Fueling Education Reform: Historically Black Colleges Are Meeting a National Science Imperative

Science at Liberal Arts Colleges : A Better Education ?

IT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1970. Carol and I had spent four years at Grinnell College, located in the somnolent farming community of Grinnell, Iowa. Now, newly married, we drove westward, where we would enter the graduate program in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. How would our liberal arts education serve us in the Ph.D. program of one of the world’s great research universities?...

A Return on Investment Analysis for Black Graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Insights from Three Studies

Comparing Libraries of Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Their White Counterparts

As one element in the effort to desegregate public institutions of higher education, federal courts have mandated the upgrading of libraries at public historically Black colleges and universities. This preliminary study compares the libraries of public HBCUs with those of traditionally White public colleges across eighteen states, mostly in the Southeast. By analyzing number of volumes, staff, ...

A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, Report by The National Commission on Excellence in Education

Fueling educational reform: the HHMI professors.

Is fundamental change possible in the tradition-bound world of college and university science education? The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) believes it is and recently announced new grants to empower individual scientisteducators—the HHMI Professors—to develop innovative approaches for changing the way they teach biology to undergraduates. Central to the Professors program is the goal o...