This publication summarizes an institute sponsored by the Negro College Committee on Adult Education, which was an outgrowth of a 1958 meeting of presidents and deans of Negro Colleges in the South held in Chicago to examine what Southern Negro colleges should be doing in continuing and community education. Sponsored partly in cooperation with the…

Morehouse College, which has played a central role in shaping the nation's black middle class leadership, is valued as a producer of positive counterpoints to a society with negative images of black males. The academic program and current endowment goals of its new president are described. (MLW).

Black progress is tied to the overriding national concern for economic development and the challenge of international competition. The experience of black colleges shows that unequally prepared students can be educated to high levels of performance. Some public policy initiatives are suggested. (MLW)

Economic factors have had a significant impact in lowering the attainments of minority groups in graduate education. A sluggish market for college teachers, high costs of graduate education, limited financial support, and more lucrative opportunities in other fields have lured many minorities out of the Ph.D. pipeline. (MLW)

The steady emergence of small-college honors programs in the early 1970s and the subsequent rapid growth of community college honors programs after 1978 are reviewed. The many successes in these colleges to capitalize on their existing strengths have avoided the problems of larger, university programs. (Author/MSE)

Discusses components of the University of North Carolina's consent decree, and holds that the "remedies" proposed therein actually will prevent the achievement of equal educational opportunity in North Carolina. (GC)

This book focuses on approximately 250 nonprofit, two-year colleges with a student body that is entirely female or at least 25% Black, Hispanic, or Native American. These special-focus colleges include two-year colleges, historically black colleges (HBC), Hispanic-serving institutions (HIS), and tribal colleges, with some of the schools being…

Through naturalistic inquiry, the study reported in this book sought to determine the inner qualities that compel some black males to persist and overcome adversity, while others of their socioeconomic class quit and fail. The research was designed to identify the factors that led to the successful achievement of African American male students at…

The 11 chapters in this book describe successful innovative programs of service learning at the undergraduate level. Emphasis is on how different kinds of institutions, facing different internal and external circumstances, have made service-learning an institutional asset. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction: A New Model of Excellence" (Edward…

Argues that it is inappropriate to attempt to achieve excellence in education by undermining the participation of Black athletes in intercollegiate athletics through reliance on standardized test scores, long viewed as unpredictable for measuring a student's ultimate resources. (CMG)

The history of Black colleges and universities is chronicled through excerpts from five articles. Four stages in the colleges' historical development are noted, and the history treats the topics of origins, objectives, legislative landmarks, controversies and conflicts, foreign language education's role, curriculum development, enrollment,…

Describes role of state coordinating agencies for higher education in Black education. Details the history and development of various states of Black coalitions which attempt to influence state planning policy emphasizing their involvement in issues regarding state financial support, Black enrollment and graduation, and mergers between…

Data show that the the "brain drain" of talented Black students from historically Black institutions to White ones, earlier traced from the 1930s to 1970, continued from 1970 to 1978. Black students with affluent, well-educated parents, and whose fathers have high-status occupations, also shifted from Black to White colleges. (MSE)

The presence of Black faculty to serve as role models was seen to have direct bearing on Black student enrollments in both integrated and Black schools of nursing. Black educators are more committed than White educators to Black student enrollment and carry on the major recruitment and retention efforts. (CT)

The author discusses the effects of the Brown decision in terms of the following: his personal experiences, the status of Black colleges, the meaning of equality in education, and areas of concern for the future. (Author/MC)