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Understanding Needs And Concerns Of Black Students In Pursuit Of Higher Education, Thomas M. Caulfield
Understanding Needs And Concerns Of Black Students In Pursuit Of Higher Education, Thomas M. Caulfield
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The problem of this study was to increase the general publics' awareness of the difficulties Black Americans faced in pursuit of higher education.
The procedure was a twofold process. First, the writer reviewed some of the pre-college variables that affected the Black student. Second, the needs and concerns of the Black student at a predominantly White University were studied by the use of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to three groups on the Eastern Illinois University Campus. The first group was comprised of twenty-five Black students that were currently enrolled in the University. The second group was twenty Black …