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Unearthing Promise and Potential: Our Nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Unearthing Promise and Potential: Our Nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Born out of extreme racism and shepherded through the centuries by enduring hope, the nation's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have educated countless African Americans. These institutions, which boast great diversity, are treasures that illuminate the talent and potential of African Americans. This volume provides an overview of the salient issues facing HBCUs as well as the many contributions that these historic institutions make to our country as a whole. Topics include Historic Origins of HBCUs Desegregation Students Presidental Leadership Faculty and Governance Issues Fundraising Federal and State Policy Curriculum Thoughts about the future With suggestions for addi...

Educating a Diverse Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Educating a Diverse Nation

Educating a Diverse Nation turns a spotlight on colleges and universities dedicated to serving minority and low-income students of all ages. It highlights innovative programs that are advancing persistence and learning, and it identifies specific strategies for empowering nontraditional students to succeed despite many obstacles.

Linking Theory to Practice – Case Studies for Working with College Students
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Linking Theory to Practice – Case Studies for Working with College Students

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-04-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Framed by an overview of theories that guide student affairs practice, the cases in this book present a challenging array of problems that student affairs and higher education personnel face, such as racial diversity, alcohol abuse, and student activism. The revised edition has thirty new cases, with content on issues that reflect the complexity of today’s environment at colleges and universities, including the expanded use of social networking, the rise in mental health issues, bullying, study abroad, and athletics. The fully updated edition includes new references, expanded theory with an increased emphasis on race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and three entirely new chapters on ad...

Fostering Success of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in STEM
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Fostering Success of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in STEM

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In Fostering Success of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in STEM, well-known contributors share salient institutional characteristics, unique aspects of climate, pedagogy, and programmatic initiatives at MSIs that are instrumental in enhancing the success of racial and ethnic minority students in STEM education.

Changing the Face of Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Changing the Face of Engineering

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-15
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

How can academic institutions, corporations, and policymakers foster African American participation and advancement in engineering? For much of America’s history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists and engineers. Those who did enter STEM fields found that their inventions and discoveries were often neither recognized nor valued. Even today, particularly in the field of engineering, the participation of African American men and women is shockingly low, and some evidence indicates that the situation might be getting worse. In Changing the Face of Engineering, twenty-four eminent scholars address the underrepresentation of African Americans i...

The Morehouse Mystique
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

The Morehouse Mystique

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-04
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Tells the history of the Morehouse School of Medicine, situating the school in the context of the history of medical education for Blacks and race relations throughout the country. --From publisher description.

Higher Education for African Americans Before the Civil Rights Era, 1900-1964
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Higher Education for African Americans Before the Civil Rights Era, 1900-1964

City normal schools and municipal colleges in the upward expansion of higher education for African Americans / Michael Fultz. -- Nooses, sheets, and blackface: white racial anxiety and black student presence at six midwest flagship universities, 1882-1937 / Richard M. Breaux. -- A nauseating sentiment, a magical device, or a real insight? Interracialism at Fisk University in 1930 / Lauren Kientz Anderson. -- "Only organized effort will find the way out!": faculty unionization at Howard University, 1918-1950 / Timothy Reese Cain. -- Competing visions of higher education: the College of Liberal Arts, faculty and the administration of Howard University, 1939-1960 / Louis Ray. -- The first black talent identification program: The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, 1947-1968 / Linda M. Perkins.

Socio-Economic Crises in Black and Brown Communities in the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 169

Socio-Economic Crises in Black and Brown Communities in the United States

Socio-Economic Crises in Black and Brown Communities in the United States provides insight and awareness concerning crises that exist in underserved Black and brown communities in the United States. The contributors explore these issues through the lenses of public policy, human behavior, environmental injustice, socioeconomic status, gentrification, psychological limitation, Black history distortions, as well as disparities in health, technology, race, gender, and class. They are products of various backgrounds, which provides diverse perspectives from their life experiences.

Engineering and Social Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Engineering and Social Justice

This book is aimed at engineering academics worldwide, who are attempting to bring social justice into their work and practice, or who would like to but don't know where to start. This is the first book dedicated specifically to University professionals on Engineering and Social Justice, an emerging and exciting area of research and practice. An international team of multidisciplinary authors share their insights and invite and inspire us to reformulate the way we work. Each chapter is based on research and yet presents the outcomes of scholarly studies in a user oriented style. We look at all three areas of an engineering academic's professional role: research, teaching and community engage...

Understanding the Working College Student
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Understanding the Working College Student

How appropriate for today and for the future are the policies and practices of higher education that largely assume a norm of traditional-age students with minimal on-campus, or no, work commitments?Despite the fact that work is a fundamental part of life for nearly half of all undergraduate students – with a substantial number of “traditional” dependent undergraduates in employment, and working independent undergraduates averaging 34.5 hours per week – little attention has been given to how working influences the integration and engagement experiences of students who work, especially those who work full-time, or how the benefits and costs of working differ between traditional age-st...