College in Black and White

Walter R. Allen is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. Edgar G. Epps is Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Chicago. Nesha Z. Haniff is Assistant Professor in the Center for Afro-American and African Studies and Lecturer in the Women's Studies Program at the University of Michigan.

"The National Study of Black College Students (NSBCS) is the most comprehensive data base on Black college students that has been collected. This book presents in one volume several major studies using this rich data base and ties them together with a theoretical and methodological overview. Its strength lies in its comprehensiveness, its impressive richness of data, and its keen insights into the differences between Black students' experiences and those of their non-Black peers on college campuses."—Reginald Wilson, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, American Council on Education, Washington, DC"This impressive book successfully brings together sound, empirical research to test a number of assumptions about the experiences of Black students in higher education. Each chapter is methodologically sophisticated and moves beyond descriptive statistics to intensive statistical analyses of a plethora of data." — James E. Blackwell, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• ForewordEdgar G. Epps Acknowledgments IntroductionWalter R. AllenPART I: ORIENTING PERSPECTIVES TO THE STUDY OF BLACK STUDENTS IN U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION 1. Winners and Losers: A Regional Assessment of Minority Enrollment and Earned Degrees in U.S. Colleges and Universities, 1974-84Donald R. Deskins Jr. 2. Focus on Equity: Race and Gender Differences in Degree Attainment, 1975-76; 1980-81William T. Trent 3. Assessing the College Major Selection Process for Black StudentsGail E. Thomas 4. Racial Similarities and Differences in the Predictors of College Student AchievementMichael T. NettlesPART II: THE UNDERGRADUATE YEARS: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH FINDINGS 5. Race, Gender, and Academic Performance in U.S. Higher EducationWalter R. Allen and Nesha Z. Haniff 6. Personal Traits, Institutional Prestige, Racial Attitudes, and Black Student Academic Performance in CollegeA. Wade Smith 7. Institutional and Individual Factors Affecting Black Undergraduate Student Performance: Campus Race and Student GenderKenneth W. Jackson and L. Alex Swan 8. Social Support Networks and Undergraduate Student Academic-Success-Related Outcomes: A Comparison of Black Students on Black and White CampusesRobert Bob DavisPART III: THE GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL YEARS: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH FINDINGS 9. Correlates of Academic Performance among Black Graduate and Professional StudentsJomills Henry Braddock II and William T. Trent 10. The Demographic Fallacy of the Black Academic: Does Quality Rise to the Top?Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Melvin L. Oliver 11. Determinants of Success for Black Males and Females in Graduate and Professional SchoolsWestina Matthews and Kenneth W. Jackson PART IV: PRACTICAL ISSUES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF BLACK AMERICANS 12. Toward Effective Desegregated SchoolsBruce R. Hare 13. Intervention Can Make a Difference: The Impact on Standardized Tests and Classroom PerformanceHenry T. Frierson 14. Tackling the Fear of Science: The Impact of a Computer-Based Study Center on Minority Student Achievement in BiologyLewis J. Kleinsmith and Jerome Johnston 15. EpilogueNesha Z. Haniff PART V: APPENDICES A. Black College Students in U.S. Higher Education: A Selected BibliographyJo Anne Hall, Cheryl Presley, and Ruby Gooley B. Data Sources and DescriptionWalter R. Allen Notes and References Contributors Index