ZENOBIA ADVISING STUDENTS IN CLASSICS

• African American Colleges
• American Classical League: Task Force on Encouraging Minority Enrollment and Diversity in Classics
  • Site includes 1997 Newsletter with information on the concerns of the ACL and useful bibliographical references for both primary and secondary readings
  • the sources found at this link are also duplicated and found at the various pages of Zenobia regarding regions, teaching, and theory of diversification in education see Zenobia Bibliographies for choices.
• Nancy C. Curtis, "Classics and our African-American Students," American Classical League Newsletter Spring (1998): 6-9.
• "Changing Aspirations"(a study on the changing aspirations of female and minority students) M. Sullivan, from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities Partnerships
• Minority Institution Information: includes search by discipline; to date you cannot find anything under Classics, Latin, Greek, not even Howard, but the list is based on the information schools send them. If a school fails to send along information, then MII obviously cannot include it.
• Quality Education for Minorities
• ETS Net colleges and universities
• ETS report: "Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Their Aspirations and Accomplishments"
• List of Historically Black Colleges and Universities offering Humanities majors
• ACL 1998 Summer Institute Diversity Task Force Panel: the following information accompanied the panel.
  • "Attracting and Retaining African-American Students in Classics from Secondary School to College and Beyond".

    Shelley Haley, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

    Jeff Greenberger, Riverhead High School, Riverhead, NY

    Mark Hines, St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago, IL

    Organizer: Judith de Luce, Miami University, Oxford, OH email: delucej@muohio.edu

• ERIC DATA ON Minority education: To conduct searches try either of these URLs:

  • http://ericir.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+ericdb

    OR

    http://ericir.syr.edu/Search/

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    To search for information on Latin language instruction, try:

    http://ericir.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+ericir+ericir+8094+0+wAAA+foreign%26and%26language%26and%26latin

• The Chronicle of Higher Education and From The Chronicle: Facts and Figures: Enrollment by Race
• References for Education and Minorities:
  • African American Education DataBook Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the College Fund/UNCF 1997 (see specially volume I, the "Executive Summary", and III "The Transition from School to College and School to Work"
  • America's Black Colleges J. W. Bowman Sandcastle Publishing, 1992
  • Black American Colleges and Universities: Profiles of Two-Year, Four-Year and Professional Schools L. Hill Gale Research 1994
  • The Black College Guide K. Johnson Middle Passage Press 1997
  • The Black Student's Guide to Colleges B. Beckham ed. Madison Books 1997
  • Focus on Minorities: Trends in Higher Education Participation and Success J. Mingle Report Prepared by the Education Commission of the States and the State Higher Education Executive Officers 1987
  • The Guide to America's Black Colleges and Universities M. Kilgore TIA Co. 1994
  • The Handbook of Historically Black Colleges and Universities 1995-97 T. H. Kennard Jireh and Assoc. 1995
  • Minorities in Graduate Education: Pipelines, Policy, and Practice, ed. J. Jones. N. Goertz, C. Kuh Educational Testing Service, 1992
  • Minorities in Higher Education 1996-97 D. Carter and R. Wilson American Council on Education
• More General References which include directories of institutions
• Web sites on Historically Black Colleges and Universities:
  • MOLIS list of HCBUs by state
  • HUD Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • HBCU Homepage
  • Howard University
    • Classics Department link has not worked for weeks; this is the College of Arts and Sciences Homepage. Howard does include a good link to HCBUs.
• Especially helpful for students and their advisors:
  • Watts Labor Community Action Committee
  • Mr. Mac's College Links
  • Black Excel: The College Help Network
  • Quick Reference Guide
  • Urban Education Web
• For some perspective (Judith de Luce):
  • The Summer Institute included many sessions on using technology in the classroom. Classics is well-endowed with resources available on-line; indeed, the majority of the sources cited above are on-line. The following statistics about access to these resources, while not the most current, cannot be ignored:
  • "Government studies show that 15 per cent of black families have access to computers at home, compared with 36 per cent of white families. Only 39 per cent of black students in public schools have access to computers at school, compared with 56 per cent of white students. " The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 20, 1996 , A19