Recently added articles from The Journal of Negro Education:
Editor's Comment
Jul 01, 2008; ... Conventional predictors of college success, such as the SAT, indicated that I had only a slim chance of completing a degree at my home state's flagship university. Notwithstanding, I had the audacity to apply for a scholarship program - a learning community of sorts. The year was 1991 and I ...
Introduction and Overview
Jul 01, 2008; ... Much discussion is occurring within the United States on the topic of competitiveness. In simple terms, the discussion goes something like this: If the United States is to maintain its competitive edge in the world in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), ...
The Effect of Learning Communities on Achievement in STEM Fields for African Americans Across Four Campuses
Jul 01, 2008; ... Four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Howard University, Jackson State University, Talladega College, and Xavier University of Louisiana, participated in a project titled, Learning Communities for STEM Academic Achievement (LCSAA), whose goal was to increase the ...
Evaluating the Impact of a Faculty Learning Community on STEM Teaching and Learning
Jul 01, 2008; ... The faculty learning community project at Howard University involved a diverse group of men and women, tenured, tenure-track, and future faculty across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The purpose of the group was to engage in the scholarship of teaching and ...
Do Learning Communities Enhance The Quality of Students' Learning and Motivation in STEM?
Jul 01, 2008; ... The role of motivation and collaboration in STEM learning and performance is paramount. A learning community represents an educational approach that can engage students in learning in a motivated, thoughtful, active, and collaborative wav. The focus of this article is on the nature of students' ...
A Model for Establishing Learning Communities at a HBCU in Graduate Classes
Jul 01, 2008; ... Because of the positive effects of learning communities with undergraduates, these researchers proposed the Collaborative Learning Initiatives that Motivate Bi-cultural experiences model (CLIMB) to implement learning communities within graduate counseling and educational administration courses ....
The Impact of the Freshman Academy/Learning Communities on Student Progression and Engagement
Jul 01, 2008; ... Learning communities continue to be at the heart of teaching and learning today. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent of the impact of the Freshman Academy/Learning Community program on student progress at a historically Black university. The authors also looked at the extent to ...
The Impact of a "Healthy Youth" Learning Community on Student Learning Outcome Measures
Jul 01, 2008; ... Learning communities are becoming increasingly popular in the quest for enhancing student learning. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the "Healthy Youth " Learning Community on student learning outcome measures. In this study, the authors compared student learning outcome ...
Instructional Strategies and Learning Preferences at a Historically Black University
Jul 01, 2008; ... Through the Minority Biomedical Research Support-Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement program, the natural sciences faculty at Johnson C. Smith University, a historically Black university, works to support their students' learning. The heterogeneity of learning preferences among ...
Powerful Pedagogy: Learning Communities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Jul 01, 2008; ... A recent deluge of national studies and reports warns the United States that our future hangs in the balance because our educational system is failing our society. These studies cite projections that American competitiveness is at risk because we have failed to address a growing demographic ...
The Sista' Network: African-American Women Successfully Negotiating the Road to Tenure
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Sista' Network: African-American Women Successfully Negotiating the Road to Tenure, by Tuesday L. Cooper. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, 2006, 147 pp. $25.00, paperback. The purpose of mis book is to expose the unspoken "rules of t-he game" that African American women have encountered ...