...topic on HBCU’S being under siege. Many people ask questions like do we still need HBCU’S and are they serving their purpose. According to the sociology text book during the nineteenth century many states did not yet have laws requiring education for everyone. Education was considered a luxury available only to children of upper class. Education for slaves were prohibited by law until the 1900. African Americans were largely denied any kind of formal education. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) were founded on the premise to enrich the education for colored students around the country during 1964. The once proud choice to attend a school surrounded by culture, scholars and people who shared the same skin color, is gradually decreasing as HBCU’s begins to lose its place as the heart of African American education. Many HBCU’S close down because they can no longer carry the heavy financial burden of providing education for the African American community. The established institutions are supposed to provide a higher education for black people. HBCU’S are undergoing hardships in today’s society , causing them to plunge into somewhat of a...
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...fallen over time, from 18 percent in 1976 to 8 percent in 2014” (“Historically Black Colleges 1). HBCU’s were only made to learn basic skills until segregation. For instance, a group of black students took the advantage to attend Central High School when it first became integrated in 1957. “HBCU’s existed as federal inventions to offer black students opportunities to learn a basic skill or a trade. These institutions have now flourished with a plethora of undergraduate and graduate programs, some being the best in the country” (HBCU vs PWI 1). However, the top HBCU, Spelman College, is an all-female school (“These Historically Black” 1). The next HBCU ranking is Howard university with only 4,222 men applying and only 469 men...
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...Hey Shantel, I enjoyed the history you included into your discussion as to why HBCU's were started in the first place which I think the article was missing. As a Hispanic minority myself I often feel that I am more welcomed by other minorities. I just commented on Christina’s post and felt she was on point that in a perfect world we would actually feel equal but we are not in a perfect world. I agree with you that HBCU’s also lack funding just look at Norfolk State and the fact they have been on probation with their accreditation this whole last year? How is this supposed to make incoming students feel? I know I wouldn’t even want to enroll in to a college waste all that money in tuition just to have the college lose its accreditation mid-semester....
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...The first article I read detailed about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) versus Historically White Colleges and Universities (HWCU). What I gathered from the article was it particularly did not matter weather African American students attended a HBCU or HWCU, their function in society was based upon their assets or personal characteristics and not their schooling. It also mentioned that most of the African American females earned less than African American males that attended the same HBCU or HWCU. Most people believed that students that attended HBCU’s have a lower GPA and SAT scores. Which in turn, the students that attended HBCU’s have lower job earnings that their counterparts from HWCU’s. My personal opinion is it doesn’t matter if someone has attended a HBCU or HWCU, it really depends if the person is willing to put in the work to become successful. Author: Kim, Mikyong Minsun Published: Fall 2011 Title: Early Career Earnings of African American Students: The Impact if Attendance at Historically Black versus Historically White Colleges and Universities. Source: Journal or Negro Education Volume: Vol. 80 Issue 4, p505-520 Date Retrieved: August 22, 2012 The second article I read detailed about how students viewed their careers and the importance of “career education”. Career education is the need of technical information, skills, and awareness about what a career should be. It also stated that most students have made a choice about what career...
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...opportunity, gaps in college enrollment between minority and white students remain. Which then brings us back to here and now. How can we as a country achieve diversity within higher education? As our workforce becomes more diverse, following new laws and regulations for equality, our colleges and universities seem to be, for lack of better words, stuck and unable to fully serve the changing demographics of our workforce. Matthew Lynch is the author of the article Diversity in Higher Education: How to Get American Colleges to Catch Up to the 21st Century, takes on the perspective of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Lynch contests that HBCU’s stand at the forefront of diversity for higher education through welcoming all students and instilling cultural awareness. Although this may be true, Lynch proceeds to explain ways HBCU’s can better prepare their students (minorities and women) for the cruel reality of the workforce. Lynch refers to College Factual’s list of the most diverse college campuses in the U.S. College Factual factors in ethnicity, geographic and gender diversity in order to come up the overall diversity score and ranking. From the top 10 three schools of them are located in Hawaii. “Hawaii Pacific University, ranked #1. This private school has an overall diversity score of 91.4 percent, with ethnic diversity at 92.1. Chaminade University of Honolulu, ranked #2. This school has a ranking of 86.3 for overall diversity, with 100 percent ethnic diversity...
