Black Colleges and Universities

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In Black Colleges and Universities: Challenges for the Future, Antoine Garibaldi edits a study that explores the current and emerging roles of black colleges--developed from a proactive stance, rather than from the traditional reactive and defensive arguments for the existence of black colleges in America' (p.3). The study is an outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the National Institute of Education (NIE) in June of 1980.... This volume indicates that the fourteen authors have done an exhaustive amount of work on the potential roles black colleges and universities can play in American society today in order to guarantee their future survival in an ever-changing technological society. The various suggestions offered by various authors for the new roles that black colleges should consider reflects the use of a variety of sources. Although these chapters come closer to speculative essays than original research, they are, nevertheless, helpful to any person interested in the future direction(s) that black colleges and universities should consider.... It [should] be read by policy-makers, governmental officials, and others who are concerned about the viability of these institutions of higher learning."-Economics of Education Review