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African Americans And The Struggle For Opportunity In Florida Public Higher Education, 1947–1977, Larry Johnson, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Barbara Shircliffe
African Americans And The Struggle For Opportunity In Florida Public Higher Education, 1947–1977, Larry Johnson, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Barbara Shircliffe
Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications
In the decades following World War II, access to higher education became an important vehicle for expanding opportunity in the United States. The African American–led Civil Rights Movement challenged discrimination in higher education at a time when state and federal government leaders saw strengthening public higher education as necessary for future economic growth and development. Nationally, the 1947 President’s Commission on Higher Education report Higher Education for American Democracy advocated dismantling racial, geographic, and economic barriers to college by radically expanding public higher education, to be accomplished in large part through the development of community colleges. Although these goals ere …
When The Dialogue Becomes Too Difficult: A Case Study Of Resistance And Backlash, Wilma J. Henry, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Sherman Dorn, Herbert A. Exum, Harold Keller, Barbara Shircliffe
When The Dialogue Becomes Too Difficult: A Case Study Of Resistance And Backlash, Wilma J. Henry, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Sherman Dorn, Herbert A. Exum, Harold Keller, Barbara Shircliffe
Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications
This case study explains varied perspectives on a difficult dialogue. It provides recommendations for student affairs professionals and faculty members who work with students and teach courses in content areas that are related to diversity, social justice, and privilege.