This collection of articles on blacks in higher education includes such topics as: college endowments; black studies as a major; why affirmative action does little harm to white students; why blacks are more likely than whites to drop out of college; and how a college education acts as a defense for blacks in an economic downturn. (SM)

Presents a statistical record of the progress of African Americans in U.S. institutions of higher education, focusing on the black-white higher education equality index; statistics that measure the state of racial inequality; students and faculty from black African nations at U.S. colleges and universities; and the pay scale of faculty at black…

Ranks the 26 leading U.S. universities according to their relative success in attracting, enrolling, and graduating African American students as well as their progress in bringing black professors to their campuses. Universities are ranked according to a blending of 13 widely accepted quantitative measures of institutional racial integration. Duke…

Most high-ranking U.S. colleges and universities have firm programs in place to recruit black students to their campuses. However, very few leading universities are taking measures to increase racial diversity in their professional ranks. Presents data from a survey of the nation's 27 highest-ranked colleges regarding institutions with announced…

Surveyed the 25 highest-ranked U.S. business schools regarding the status of black students and faculty. Results found that blacks continued to show very slow progress in business school enrollments and in securing faculty positions at these schools. Some schools had no black faculty members, and 14 of the 25 had no tenured black faculty members.…

State surveys investigated black-white SAT scoring gaps. The performance gap was very low in North Dakota and very high in the District of Columbia. It was lowest in states with few, if any, racially segregated inner city schools and highest in the District of Columbia, where many whites attend quality private schools while most blacks attend…

Describes a Web portal constructed by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology dedicated to improving middle school science, mathematics, and technology instruction. The portal emulates emerging corporate practices of knowledge management and process reinvention through information technology, and offers middle school teachers across Indiana a…

Discusses the three-step implementation of an instructional technology tool and associated pedagogy to support teaching and learning computer programming concepts. The Flowchart Interpreter (FLINT) was proven through experiments to support novice programmers better than the traditional textbook approach. (EV)

Asserts that students have high technological expectations which necessitate a reevaluation of teaching methodologies and a reinvention of the classroom. Explores some of the realities and hype surrounding the reason for and existence of technology in the college foreign language classroom. Focuses on the wiring of classrooms for technology,…

Surveyed faculty to determine the extent to which benchmarks of high-quality distance education developed by the Institute of Higher Education are being incorporated in such courses. Found that most benchmarks in the categories of course development, teaching/learning process, and course structure are being implemented. Faculty support was an…

Conceptualizes the pedagogical shift, driven by Web-based technology, from students being contributors to, in addition to consumers of, learning materials in terms of a move from an acquisition orientation to a contribution orientation. Describes a Web-supported course as an example of this contribution-oriented pedagogy as well as of other…

Describes the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an effort involving over 120 universities around the world. It aims to enhance the skills of all graduate students preparing theses or dissertations so that they are empowered to create an electronic thesis or dissertation and to effectively use digital libraries. (EV)

Describes a conceptual framework that can be used to guide the design of distributed learning environments, particularly those that use the capabilities of computer and Internet technology. Discusses implications for improving online collaboration among learners and for informing future designs of computer-supported collaborative learning…

Describes evaluation criteria for Web-based textbook supplements. The metric includes measures of site access and usability, resource identification and documentation, information structure and design, navigation within the document, quality of links, aesthetic and affective aspects, and pedagogical/disciplinary needs. Provides examples of…

Describes development of the Courseware Engineering Methodology (CEM), created to guide novices in designing effective courseware. Discusses CEM's four models: pedagogical (concerned with the courseware's pedagogical aspects), conceptual (dealing with software engineering), interface (relating to human-computer interaction), and hypermedia…