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...The Effect of African-American Students Socioeconomic Status on how it Affects College Retention and Graduation Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Abstract With Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) graduation rates at the lowest they have been in the last decade I have become concerned. It makes me wonder what is causing this and what needs to be done in order to change this. While reading an article from The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) I found out that out of the thirty-seven of the four year HBCUs only four of them have a graduation rate over fifty percent. These institutions are Spelman College with a rate of seventy-nine percent, Howard University with a rate of sixty-four percent, Morehouse College with a rate of sixty-one percent, and Hampton University with a rate of fifty-four percent (JBHE, 2012). The purpose of paper is to find out what are some of the factors that are playing a major role in the graduation and retention rates of African-American students at HBCUs and what can be done to help increase these numbers. The Effect Students Socioeconomic Status on High it Affects College Retention and Graduation Rates The first thing that I wanted to look at was the family background of the average African-American student attending a HBCU. I wanted to know how their socioeconomic status directly affected their overall performance, and if the parental educational attainment affected the student’s success while...
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...from a different perspective. I know I did. One subject that we talked about was the different statistics of black males in college and how often they drop out. The speaker said there are more black females enrolled in college than males. Also the drop out rate for African American males is a lot higher than African American females. Another topic that was discussed in the presentation was how the African American males have been perceived by society. He spoke about how we need to change the way society thinks by changing our actions. Only we can make the change. We as a people also become very accepting of things, he says because things have been one way for so long no one wants to step out and change anything. We complain about our HBCU’s but refuse to take a stand and strive for change. He also gave the example like all of the teachers that don’t really care about their jobs and half slack always get sent to the public schools in the black communities and its okay because we accept this. The only way there will be a change is if we make a...
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...Professor Rose Theavelin History of the USA Coral Gables Museum Visit: Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow Exhibit On October 26, 2014 I had the esteemed pleasure of traveling with Dr. Tameka Hobbs to the Coral Gables Museum to take part in visiting an exhibit entitled: Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges. I found exhibit to be truly intriguing, mainly because I am a product of a Historically Black Institution. Throughout my few years of studying history, I’d never known that scholars of Jewish refugee camps and Holocaust survivors, were students at HBCU’s when coming to Southern America from Germany. I also found it interesting that even though they had escaped from one hostile environment, they were unknowingly walking into another hostile environment, whether they would be a product of the hostility or not. I wonder did they feel the same as Blacks did in that point in time. I wonder if they felt enslaved or bound to a society that claimed to be a “free” society, only to make you feel otherwise. But this exhibit showed me how two totally different groups of people from two different sides of the world came together on the subjects of hatred, and exclusion. These two photos were the very first photos that I saw, and it immediately took me to a place of sorrow. To know we all on this Earth as individuals, and as a race come from a place of disrespect, oppression, and hostility and even centuries later, African Americans are still being...
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...What Makes Me A HBCU ALL-STAR? I consider myself to be an HBCU ALL-STAR because I possess the personal characteristic needed to push forward in spite of circumstances that may try to push me backwards. What is an ALL-STAR? I would define an ALL-STAR as an individual who succeeds when it appears that failure is the only option; refuses to take no as the only answer when there is always the possibilities for yes; and who understands that being successful alone is never acceptable because it is with others that one truly obtains success. There are six characteristics that I possess that make me an HBCU ALL-STAR and if others possess these characteristics as well, they can also be ALL-STARS. In this statement I will share with you my strengths because of the characteristics of passion, ability to persuade, concern/care, empowering, fearlessness and confidence. Although passion is often defined as the feeling one has for another, it is also a driving force in making dreams come true. When you have passion for something you live it. When you have passion for something you breathe it. When you have passion for something you get up with it on your mind and go to sleep with it on your mind. Passion is a strong desire, embedded in your inner-being that drives you to keep on task as your mission unfolds. Passion is what makes me an HBCU ALL-STAR. The power of persuasion, the ability to convince people that what you are saying is true with credibility and integrity is essential...
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...The Southwestern Athletic Conference Accounting 317 Professor Slabiak Strayer University The Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is authorized as a tax exempt organization (public charity) under §501(c)(3) of the IRS code. The IRS approved the exempt status because the conference is considered a qualified amateur sports organization. The code specifically states, “An organization will be a qualified amateur sports organization if it is organized and operated: 1. Exclusively to foster national or international amateur sports competition, and 2. Primarily to conduct national or international competition in sports or to support and develop amateur athletes for that competition.” (Internal Revenue Service, 2008) The SWAC is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama and is member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Membership is composed of the following ten member schools: Alabama A & M, Alabama State, Alcorn State, Mississippi Valley State, Jackson State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Grambling State, Southern (Louisiana), Prairie View A & M and Texas Southern. The schools are located in the regional area of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas which complies with IRS regulations, “The organization’s membership may be local or regional in nature” (Internal Revenue Service, 2008). According to the 2008 Form 990, the conference had revenues of $4,859,155 and expenses of $4,521,693. Revenues...
