Historically black colleges and universities: Recent trends

Academe

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-77

  Gasman, Marybeth ^a   Baez, Benjamin ^b   Drezner, Noah D ^c   Sedgwick, Katherine V ^c   Tudico, Christopher ^c   Schmid, Julie M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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References (35)

1. Steven Provasnik and Linda Shafer, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1976-2001 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Educational Statistics, 2004).
2. Fifth Circuit Court decision, last paragraph before section three, http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/ 02/02-60493-CV0.wpd.pdf (accessed May 20, 2005).
3. David J. Weerts and Clifton Conrad, "Desegregation in Higher Education," in Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia, ed. by James J. F. Forest and Kevin Kinsey, 1:165 (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2002).
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Laura W. Perna, Jeff F. Milem, Danette Gerald, Evan Baum, Heather Rowan, and Neal Hutchens, "The Status of Equity for Black Undergraduates in Public Higher Education in the South," Research in Higher Education 47 (2006): 197-228.
8. AAUP, "Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities," Policy Documents and Reports, 10th ed. (Washington, D.C., 2006), 135-140.
9. Marybeth Gasman, "Truth, Generalizations, and Stigmas: An Analysis of the Media's Coverage of Morris Brown College and Black Colleges Overall," Review of Black Political Economy (forthcoming).
10. Robert E. Millette, "Leadership and Shared Governance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Observations and Recommendations," www.lincoln.edu/ history/journal/millette1.htm (accessed May 27, 2005).
11. A riveting panel was held at the 2003 Association for the Study of Higher Education annual meeting on the HBCU presidency entitled "Voices of Resilience and Stewardship: Evolutionary Trends in HBCU Leadership." The participants were Brian Bridges (George Washington University), Shederick McClendon (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), and Shaun Harper (Pennsylvania State University).
12. James D. Anderson, The Education of Blacks in the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988);
13. Henry Drewry and Humphrey Doerman, Stand and Prosper: Private Black Colleges and Their Students (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003).
14. Daniel Thompson, Private Black Colleges at the Crossroads (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973);
15. Charles Willie and Ronald Edmonds, eds., Black Colleges in America: Challenge, Development, and Survival (New York: Teachers College Press, 1978).
16. According to the 2005-06 AAUP faculty compensation survey, at baccalaureate institutions (most HBCUs are of this type), assistant professors earn on average $46,162 as compared to assistant professors in general who earn $49,446. The greatest disparities in earnings can be found at the full-professor rank. Full professors at HBCUs earn $61,935, while full professors overall earn $77,127. The annual faculty compensation survey is published in the March-April issue of Academe.
17. An examination of the twenty institutions that have been censured by the AAUP since 1995 (the year that the last HBCU report was published) reveals that 20 percent of the institutions on the censure list are HBCUs. This is out of proportion with their representation among higher education institutions, as they make up only 3 percent of the nation's colleges and universities.
18. James T. Minor, "Faculty Governance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities," Academe 91 (May-June 2005): 34-37.
19. The following black colleges have AAUP collective bargaining chapters: Delaware State University, Central State University, Lincoln University, Wilberforce University, and Edward Waters College.
20. For more information on the homogeneity of predominantly white institutions see, Adolph Reed, The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Unions, 2005), http://www.yaleunions.org/ geso/reports/Ivy.pdf.
21. Of course, there is diversity at predominantly white institutions. For example, conflict within faculty senates occurs across gender lines as well as across disciplinary lines. However, for this report, we are concentrating on race and the divisions that manifest themselves because of it.
22. Lenoar Foster, Janet A. Guyden, and Andrea L. Miller, eds., Affirmed Action: Essays on the Academic and Social Lives of White Faculty Members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).
23. Patricia Gurin, Eric Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin, "Diversity and Higher Education: Theory and Impact on Educational Outcomes," Harvard Educational Review 72, no. 3 (2002): 332-66.
24. Kendra Hamilton, "Of Shared Governance and Trust," Black Issues in Higher Education 20, no.23 (January 1, 2004): 29-33.
25. Saran Donahoo and Wynetta Lee, "The Adversity of Diversity: Regional Associations and the Accreditation of Minority-Serving Institutions," in Understanding Minority Institutions, ed. by Marybeth Gasman, Benjamin Baez, and Caroline Sotello Turner. (New York: State University of New York Press, forthcoming).
26. Ibid.
27. Burton Bollag, "Trying Prevention Before Punishment," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2, 2006, A21.
28. National Center for Educational Statistics, www.nces.ed.gov (accessed June 5, 2006).
29. From 1978 through 2002, Bluefield State College had white presidents. President Albert Walker is the first African American leader in almost twenty-five years.
30. Ben Lowe, "Cheney University Recruits White Students," Pennsylvania Daily Inquirer, February 18, 2005, 12.
31. United Negro College Fund, Fact Sheet, www.uncf.org (accessed June 5, 2006).
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. American Medical Association, www.ama-assn.org (accessed June 5, 2006).
35. For a more extensive discussion of fund-raising issues at black colleges, see Marybeth Gasman, "Black Colleges Must Tap Alumni," Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, June 22, 2006:110.