Saving Black Colleges

Author : Alvin J. Schexnider
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137323460

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Saving Black Colleges by Alvin J. Schexnider Pdf

Saving Black Colleges makes clear the challenges, opportunities, and prospects for change historically black colleges and universities now face. Schexnider, the former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, details what he could and could not accomplish, examines how these issues affect other HBCUs, and outlines a practical way forward. Alvin J. Schexnider is the president of Schexnider & Associates, LLC. He previously served as the president of Thomas Nelson Community College and as the executive vice president and interim president of Norfolk State University.

Author : Prince, Charles B. W.,Ford, Rochelle L.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522503125

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Administrative Challenges and Organizational Leadership in Historically Black Colleges and Universities by Prince, Charles B. W.,Ford, Rochelle L. Pdf

Student retention, engagement, and success are some of the biggest challenges that administrators and university leaders face in higher education settings. As financial support and steep competition pose an issue to student acquisition and participation, especially within Historically Black Colleges and Universities, it becomes pertinent that these academic organizations implement new leadership practices to assist in the overall success of the student, as well as the institution. Administrative Challenges and Organizational Leadership in Historically Black Colleges and Universities examines how administrations in Historically Black Educational Institutions utilize different leadership techniques to overcome challenges of student retention and engagement. Focusing on student development practices, organizational collaboration, funding for institutions, and support provided from faculty and staff within Historically Black Colleges and Universities, this book is an essential reference for university administrators, educators, researchers, and graduate-level students in the fields of education and sociology.

Author : Charles L. Betsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351515641

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Historically Black Colleges and Universities by Charles L. Betsey Pdf

Beginning in the 1830s, public and private higher education institutions established to serve African-Americans operated in Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Border States, and the states of the old Confederacy. Until recently the vast majority of people of African descent who received post-secondary education in the United States did so in historically black institutions. Spurred on by financial and accreditation issues, litigation to assure compliance with court decisions, equal higher education opportunity for all citizens, and the role of race in admissions decisions, interest in the role, accomplishments, and future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities has been renewed. This volume touches upon these issues. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are a diverse group of 105 institutions. They vary in size from several hundred students to over 10,000. Prior to Brown v. Board of Education, 90 percent of African-American postsecondary students were enrolled in HBCUs. Currently the 105 HBCUs account for 3 percent of the nation's educational institutions, but they graduate about one-quarter of African-Americans receiving college degrees. The competition that HBCUs currently face in attracting and educating African-American and other students presents both challenges and opportunities. Despite the fact that numerous studies have found that HBCUs are more effective at retaining and graduating African-American students than predominately white colleges, HBCUs have serious detractors. Perhaps because of the increasing pressures on state governments to assure that public HBCUs receive comparable funding and provide programs that will attract a broader student population, several public HBCUs no longer serve primarily African-American students. There is reason to believe, and it is the opinion of several contributors to this book, that in the changing higher education environment HBCUs will not survive, particularly those that are

Author : Jelani M. Favors
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469648347

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Shelter in a Time of Storm by Jelani M. Favors Pdf

2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award Finalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism. Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.

Author : Alem Hailu,Mohamed S. Camara,Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666902754

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Historically Black Colleges and Universities in a Globalizing World by Alem Hailu,Mohamed S. Camara,Sabella Ogbobode Abidde Pdf

Historically Black Colleges and Universities were established to provide the opportunity for higher education to people of African descent in the era of segregation. The visions, values, and heritages these schools embodied enabled them to chart new frontiers of learning, scholarship, and public engagement for and beyond the United States. Historically Black Colleges and Universities in a Globalizing World: The Past, the Present, and the Future, edited by Alem Hailu, Mohamed S. Camara, and Sabella O. Abidde examines the history and contribution of these institutions in the broader national and global sociopolitical context of the changes taking place in the nation and the world. Collectively, the contributors offer reflections and visions by both looking back and forward to find viable answers to the challenges and opportunities HBCUs face in the new century and beyond. They argue that as the world convulses by the new global dynamics of emerging pandemics, economic dislocations, and resource constraints, HBCUs are uniquely positioned to meet these challenges.

Author : Marybeth Gasman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801891854

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Envisioning Black Colleges by Marybeth Gasman Pdf

The multifaceted story of the UNCF. Winner, Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association Etched into America's consciousness is the United Negro College Fund's phrase "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." This book tells the story of the organization's efforts on behalf of black colleges against the backdrop of the cold war and the civil rights movement. Founded during the post–World War II period as a successor to white philanthropic efforts, the UNCF nevertheless retained vestiges of outside control. In its early years, the organization was restrained in its critique of segregation and reluctant to lodge a challenge against institutional and cultural racism. Through cogent analysis of written and oral histories, archival documents, and the group's outreach and advertising campaigns, historian Marybeth Gasman examines the UNCF’s struggle to create an identity apart from white benefactors and to evolve into a vehicle for black empowerment. The first history of the UNCF, Envisioning Black Colleges draws attention to the significance of black colleges in higher education and the role they played in Americans’ struggle for equality.