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...Infectious Diseases: The Greatest Crisis of the world ____________ A Thesis Presented to The Division of The Arts and Sciences Voorhees College ____________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science ____________ Acknowledgements I am whole-heartily thankful to my Professors at Voorhees College for their tremendous effort in my maturilication through Voorhees College. Lastly I would like to acknowledge all of the people who had any hand in the completion of this thesis. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION * What are infectious Diseases? * Types of infectious diseases * Worldwide distribution of infectious diseases * * CHAPTER 2: THE LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IS THE WORLD * Top Countries * Top Diseases * CHAPTER 3: MOST DISEASES ARE PREVENTABLE * Why are statistics so high * Minorities prevalence, morbidity, and mortality * How to prevent yourself from being a statistic * Understanding the emotional burden brought upon families who suffer from infectious Diseases * * CHAPTER 4: TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE: COUNTRY TO COUNTRY * Thorough testing while entering and exiting countries * Childhood and adult Immunizations * * CHAPTER 5: FOOD BOURNE PATHOGES * How do they affect America...
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...Best College or University for African American Students Brittany Jones Business Research Methods Dr. Beckles December 4, 2009 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Literature Review 5 Methodology 6 Conclusion 7 Limitations 7 Recommendations 8 References 9 Appendix 10 Abstract For many African Americans the idea of attending college is usually a dream, unless he/she plays a sport. Now it is much easier for high school graduates to attend college and it is no longer just limited to those who play sports. A lot of those students are first generation college students. While it is important to attend college a lot of African American students do not finish college. So when choosing a university or college it is very valuable to know the retention and attrition rate of that particular institution. This paper will discuss the importance of attending college in the African American community, the factors that contribute to the decision of what college to attend and the role diversity plays in that decision. Introduction Attending College is an observable, positive trend in the African-American community. The decision to attend college results in several important choices for future students, such as deciding which type of college to attend. There are approximately 1,800 four year colleges nationally. Certain factors students African Americans in particular should...
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...Affirmative Action, A Social Issue The black rights and women’s rights movements of the 1960’s fought against injustice and discrimination that had been suffered by minorities for years (Hudson). In response, President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 in 1961, creating a Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and mandating that projects financed by federal funding would “take affirmative action” to ensure that hiring and employment practices were free of racial bias (Hudson). Two more executive orders in 1965 and 1968 prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, and gender, giving the federal government the power to enforce this prohibition (Hudson). However, in current times, affirmative action programs have suffered setbacks. Affirmative action in education has been abolished in Texas by court order, and in California and Washington it has been terminated by public referendum (Bybee). Currently, the main question concerning affirmative action is whether or not it is the best way to combat inequality. Also: What groups should or should not have affirmative action? When will the problem be “solved” and affirmative action no longer necessary? While the United States is divided between 49% of citizens supporting affirmative action programs and 43% opposing them, many Americans have a difficult time even defining what affirmative action is (Gallup 2003). The term ‘affirmative action’ includes laws, policies, and programs designed to reduce...
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...ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY Is there a significant negative correlation between binge drinking and social relationships with traditional and non-traditional college students, ages 18-24? Stephenson, Shamiya Dr. Gray Seminar in Sociology 12.8.2013 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..........…….3 Chapter I…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…...........3 Introduction........................................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter II …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..…..4 Literature Review……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………5 Theoretical Framework………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Chapter III…………………………………….………………………………………………………………………………………..………..9 Methodology………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 Findings…………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………….…………………………11 Conclusion…………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………14 Works Cited….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………15 Survey…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..16 Informed Consent………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..20 Annotated Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….21 Abstract This research shows how binge drinking impacts college students peer relationships. Binge drinking is defined...
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...Research Proposal Status for Women of Color in Higher Education Academic Administrative Positions By: Eddie R. Washington National- Louis University ------------------------------------------------- Contents ABSTRACT 3 SITE SELECTION 4 PARTICIPANT SELECTION 4 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 4 ASSUMPTIONS 5 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 5 HISTORICAL PRECEDENCE 7 METHODOLOGY 12 DEFINITION OF TERMS 14 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 15 LITERATURE REVIEW 16 Works Cited 34 ------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT Although they are small in recognition women of color have strived hard to better the higher education system and opportunities afforded to women of colors and minorities as a whole. Yes over the past couple of decades African American women have been afforded a 60 percent increase in the number of faculty and an 80 percent increase in the amount of women administrators. Yes this is a huge percentage of change, but even with these advancement African American women still represent less than seven percent of the total percentage of administrators. The women that do manage to break down the transparent barriers encounter countless problems throughout their career that Caucasian male or females or even African American males could even grasp. The careers of these heroines are often filled with unimaginable amounts of internal/external stressors, bouts of having to cope with being oppressed, seen as tokens or having to deal with racism and/or...
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