Collection

2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

LeeRoy Bronner; Olusola Laniyi

explores ways of improving the education of African Americans by significantlyincreasing the number of college graduates from Historically Black College and Universities(HBCU) as a way of increasing the number of opportunities available to them. The HBCUs areinstitutions of higher learning, whose principal mission is to educate African Americans, andthese institutions have evolved since their beginning in 1837 when their primary responsibilitywas to educate freed slaves to read and write. At the dawn of the 21st century, along withgraduate and post-graduate degrees, HBCU’s offer African American students a place to beeducated and earn a sense of identity, heritage and community. For decades after theirestablishment, HBCUs were virtually the only