Author : M. Gasman,F. Commodore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137480415

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Opportunities and Challenges at Historically Black Colleges and Universities by M. Gasman,F. Commodore Pdf

In this edited collection, the authors grapple with both the strengths and challenges that HBCUs face as the nation's demographics change, from their place in American society and growing diversity on HBCU campuses to class and elitism issues to study abroad and honors programs.

Author : Martha Biondi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520282186

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The Black Revolution on Campus by Martha Biondi Pdf

Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association and the Benjamin Hooks National Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work on the American Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy.

Author : Robert T. Palmer,Dina C. Maramba,Andrew T. Arroyo,Taryn Ozuna Allen,Tiffany Fountaine Boykin,John Michael Lee Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315452272

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Effective Leadership at Minority-Serving Institutions by Robert T. Palmer,Dina C. Maramba,Andrew T. Arroyo,Taryn Ozuna Allen,Tiffany Fountaine Boykin,John Michael Lee Jr. Pdf

Strong, effective, and innovative leadership is critical for institutions of higher education, especially for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). Indeed, research and examples have shown leadership instability among some types of MSIs, while discussions and research on effective leadership for other MSIs is noticeably absent from the extant literature. In this volume, noted experts, researchers, and leaders discuss opportunities and challenges for leadership across the full range of MSIs, while creating a dialogue on leadership models and best practices. Chapters explore issues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions(HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs). This book helps higher education and student affairs scholars and administrators unpack contemporary leadership issues and strategies, and synthesizes best practices to help MSI leaders increase the effectiveness and sustainability of their institutions.

Author : Russell Rickford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199861484

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We Are an African People by Russell Rickford Pdf

During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often accused of teaching hate and were routinely harassed by authorities. Yet these institutions served as critical mechanisms for transmitting black consciousness. Founded by activist-intellectuals and other radicalized veterans of the civil rights movement, the schools strove not simply to bolster the academic skills and self-esteem of inner-city African-American youth but also to decolonize minds and foster a vigorous and regenerative sense of African identity. In We Are An African People, historian Russell Rickford traces the intellectual lives of these autonomous black institutions, established dedicated to pursuing the self-determination that the integrationist civil rights movement had failed to provide. Influenced by Third World theorists and anticolonial campaigns, organizers of the schools saw formal education as a means of creating a vanguard of young activists devoted to the struggle for black political sovereignty throughout the world. Most of the institutions were short-lived, and they offered only modest numbers of children a genuine alternative to substandard, inner-city public schools. Yet their stories reveal much about Pan Africanism as a social and intellectual movement and as a key part of an indigenous black nationalism. Rickford uses this largely forgotten movement to explore a particularly fertile period of political, cultural, and social revitalization that strove to revolutionize African American life and envision an alternate society. Reframing the post-civil rights era as a period of innovative organizing, he depicts the prelude to the modern Afrocentric movement and contributes to the ongoing conversation about urban educational reform, race, and identity.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000063526011

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America's Black Colleges and Universities by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Pdf

Author : Alvis V. Adair
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 0819137677

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Desegregation by Alvis V. Adair Pdf

Contends that desegregation is destroying Black's most vital institutional base, the Black educational system of partnership between Black elementary and secondary schools and Black colleges. The author maintains that desegregation without equitable control for Blacks and without equitable allocation of tax dollars is as unconstitutional as segregation. He suggests a policy of equity for Blacks.

Author : Robert T. Palmer,DeShawn Preston,Amanda Assalone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030166090

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Examining Effective Practices at Minority-Serving Institutions by Robert T. Palmer,DeShawn Preston,Amanda Assalone Pdf

This book aims to help expand the pipeline for executive leaders at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), where there is a high turnover in leadership, particularly among HBCUs. The editors and their contributors examine leadership at MSIs from an anti-deficit approach and create and add to the scholarly discourse around effective leadership practices, models, and strategies for leaders at MSIs. With this approach, this book seeks to help leaders of MSIs increase their leadership capacities, which may help expand the pipeline of MSI leaders and equip them with the skills to be successful in their positions.

Author : Charles Vert Willie,Ronald Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742546179

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The Black College Mystique by Charles Vert Willie,Ronald Brown Pdf

This study discussses the ways in which Black colleges can be of help to non-Blacks (including white students) who can benefit from the unique kind of education offered by such schools. It compares the culture of black colleges and universities a generation ago with those that exist today, and makes projections into the future based on a comprehensive review of professional literature and an analysis of the management skills of contemporary black college leaders.

Author : Conway, Cassandra Sligh
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522540724

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Faculty Mentorship at Historically Black Colleges and Universities by Conway, Cassandra Sligh Pdf

An important aspect of higher education is the mentorship of junior faculty by senior faculty. Addressing the vital role mentorship plays in an academic institution’s survival promotes more opportunities and positive learning experiences. Faculty Mentorship at Historically Black Colleges and Universities provides emerging research on the importance of recruiting, retaining, and promoting faculty within Historically Black Colleges and Universities. While highlighting specific issues and aspects of mentorship in college, readers will learn about challenges and benefits of mentorship including professional development, peer mentoring, and psychosocial support. This book is an important resource for academicians, researchers, students, and librarians seeking current research on the growth of mentorship in historically black learning institutions.