Black Issues Forum 2002
Where have all the brotha's gone?
Is the Black man's failure to graduate from higher education institutions an issue?
Faculty/Staff Advisors: William King, Jason Wimbley
Peer Mentors: Charles Johnson, Nichelle Jones-Reynolds, Robert Lewis, Rori Robinson, Vendria Sirlona
Library Staff: Lou Anderson, Sarah Myers, Awilda Reyes
The Scenario
CSU Library Tools
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CSU Libraries Virtual Tour CSU SAGE Library Catalog CSU Databases
Selected Resources - A Place To Begin Your Research
SAGE (online catalog) - Key Word/Subject Headings
- Subject: African American college students
- Subject: African American men -- Education (Higher)
- Subject: African American -- universities and colleges
- Word: African American and higher education
Selected Books
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- Cuyjet, M. J. Helping African American men succeed in college.
* CSU Call Number = LC2781 .H45 1997
- Jones, L. Brothers of the academy: up and coming Black scholars earning our way in higher education.
* CSU Call Number = LC2781.5 .B76 2000 - Hrabowski, Freeman A. Beating the odds: Raising academically successful African-American males.
* CSU Call Number = LC2731 .H73 1998
- Ross, M. J. Success factors of young African-American males at a historically black college.
* CSU Call Number = LC2781 .R66 1998
Databases
These resources include a fair amount of full-text materials.
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- Academic Universe - All full text - Includes full text of today's news and past news.
- Education Index - Leading publications in the education field.
- Electric Library - All full text - Includes transcripts, images, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- ERIC - Contains journal articles and reports on education topics.
- Ethnic NewsWatch - Contains subjects on ethnicity, race, African and African-American studies from English and Spanish newspapers, magazines, journals of ethnic, minority and native American Press.
- Periodical Abstracts - Partial fulltext - includes popular magazines and scholarly articles.
Internet Search Engines
- Google - http://www.google.com
* Search suggestions: "African American men" or "black men" and "higher education" - Northern Light - http://www.nlresearch.com/
* Search suggestions: African Americans higher education; Male African Americans higher education; African Americans education discrimination - Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com
* Search suggestions: "African American men" or "black men" and "higher education"
Web Sites (Selected)
- African American Resources - http://www.ss.uno.edu/SS/homePages/MCProj/AfrAm.html
- Office of Minorities in Higher Education - http://www.acenet.edu/programs/omhe/status-report/index.cfm
- Official Site of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) - http://www.naacp.org/
- Rockford Chapter NAACP Home Page - http://www.ss.uno.edu/SS/homePages/MCProj/AfrAm.html
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education - http://www.jbhe.com/
Internet & Database Articles
- African American education since 'An American Dilemma'
-- Through CSU Databases -- Northern Light - Black Colleges at the Crossroads Despite growing enrollments, the nation's traditionally black schools face financial pressures and life-threatening legal challenges.
-- Through CSU Databases -- Electric Library - Search News - General News - Guided Search - Headline: "Degrees of Separation; Gender Gap Among College Graduates Has Educators Wondering Where the Men Are"
-- Through CSU Databases -- Academic Universe
- Minority Bachelor's Degrees on the Rise: Number of African American Bachelor's Degree Holders Tops 100,000
-- Through CSU Databases -- Northern Light - Search Title field: "The Alarming Decline in the Academic Performance of African-American Men"
-- Through CSU Databases -- ERIC
- The Rise of the Black Middle Class
-- Through CSU Databases -- Electric Library - The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
-- Through CSU Databases -- Northern Light
Organizations
- A.A.A.R.M. (Association of African-American Role Models)
- Black Excel - The College Help Network
- Black Success Foundation -- Links to Other Organizations Promoting African American Success
- NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Statistics
- Frontline - Vital Signs - Statistics that measure the state of racial inequality
- National Center for Education Statistics
- U. S. Census Bureau - The Black Population in the United States
Content: Lou Anderson, Sarah Myers, Awilda Reyes