, Agricultural Education, Alumni
Buckley, John J.; Feldbaum, Eleanor G. – 1979
To determine why blacks are underrepresented in the field of nursing, a three-year nationwide study was undertaken to examine and evaluate the recruitment and retention strategies used in schools of nursing, and to identify the most successful ones. Forty schools in 16 states were selected by their geographic and program representativeness; they…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Students
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1979
Transcripts from a four-part National Public Radio "Options in Education" series are presented in this publication. The first program examines student cheating at colleges. Students and faculty discuss methods of cheating, reasons for cheating, student attitudes toward cheating, specific instances of cheating, and provide insights into why…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Black Education, Cheating
Ehrlich, Thomas, Ed. – 2000
The essays in this volume center around John Dewey's mandate that American democracy requires civic engagement to realize the potential of its citizens and its communities, and that education is the key to that engagement. Following an introductory chapter, "Higher Education and the Development of Civic Responsibility" (Anne Colby and Thomas…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Church Related Colleges, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility
Ratcliffe, Ella B. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1932
This publication is a handbook of scholarships and fellowships available in colleges and universities of the United States. Information regarding scholarships and fellowships available at institutions of higher learning in the United States is of vital interest to many thousands of students. While several lists of the scholarship offerings for…
Descriptors: Educational History, Student Financial Aid, Access to Education, Paying for College
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
This report contains statistics of 339 institutions which are engaged primarily in the preparation of teachers for positions in elementary and high schools. These institutions are classified as teachers colleges, State normal schools, city normal schools, county normal schools, and private normal schools. In order to make the report as complete as…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Teacher Education Programs, High Schools, Certification
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1994
Presents statistics on a variety of subjects related to blacks in higher education: (1) survey statistics from the 25 highest-ranked national colleges and universities; (2) effects of actions of the mass media; (3) influence of intact families on black higher education; (4) how affirmative action encourages blacks to attend college; and (5) black…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Admission
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2002
These articles include such topics as: affirmative action and black student dropouts; declines in black faculty nationwide; the travails of a small black college; the first black woman to head a U.S. medical school; African American college athletes; black college Web sites; why early decision programs are bad for blacks; and Bob Jones University…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Students, Black Teachers
Hoffman, Charlene M.; And Others – 1996
This report presents a statistical overview of trends in the development of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). An introductory chapter reviews the history of HBCUs and discusses the current status in terms of enrollment, degrees conferred, staff, salaries, and finances. Nine text figures and 54 summary tables provide detailed…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Students, Budgets
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Assembly of Engineering. – 1975
Two surveys were conducted to identify the essential characteristics of minority engineering programs and to provide summaries of ongoing minority programs in a broad sampling of engineering schools. The first surveyed colleges with the largest minority enrollments, including the 6 traditionally Black schools and 45 predominantly white schools.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, American Indians, Black Colleges, Black Students
Office for Advancement of Public Negro Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1980
This brochure gives basic information and discusses the salient characteristics of historically black colleges and universities in the United States. Thirty-five institutions are included in this category, primarily in the southern states. The history of the colleges, as a group, is briefly given, and these topics are addressed: low-tuition…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Curriculum
Wilson, William L. – 1980
Innovative programs in higher education that have been supported by American business during 1978-80 are described. Programs that have been selected for overall excellence, as part of the awards program sponsored by the Council for Financial Aid to Education, are examined, as are programs judged to have merit. The following award-winning programs…
Descriptors: Athletics, Banking, Black Colleges, Blacks
Rhodes, Frank H. T., Ed. – 1997
This book presents 11 case studies of effective partnership fundraising at various institutions of higher education. After a foreword by Peter McE. Buchanan and a preface and introduction by Frank H.T. Rhodes, chapters are: (1) Successful Fund Rising at a Large Private Research University: Cornell University (Frank H. T. Rhodes and Inge T.…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Case Studies, Church Related Colleges, Community Colleges
Klein, Arthur J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
A very large and important part of the extension work of universities, colleges, and departments of education is done through correspondence, thus giving to large numbers of men and women who cannot go to college or attend set courses of lectures an opportunity to profit by well-directed reading and study and by scholarly criticism. The purpose…
Descriptors: Educational History, Correspondence Study, Extension Education, College Programs
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