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Black Colleges New Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Bruce A. Jones, M. Christopher Brown II, ed., Kassie Freeman
ISBN: 1-56750-586-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-586-3
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2004
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £71.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. Notwithstanding, there is scant treatment of these key institutions in the research literature. There is a need for a comprehensive and cogent understanding of the primary characteristics of the policies and practices endemic to black colleges. This book provides the scholarly basis requisite to organize, give meaning to, and shape the analyses and applications of policy and practice within the black college. The collected chapters respond to the paucity of research literature addressing these institutions. In each chapter, the authors acknowledge the specific characterisics of black colleges that make them unique. Understanding the fundamental characteristics that shape black colleges is critical to gaining a comprehensive understanding of higher education at large. The policy and praxis challenges exhibited at black colleges serve as exemplars to how all colleges perform their respective functions in society. Black colleges serve as testimonies to the transformative power of adversity, and beacons of possibility in and era of retrenchment and ambiguity. These roles call on black colleges to aid and assist in creating an opportunity for educational change.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
    The State of Research on Black Colleges: An Introduction by M. Christopher Brown II and Kassie Freeman
    The Policy Context
    The Changing Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Vistas on Dual Missions, Desegregation, and Diversity by M. Christopher Brown II, Ronyelle D. Bertrand, and Saran Donahoo
    The Significance of Historically Black Colleges for High Achievers: Correlates of Standardized Test Scores in African American Students by Jacqueline Fleming
    Attracting the Best and Brightest: College Choice Influences at Black Colleges by Kassie Freeman and Nicole McConald
    Other Things Being Equal: Federal Aid and the Politics of Equal Opportunity for Historically Black Colleges and Universities by Paul Green
    Inter-institutional Policies: Initiatives for Advancing African American Success in Higher Education by Wynetta Lee
    HBCUs and the Digital Divide: Survival of the Fittest by Allison N. Clark
    Praxis Issues
    College in Black and White: White Faculty at Black Colleges by Lenoar Foster and Janet A. Guyden
    Orientation and Colleagues: Making a Difference in the Socialization of Black College Faculty by Barbara J. Johnson
    Toward Strategic Planning: Issues and Status of Black Colleges by Bruce Anthony Jones
    The Challenges and Needs of High Achieving Black College Students by Sharon Fries-Britt
    Black Colleges and Universities in America and South Africa: Common Histories and Future Destinies? by Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela dn Gail E. Thomas
    Appendices
    About the Contributors
    Index
About the Author: M. CHRISTOPHER BROWN II is Kauffman/Missouri Endowed Professor of Education and Interdisciplinary Studies and Assistant Dean for Institutional Research at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

KASSIE FREEMAN is Dean at Dillard University.
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