African American Education Research Paper
Introduction
Studies show that minorities, especially African Americans, are largely under-represented in post-secondary education. The majority of African American society has not taken full advantage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities that were built on the emphasis of black improvement. The basis for this might be personal, financial, or even geographical reasons. It might even simply be that all other races had a 400 year head start while we were busy being people’s personal property and kept in ignorance for fear of uprisings and other racial worries of no longer considered being superior above our race.
Whatever the case might be, we as African Americans are struggling to climb the “corporate ladder”, simply because …show more content…
Slaves risked their lives daily just to sneak newspapers and learn from their young masters who loved to play “school”. As the years went on and society changed, it became okay for African Americans to learn, just not in the same environment as “whites”. We were given torn down shacks for schools, hand-me-down books, for literature, and less educated teachers than the white schools. We had no money and no comforts of the white schooling and yet we were more dedicated to earn what they had taken away from us for so long. We built institutions of higher learning with our blood, sweat and tears so that we, as a race, could be considered, in some form or fashion, equal. Now that we have everything at our expense (not to say we still aren’t struggling), we are dismissing our education like it wasn’t ought for by our ancestors. It defeats the purpose, …show more content…
type of institution Number of students enrolled Percent by type of institution Percent of total enrollment Less than 10.0 10.0–
19.9 20.0–
29.9 30.0–
39.9 40.0–
49.9 50.0–
59.9 60.0–
69.9 70.0–
79.9 80.0–
89.9 90.0 or more
Black 1,978,746 100.0 11.9 24.5 24.1 15.2 9.8 5.6 3.1 1.8 3.3 5.8 6.7 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)4 244,442 12.4 82.6 0.1 1.3 0 0.4 # 0.2 1.7 10.6 34.1 51.5 Non-HBCU 1,734,304 87.6 10.6 28.0 27.4 17.4 11.1 6.4 3.5 1.8 2.3 1.8 0.4
Number and percentage of students enrolled in degree-granting institutions and, for each racial/ethnic group, the percentage distribution of students by their racial/ethnic enrollment concentration at the institution attended, by student race/ethnicity and type of institution: Fall 2002
Racial/ethnic percentage of total enrollment at degree-granting institution2
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Student race/ ethnicity1 and type of institution Number of students enrolled Percent of total enrollment Less than 10.0 10.0–
19.9 20.0–
29.9 30.0–
39.9 40.0–
49.9 50.0–
59.9 60.0–
69.9 70.0–
79.9 80.0–
89.9 90.0 or more
________________________________________
Black 1,978,746 11.9 24.5 24.1 15.2 9.8 5.6 3.1 1.8 3.3 5.8
Studies show that minorities, especially African Americans, are largely under-represented in post-secondary education. The majority of African American society has not taken full advantage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities that were built on the emphasis of black improvement. The basis for this might be personal, financial, or even geographical reasons. It might even simply be that all other races had a 400 year head start while we were busy being people’s personal property and kept in ignorance for fear of uprisings and other racial worries of no longer considered being superior above our race.
Whatever the case might be, we as African Americans are struggling to climb the “corporate ladder”, simply because …show more content…
Slaves risked their lives daily just to sneak newspapers and learn from their young masters who loved to play “school”. As the years went on and society changed, it became okay for African Americans to learn, just not in the same environment as “whites”. We were given torn down shacks for schools, hand-me-down books, for literature, and less educated teachers than the white schools. We had no money and no comforts of the white schooling and yet we were more dedicated to earn what they had taken away from us for so long. We built institutions of higher learning with our blood, sweat and tears so that we, as a race, could be considered, in some form or fashion, equal. Now that we have everything at our expense (not to say we still aren’t struggling), we are dismissing our education like it wasn’t ought for by our ancestors. It defeats the purpose, …show more content…
type of institution Number of students enrolled Percent by type of institution Percent of total enrollment Less than 10.0 10.0–
19.9 20.0–
29.9 30.0–
39.9 40.0–
49.9 50.0–
59.9 60.0–
69.9 70.0–
79.9 80.0–
89.9 90.0 or more
Black 1,978,746 100.0 11.9 24.5 24.1 15.2 9.8 5.6 3.1 1.8 3.3 5.8 6.7 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)4 244,442 12.4 82.6 0.1 1.3 0 0.4 # 0.2 1.7 10.6 34.1 51.5 Non-HBCU 1,734,304 87.6 10.6 28.0 27.4 17.4 11.1 6.4 3.5 1.8 2.3 1.8 0.4
Number and percentage of students enrolled in degree-granting institutions and, for each racial/ethnic group, the percentage distribution of students by their racial/ethnic enrollment concentration at the institution attended, by student race/ethnicity and type of institution: Fall 2002
Racial/ethnic percentage of total enrollment at degree-granting institution2
________________________________________
Student race/ ethnicity1 and type of institution Number of students enrolled Percent of total enrollment Less than 10.0 10.0–
19.9 20.0–
29.9 30.0–
39.9 40.0–
49.9 50.0–
59.9 60.0–
69.9 70.0–
79.9 80.0–
89.9 90.0 or more
________________________________________
Black 1,978,746 11.9 24.5 24.1 15.2 9.8 5.6 3.1 1.8 3.3 5.8