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Harvey, William B.; Harvey, Adia M. – Negro Educational Review, The, 2005
This article has two parts. In the first part, William B. Harvey shares his life story as a Brown baby. According to him, segregation was mean and ugly and humiliating. It was a state of affairs that made you know your place and that kept you in your place. If you were colored or Negro or Black or African American, your place was at the bottom.…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, School Desegregation, Urban Areas, Desegregation Litigation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1991
A compilation of 22 federal laws that pertain to higher education is presented. Sections cover general higher education programs; Native American higher education; the National Science Foundation; mathematics, science, and engineering; and assistance to specified institutions. The text of the Higher Education Act of 1965 makes up the bulk of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Black Colleges, College Libraries, Continuing Education
Massachusetts Univ., Amherst. Center for International Education. – 1987
This publication includes abstracts of all dissertations written by members of the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts since its inception in 1969. The Center offers training at the master's and doctoral levels in third world development education and nonformal education. The dissertations are based on work…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Area Studies, Black Colleges, College Role
Henson, James W.; And Others – 1981
National normative data on disabled freshmen who entered college in fall 1978 and 1980 and comparative data on nondisabled freshmen are presented, based on data collected through the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. Information was obtained from 566 institutions in 1978 and from 540 institutions in 1980. The following institutional…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Colleges, Church Related Colleges, College Freshmen
Hunter, Jacqueline; And Others – 1980
The implementation and evaluation of a project at Xavier University of Louisiana that was designed to increase performance and academic persistence in entry-level mathematics and science courses are described. The University's CAUSE Project was a cooperative effort by the departments of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Strategies of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Achievement Tests, Biology
Ratcliffe, Ella B., Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This bulletin is the third which the Bureau of Education has published under the title "Accredited Higher Institutions." The first bulletin was published in 1917 and the second in 1922. The primary purpose in issuing the bulletin from time to time is to furnish to college officials, to State boards of education, and to teachers and students, lists…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Standards
Kelly, Fred J.; Ratcliffe, Ella B. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
The depression of the past few years led colleges and universities to seek new ways in which to assist their financially needy students. In January 1937 the Office of Education requested all colleges and universities to send it descriptions of the projects they had devised. The responses to this request indicated a very cooperative spirit on the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Economic Climate, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid
Black Issues in Higher Education, 1997
Issues prominent in higher education in 1996 affecting people of color are reviewed including: legislation, litigation concerning race-based aid and admission; anti-immigrant sentiment; new provost position at Howard University (District of Columbia); major anthology of African American literature; athlete eligibility standards; student aid;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Education
Castenell, Louis A., Ed.; Tarule, Jill M., Ed. – 1997
This collection of papers examines the issue of minority and female deans in colleges of education, offering the current thinking by a group of minority and female deans of education. Part 1, "Changing Leadership: Tensions within Academic and Social Roles," presents the first four chapters: (1) "Surviving the Middle Passage: The Absent Legacy of…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrators, Alternative Assessment, Black Colleges
Willie, Charles Vert – 1981
The adaptations of black and of white students to each other and to their teachers and administrators in institutions of higher education are compared. Complementarity is the basic theme. Examples demonstrate the principle that the majority population that is educated in a setting that excludes the minority receives a deficient education, and vice…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Influences, Black Students, College Admission
Moody, Ferman B.; And Others – 1981
This resource facilitator guide is the product of a project conducted by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education to improve vocational education in black colleges and universities. The guide results from a search of the literature to find materials and services that may be useful and responsive to the needs identified by black…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Admission (School), Black Colleges, Black Education
Holland, Dorothy C.; Eisenhart, Margaret A. – 1990
This ethnographic study investigated why so few women become scientists or mathematicians. The study followed the lives of two groups of women, one black and one white, all with strong academic records, who were attending two southern U.S. universities, one predominantly black and the other predominantly white. The study was initiated in 1979 when…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Black Students, Career Choice
Kirschner, Alan H. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1991
This paper puts in historical perspective and reviews current policy issues unique to private, historically black college. Their historical traditions and mission of service, the paper notes black private colleges currently enroll about 17 percent of blacks in higher education and award more than one-third of baccalaureate degrees earned by…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Alumni, Black Colleges, Church Related Colleges
Jones, Lee, Ed. – 2000
This book offers 26 papers by black male scholars that examine the experience of being a black man in the academy and demonstrate what black men have contributed to the scholarly enterprise. After a Foreword by the editor and an Introduction by Lee Jones, in Part 1, "Characteristics of the Academy," includes eight papers that cover…
Descriptors: Athletics, Black Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Culture

Cassimere, Ralph, Jr. – Equity and Excellence, 1988
Discusses the resistance of both Blacks and Whites to the federally mandated integration of the Louisiana State University system and an end to its "separate but equal" policies. Emphasizes the role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). (FMW)
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Colleges, Black Education, Black History