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Mount V. Allen III – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined access levels between the three groups of Land-Grant Institutions: the 1862 Morrill Act schools (known as the state flagship universities), the 1890 Morrill Act schools (known as the 1890 Historically Black Colleges and Universities [HBCUs]), and the 1994 Education Act schools (known as the Tribal Colleges and Universities…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Whites, Institutional Characteristics
Koonce, Nicole M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This research investigated the expository language of school-age speakers of African American English. Specifically, the study describes the language productivity, syntax, and pragmatic features present in expository language samples produced by African American children and compares their performance with White children in the extant literature.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Syntax
Saunders, Katherine M.; Williams, Krystal L.; Smith, Cheryl L. – Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, UNCF, 2016
Student loans have become an increasingly important way for students and their families to pay for college, but for students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), student loan debt is a substantial burden. Students who attend these institutions--many of whom are low-income and first-generation--must borrow at higher rates and,…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid, Black Colleges, Debt (Financial)
Nakhid, Camille; Barrow, Dorian; Broomes, Orlena – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2014
Today, almost a century after gaining access to the country's most prestigious secondary schools, determining the academic achievement of African Trinidadian students remains a challenge as neither Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Education nor the Caribbean Examination Council, the regional agency responsible for administering standardized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Jackson, Margot – Migration Policy Institute, 2012
Racial disparities in child development in the United States are significant, with a particularly pronounced disadvantage among Black children. This report focuses on the development of children of Black immigrants, comparing against the outcomes for their peers in native-born and other immigrant families. The report also compares children in the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, African American Children, Foreign Countries, Child Health
Francis, Andrew M.; Tannuri-Pianto, Maria – Economics of Education Review, 2012
This paper contributes to research on affirmative action by examining issues of equity in the context of racial quotas in Brazil. We study the experience of the University of Brasilia, which established racial quotas in 2004 reserving 20% of available admissions slots for students who self-identified as black. Based on university admissions data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affirmative Action, College Admission, Blacks
Krebs, Christopher P.; Barrick, Kelle; Lindquist, Christine H.; Crosby, Carmen M.; Boyd, Chimi; Bogan, Yolanda – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Although research has shown that undergraduate women are at high risk for experiencing sexual assault, little research has been conducted with undergraduate women who are attending a historically Black college or university (HBCU). The purpose of this research is to document the prevalence of different types of sexual assault among undergraduate…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Females, Black Colleges, Drinking
Marais, Sandra; Jordaan, Esme; Viljoen, Dennis; Olivier, Leana; de Waal, Johanna; Poole, Caroline – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of a series of brief interventions (BIs) on anti-natal alcohol consumption of women from a disadvantaged and high-risk background attending state health clinics in a rural district, Western Cape Province, South Africa. A pragmatic cluster randomised trial design was followed. All pregnant women,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Females, Drinking
Holt, Yolanda Feimster – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation evaluates the relationship between African American English and White Vernacular English as spoken in a small rural town in western North Carolina for consistencies in vowel production by group membership and for participation in the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS), a vowel rotation currently occurring in the Southern United States. A…
Descriptors: Vowels, Word Lists, Statistical Analysis, North American English
Wilson, Dawn; Allen, David – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
Are students setting themselves up for failure by taking online courses? Should students be restricted from taking online courses if they have not reached a certain GPA? Should students who fail or withdraw from an online course be required to take to traditional courses for at least one semester? At one Historically Black College or University…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Conventional Instruction, Success, Grade Point Average
Strand, Steve – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
This study analyses the educational progress of an entire national cohort of over 530,000 pupils in England between age 7 in 2000 and age 11 in 2004. The results show that Black Caribbean boys not entitled to free school meals, and particularly the more able pupils, made significantly less progress than their White British peers. There is no…
Descriptors: Poverty, Ethnic Groups, School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
HUSON, CAROLYN F.; SCHILTZ, MICHAEL E. – 1966
NEGRO-WHITE EMPLOYMENT DIFFERENTIALS AMONG 1964 COLLEGE GRADUATES IN LOUISIANA WERE DETERMINED BY A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF FOUR PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO AND THREE PREDOMINATLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS. THE STUDY GIVES AN OVERALL IMPRESSION OF THE SHARP EMPLOYMENT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NEGROES AND WHITES 15 MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION. NEGROES OF BOTH SEXES WERE…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Employment, Black Institutions, Black Teachers
Ehrlich, Howard J. – 1974
Tabular data presented in this report comprise: total and black population of the U.S. for every census period from 1790 to 1970, the 50 cities with the largest black population for 1970, an index of residential segregation for 1960, selected views of age and sex, life and death, the educational profile of white and black in 1970, family income…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Employment, Black History, Blacks

Byrd, W. Michael – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1990
Traces the history and underlying causes of health care discrimination and deprivation for Blacks compared with other Americans. This disparity is a result of policymakers' attempt to frame the problem in nonracial terms, physicians' attitudes, and scientific myths about Black inferiority. Calls for an elimination of institutional racism in health…
Descriptors: Black Stereotypes, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Ethics

Jones, Allan P.; And others – 1976
One hundred and sixty-six Black and 1,451 White sailors assigned to the same shipboard divisions were compared on job satisfaction. Differences in satisfaction were explored with regard to two hypothesized sources-differences in individual needs and differences in work conditions. Individual perceptions of the work environment were measured by a…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Enlisted Personnel