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In modern societies the university is the most important channel of mobility & a central institution to ensure equality of opportunity & social justice. Universities assumed an important role in the political & cultural emancipation of women, minorities, & the lower socioeconomic classes. Expansion ...

In modern societies the university is the most important channel of mobility & a central institution to ensure equality of opportunity & social justice. Universities assumed an important role in the political & cultural emancipation of women, minorities, & the lower socioeconomic classes. Expansion & Structural Change explores the historical process of the expansion of universities for a period of more than a hundred years in the United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, & France.

There are currently 109 historically black colleges and universities in the United States. Established before 1964, their mission was and continues to be the education of black Americans for service and leadership in the black community as well as the wider community. Ever since Lincoln University ...

There are currently 109 historically black colleges and universities in the United States. Established before 1964, their mission was and continues to be the education of black Americans for service and leadership in the black community as well as the wider community. Ever since Lincoln University opened its doors in 1854, controversy has raged over separate black institutions of higher learning. Roebuck and Murty review the history of black colleges from the antebellum years (prior to 1865) to the present. They provide profiles of each of the major black universities from their founding until today, including their current student composition and faculty makeup. Reviewing the literature on race relations in college life, the authors describe tensions on white and black campuses as reported in journals and periodicals. They then analyze and interpret the results of their own empirical study of race relations on fifteen campuses in the southeastern United States. This is the first comprehensive coverage of the subject.