Black Colleges: New Perspectives on Policy and Practice (Educational Policy in the 21st Century)

Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. Notwithstanding, thereis scant treatment of these key institutions in the research literature. There is a need for a comprehensive and cogent understanding of the primary characteristics of the policies and practices endemic to black coleges. This book provides the scholarly basis requisite to organize, givemeaning to, and shape the analyses and applications of policy and paractice within the black college. The collected chapters respond to the paucity of research literature adressing these institutions. In each chapter, the authors acknowledge the specific characteristics of black colleges that make them unique.