Historically black colleges and universities

various theories in Black or Africana Studies. An Africana study is a “critical and systematic” study of the African people. Under this consists of theories that are an explanation of facts that are acknowledged. Kawaida Philosophy is one of the main theories and it is also used as in a theoretical way and how it implies in the Africana Studies. Kawaida is a philosophy first developed by Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University, which focuses on…

Young Gifted and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African American Students, a compilation of three essays, presents a compelling argument on the experience and achievement of African American students in schools. Leading African American theorists, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard 3rd each contribute a moving essay to the book. The authors investigate how African American students experience school in a society that has historically devalued their intellectual abilities.…

School, a prestigious, historically white private school located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (alumni include…

affect my socializing. All of my friends in High School were White after I returned. They were the only ones that I could get along with socially, but they noticed that I did not behave like other Black people. One of my friends, Derek, told me that he liked hanging around me because I was the only Black person that he could be friends with at the time. He said it was because I behaved like them, White people! I felt confused. I did not know whether to take that as an insult or a compliment. I…

manifesto where they proposed a system to encourage participation called The Port Huron Statement, or PHS The Port Huron Statement was written by Tom Hayden and 58 other college students in the SDS, on June 15, 1962. The main purpose of the PHS was to express the dissatisfaction many college students in the 1960’s felt towards college administrators in regards to them telling them how to live their personal lives, to voice their opinions on how the current state of America…

He lightly promised me that if I got my grades up he would help me get scholarships to go to college. That year I started the dual credit program at my high school taking college AP courses at York Technical College, and University of South Carolina, that year I earned a 4.0 and improved my GPA. That summer I was accepted into a national science foundation program at Bennett College and I earned a 4.0 there as well. These experiences gave me hope and made me realize that maybe the hope…

of this plan. By design it is purposefully general, higher education is changing rapidly and it requires an agile, flexible planning system that can also change. Even Wagener and Smith (1993) in an article discussing strategic planning among Historically Black…

Historically, The American Dream was rooted in The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson in 1776; however, The American Dream was popularized by James Truslow Adams in 1931. Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father, stated “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Jefferson), but James Adams, an American writer and historian, had an idea that “Life should be…

pulling for the underdog or cheering with the minority in hopes to see the majority fall in embarrassment. Historically speaking an independent woman was frowned upon and in some cases, they still are and a black African American was not even considered to be politically capable of running a country until 2008 when Barak Obama became president of the United States. Men and woman, both black and white throughout history have been underestimated and thrown to the side with the minority who…

action is being implemented in the most prestigious of America’s universities. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, affirmative action allocates increased opportunities for historically excluded groups within the application process. In addition, more financial aid and scholarships are being awarded to underprivileged families. All of these actions allow for increasingly diverse communities in colleges and universities. As a result, higher levels of education will help…