Literature Review Qualitative Research

Despite widely ranging methods, data sources, and professional disciplines, theories and analyses scholars have stated that HBCUs make a distinctive contribution in improving African Americans students GPA (RHE96).There are many factors that play a role in the effectiveness of improving your GPA while attending an institution of higher learning such as social environment, self-concept, financial and family support (CSJ07). But African American students face the factors previously mentioned plus the constraints of being stereotyped because they attend an HBCU and the color of their skin (ed.gov07). Although de jure is consider to be a thing of the past when it comes to African Americans, HBCUs and academics, but as far as education stands all these are still in the forefront when it comes to the effectiveness of improving African American students GPA(UDE05).. This purpose of this qualitative research study is to explore by proving or disproving the effectiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities when it comes to improving African Americans students GPA. Literature Review It has always been said that students that attend class tend to pass. I …show more content…
Historically Black College and Universities are more than effective when it comes to GPA —even though these studies represent a small pool of roughly 100 institutions and captured only 1.7% of tot of HBCU college enrollment (AFKR 2010). In fact, one of the most up-to-date, comprehensive studies concluded that as of 2001, HBCUs awarded more than one fifth of all undergraduate degrees to African Americans studies (P&S04). HBCUs also reduce the achievement gap among Black and White Americans at the post-graduate level inclusive of critical areas such as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), (B