In order to increase the number of health care providers in underserved communities, numerous efforts are being made to increase the number of Black students in the health professions. Research supports the idea that individuals from minority populations seek doctors of the same race or culture. In an effort to provide increased health care to…

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) represent one of many types of institutions in the American system of higher education. Comparatively little attention has been given to the campus' executive leader, namely the president. Our study describes early twenty-first century contributions to and challenges of public land-grant…

Experiences of eight Black high-achieving college junior and senior mathematics majors are examined to discern which social and cultural factors shape success and persistence in mathematics. College persistence literature as well as mathematics education studies that document Black students' success in mathematics were used as frameworks to…

Black undergraduate college women's construction of feminism and the intersection of race and gender categories at a predominantly White public college in the Midwestern United States were explored as part of a larger ethnographic study about women's college experiences and identity. This study examines 30 women's implicit notions of identity as…

Experiences of first year female Black students who self-identified themselves as lesbian and attended a historically Black university are examined. A reconceptualized Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity and the Multidimensional Identity Model were used to establish the framework for this study. Overall the study provided a current identity…

Results of exploratory research on defense mechanisms and psychiatric symptomatology are reported about Black students enrolled in classes on the campus of one Historically Black College and University. Theoretical influences are twofold: ego mechanisms of defense conceptualized hierarchically and a culture-specific view of defense mechanism…

Determining the extent to which faculty-student mentoring predicts satisfaction in college for Black students was our purpose for this study. We performed a secondary analysis of data from a national sample obtained from the College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ) Research Program. The CSEQ consists of 191 items designed to measure the…

Both White faculty members and Black students bring their own cross-cultural ideology to mentoring relationships. Additionally, institutional culture and type often impact cross-cultural relationships via institutional mission, faculty expectation, and student development. Some researchers have found that race is not a factor in cross-cultural…

The purpose of the present research brief is to report a novel characteristic of role model choice that may be unreported in the literature for black males and to assess this finding in relation to perceived attractiveness of self and a member of the opposite sex. The study found that the proportion of males choosing themselves as their own role…

Reviews the author's experiences with white students during courses taught by him in Afro-American history at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, between 1969 and 1972. Concludes that "such black studies as that at Cleveland State University have reached significant numbers of white, specifically ethnic, students." (Author/JM)

Proposes that metropolitan colleges be established to give disadvantaged inner city youth the cultural experiences that they would not otherwise have. The metropolitan college is seen "as an institution whose central purpose is the education of young people by any and all means necessary." (Author/JM)

After tracing the history of Blacks in higher education from slavery to the present, the author discusses the relative merits of Black versus White higher education institutions for Black students. (RLV)

Postscores provide evidence that the phonological patterns of black college students can be improved significantly as a result of speech remediation techniques. However, these remediation techniques do not seem to affect self concept either positively or negatively. (Author/AM)

Notes that the accounts of most students and inmates indicate that the acquisition of a racist mythology begins early in their childhood. (Author)

Two classes of college students -- one an "Introduction to Teaching" class and the other an "Audiovisual Materials and Methods" class -- were taught using as aids the chalkboard, instructional films, the bulletin board, tape recordings, and overhead transparencies; students rated their attitudes towards each of the five aids. (JM)