Historically Black Colleges and Universities

1. Introduction
Marybeth Gasman, Christopher L. Tudico

Part 1. Triumphs

2. For Alma Mater and the Fund: The United Negro College Fund’s National Pre-Alumni Council and the Creation of the Next Generation of Donors
Noah D. Drezner

3. On Firm Foundations: African American Black College Graduates and their Doctoral Student Development in the Ivy League
Pamela Felder Thompson

4. Bennett and Spelman Colleges: Creating Black Female PhDs in the Sciences
Shannon Gary

5. Social Justice, Visionary, and Career Project: The Discourses of Black Women Leaders at Black Colleges
Gaetane Jean-Marie

Part 2. Troubles

6. McCarthyism’s Effect on Black Colleges in Pennsylvania: A Historical Case Study of Cheyney and Lincoln Universities
Patricia C. Williams

7. The Forgotten GI: The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act and Black Colleges, 1944–54
Meghan Wilson

8. Race, Social Justice, and the Jackson State University Shootings
Mark S. Giles

9. On Opposite Sides of the Track: New Orleans’ Urban Universities in Black and White
Valera T. Francis, Amy E. Wells

10. The Impact of a Federal Civil Rights Investigation on Central State University of Ohio, 1981–2005
Kristen Safier

11. The Retention Planning Process at Texas Southern University: A Case Study
Jacqueline Fleming, Albert Tezeno, Sylvia Zamora

Part 3. Taboos

12. Color and Class: The Promulgation of Elitist Attitudes at Black Colleges
Bianca Taylor

13. Not a Laughing Matter: The Portrayals of Black Colleges on Television
Adam Parrott-Sheffer

14. Sexual Behavior Patterns and Sexual Risk-Taking among Women and Men at a Historically Black University
Nelwyn B. Moore, J. Kenneth Davidson, Robert Davis

Keywords: Education, International and Comparative Education, Higher Education, Organic Chemistry, Structural Geology, Educational Policy and Politics