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ERIC Number: EJ655959
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-5748
Uneven Stories: Successful Black Collegians at a Black and a White Campus.
Fries-Britt, Sharon L.; Turner, Bridget
Review of Higher Education, v25 n3 p315-30 Spr 2002
Extensive interviews with academically successful Black students attending a traditionally White and a historically Black institution produced two themes. The first concerns differences in support and campus involvement, and the second reveals how the energy of Black students is either cultivated by their connections with peers and faculty or diverted by serving as the "Black voice" on campus. (EV)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, High Achievement, Higher Education, Interviews, Student Experience
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: White Colleges
Note: Theme issue titled "Research on Historically Black Colleges."