Race Based Admissions and Affirmative Action: Revisiting Historical Implications on Black Students in Higher Education

“The Hawkins bubble”: How a private, religious college supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other gender and sexual minority students to thrive.

“…Even more sparse is the research surrounding the climate of institutions of higher learning in the geographical regions known as the “Bible Belt” or the South. While there is a dearth of research regarding the college experiences of minority students (Blass & Weston, 2011; Ford et al, 2023; Swail et al, 2003) and marginalized populations (James & Taylor, 2022; McKay-Cody, 2020; Sousa, 2022) in higher education, research about the southern college experience is almost nonexistent. Most of the research pertaining to southern institutions of higher learning concerns the evolution of women in higher learning (Gage, 2022), policing of curriculum (Carter, 2007; Crane, 2005), or the stories of Black men in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (C.…”

Returning home: Reflections on cultural capital cultivated for Black men faculty through multicultural affairs work.

“…Bill (B. Haynes, 2006), and Affirmative Action policies (Ford et al, 2023; Harper et al, 2009). While Black student enrollment at NBSIs soared in the 1970s, the complexities of being Black in this rapidly changing society proved challenging for these students, who were expected to assimilate into the dominant culture without prior knowledge of how these institutions operated or the antiblack racism embedded within the environment, policies, and practices of these institutions as noted in numerous studies (e.g., Dumas, 2016; Gusa, 2010; Mustaffa, 2017).…”