Diversifying Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A New Higher Education Paradigm [Hardcover]

If Black colleges and universities wish to survive in the competitive and economically stressed education environment of the 21st century, they would do well to respond to some of the pressures for reform that the general school structures are undergoing, in particular population diversification. Sims provides a model for diversification that presents four major steps in orderly progression: the removal of barriers for admission of nonblack students; the development of special programs of interest to the general student population; and the diversification of faculty and administration. Ways of restructuring historically Black colleges and universities to be more supportive of diverse student populations are also developed in this work.SERBRENIA J. SIMS is an independent researcher and author./e She and her husband Ronald have coauthored numerous works on multiculturalism and higher education, includingManaging Higher Education in the 21st Century(Greenwood, 1991).

Preface
Diversity and the HBCU: Definitions, History and Issues
Implementing Reform Efforts
Changing the Academic Subcultures via the Formal Curriculum
Recruiting Admitting and Retaining the White Minority
Cooperative Arrangements: Taking the Lead in Social Change
Making the Campus Friendly to Other Race Students: Modifying the Extracurriculum
HBCU Diversity Transition Model: Building Bridges Between Cultures
The Role of HBCU's Faculty in Teaching Diversity
Diversity: How to Institutionalize and Solidify a New Status