Relationship Between Exchange Colleges And Pwis
Angelo John Lewis
27 Buttonwood Street
Lambertville, NJ 08530
(609) 397-9777
EXCHANGE PROGRAMS BETWEEN HBCUs AND PWIs: An Emphasis on Partnership, but Some Problems Remain
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Angelo John Lewis
During the 1960s, according to Tougaloo College lore, President John F. Kennedy called for the nation's predominately white colleges to cooperate in bolstering the status of historically black colleges and universities. The president's words prompted a faculty and student exchange program between Brown University and Tougaloo which continues to this day. That relationship, says Tougaloo Vice President for Academic Affairs Bettye Parker Smith, is the oldest of its kind in the country. Since that time, the existence of exchange programs …show more content…
According to the United Negro College President Bill Gray, HBCU students get the same kind of benefits from these programs as students in general get from studying overseas. "For the same reasons as Harvard has exchange programs with the Sorbonne, these programs widen student horizons. They sometimes even have the effect of attracting students into a more global field, rather than a narrow specialty." For their part, HBCU faculty use the exchanges to gain new insights into learn teaching methodologies. They also sometimes gain new impetus for engaging in research projects they might have put on the back-burner because of their exclusive preoccupation with teaching at their home institution. According to Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, Director of the Faculty Resource Network, many HBCUs got involved in the program initially because it provided an incentive for some "ABD" -- anything but doctorate -- HBCU faculty to complete their Ph.D.s or to participate in collaborative research. Predominately white institutions, on the other hand, look to HBCUs as sources of strategies to diversity curriculum and as a means of encouraging minority students -- still, despite recent gains, underrepresented in graduate schools -- to seek careers in higher …show more content…
"What that does is spin off all kinds of things. It can also be helpful to have a University of Wisconsin professor see how a professor from a small liberal arts predominately black institution teaches 'Introduction to Chemistry.' Two years down the road he might from that experience learn new ways to connect with black students." African American administrators at predominately white institutions say that partnerships are as important for their institutions as they are for HBCUs. Princeton's Ruth Simmons, who was instrumental in cementing Spelman's relationship with Princeton, says its important for wealthy research institutions like Princeton to encourage African-American students to pursue graduate
27 Buttonwood Street
Lambertville, NJ 08530
(609) 397-9777
EXCHANGE PROGRAMS BETWEEN HBCUs AND PWIs: An Emphasis on Partnership, but Some Problems Remain
by
Angelo John Lewis
During the 1960s, according to Tougaloo College lore, President John F. Kennedy called for the nation's predominately white colleges to cooperate in bolstering the status of historically black colleges and universities. The president's words prompted a faculty and student exchange program between Brown University and Tougaloo which continues to this day. That relationship, says Tougaloo Vice President for Academic Affairs Bettye Parker Smith, is the oldest of its kind in the country. Since that time, the existence of exchange programs …show more content…
According to the United Negro College President Bill Gray, HBCU students get the same kind of benefits from these programs as students in general get from studying overseas. "For the same reasons as Harvard has exchange programs with the Sorbonne, these programs widen student horizons. They sometimes even have the effect of attracting students into a more global field, rather than a narrow specialty." For their part, HBCU faculty use the exchanges to gain new insights into learn teaching methodologies. They also sometimes gain new impetus for engaging in research projects they might have put on the back-burner because of their exclusive preoccupation with teaching at their home institution. According to Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, Director of the Faculty Resource Network, many HBCUs got involved in the program initially because it provided an incentive for some "ABD" -- anything but doctorate -- HBCU faculty to complete their Ph.D.s or to participate in collaborative research. Predominately white institutions, on the other hand, look to HBCUs as sources of strategies to diversity curriculum and as a means of encouraging minority students -- still, despite recent gains, underrepresented in graduate schools -- to seek careers in higher …show more content…
"What that does is spin off all kinds of things. It can also be helpful to have a University of Wisconsin professor see how a professor from a small liberal arts predominately black institution teaches 'Introduction to Chemistry.' Two years down the road he might from that experience learn new ways to connect with black students." African American administrators at predominately white institutions say that partnerships are as important for their institutions as they are for HBCUs. Princeton's Ruth Simmons, who was instrumental in cementing Spelman's relationship with Princeton, says its important for wealthy research institutions like Princeton to encourage African-American students to pursue graduate