Examines several activities that directly influence the future of special educational programs in higher education and presents problems that must be resolved if significant expansion of special educational programs is to be achieved. Funding, staffing, and accountability are discussed in detail and other crucial areas are reviewed. (Author)

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff has designed and developed programs to enhance the status of minority students, maximize the performance of Black students and teachers on standardized tests, increase the number of Black teachers in Arkansas, and revitalize the image of teacher education at UAPB. (MT)

Summarizes the findings of a symposium on identifying and developing programs for gifted minority children. The school is the major agency for preparing the gifted minority for productive citizenship, and the key element is the teacher's ability to recognize and support the student's potential. (KH)

This publication discusses the subject of black studies programs in 29 American colleges and universities. Issued initially in 1974, the report is based on a survey of black studies programs in a limited number of colleges and universities. The survey was prompted by the need to provide critical information about the development and implementation…

Presents first phase of Project REACH (Risk Behavior Is Adolescence: Prediction and Prevention), school-based project aimed at identifying factors associated with risk and resiliency in urban African American youth, and evaluating role of school-based adolescent health centers for this population. Identifies methodological challenges and discusses…

Careful observation of African-American male students and the information they provide about Black male culture can provide student-affairs administrators with new theories and valuable information about how to better serve them. Provides a summary of the journal issue, including four annotated references. (EMK)

A dual degree program in engineering involving Atlanta University and Georgia Tech succeeds in attracting students who might otherwise not be drawn to engineering. The Dual Degree Program illustrates how black schools can cooperate with predominantly white ones, how liberal arts schools can work with technical and professional ones, and how…

This is a report from a conference of selected black educators, professionals, and citizens that was convened to provide an outline of the kinds of educational concerns and problems affecting blacks in America which the National Institute of Education (NIE) might use as a basis for formulating its research and development (R&D) efforts. The…

While American higher education institutions are trying to provide increased educational opportunities for Black South Africans, Black South African leaders are concerned that some educational and financial aid programs are being hastily planned and ill-conceived. (MSE)

African American college presidents consider how they would spend a hypothetical $30 million grant for higher education for blacks in the United States. Suggestions range from individual grants for programs and institutions to establishment of particular institutes and centers to overall support for teacher education for African Americans. (SLD)

Black studies, and other ethnic studies, have had their supporters and opponents. Their place in the university curriculum needs further careful study. This discussion proposes a new phase for new conditions. (Editor)

Educational policymakers have a responsibility to initiate programs that will address the diverse needs of Black girls and help them overcome the damaging effects of race and sex role stereotyping. (Author/KH)

The model for higher education suggested here entails radically different responsibilities and commitments on the part of educators. The instruction and curriculum must be made adaptive to the needs and motivations of the students; failures in learning must be perceived as a function of faulty curriculum. (Author)

Author focused on the question of whether Black English qualified as a second language and thereby for special instruction in the schools. He surveyed the ramifications of recent legislative funding of bilingual education. (Editor/RK)