Koch / Swinton Vital and Valuable

The Relevance of HBCUs to American Life and Education
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55772-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are a crucial element of higher education in the United States. In Vital and Valuable, two distinguished economists provide a groundbreaking empirical analysis of HBCUs and offer actionable policy recommendations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koch, James V.

Swinton, Omari H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Removing the Veil
2. A Précis of the Case for HBCUs
3. Declining HBCU Enrollments—a Mystery or Not?
4. The Sample and the Data
5. Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation
6. A Deeper Dive into HBCU Dynamics
7. A Roadmap for the Future
Appendix A. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Sample
Appendix B. Observations on Panel Least Squares, Random Effects, and Fixed Effects
Appendix C. Data tables
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James V. Koch is Board of Visitors Professor of Economics Emeritus and president emeritus at Old Dominion University. His recent books include Runaway College Costs: How College Governing Boards Fail to Protect Their Students (2020) and The Impoverishment of the American College Student (2019).

Omari H. Swinton is chair, director of graduate studies, and professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University. He is a past president of the National Economics Association.