While race should be one of several considerations in the process of college admissions, it should not be the deciding factor in admitting one student over another. ... This hard work is what distinguishes successful students from students that would not succeed in college and would perhaps benefit in the long run from a different form of job training. ... (Source H) Replacing affirmative action boosts with rewards that give hard-working minority students a spot in college can be a good alternative to handouts. ... Admission into college for a student who does not meet the requisite academi...

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Today, the SAT I play's an important role in young high schools student's college careers. ... There are over100-accredited colleges in the state of Virginia that all require the students to take the SAT as a part of the admission process. Throughout these hundreds of colleges, students have to score within a certain range (preferably in the 500 range in both verbal and math) to even be considered for admission. ... For this reason, students may find it harder to get accepted at these accredited Colleges and Universities in Virginia. ... However, too often a student's performa...

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Under this policy, colleges have been encouraged to take race and ethnicity into account for their admissions process. ... In addition, affirmative action helps colleges obtain a diverse student body, which supposedly has many educational benefits. ... Supporters of affirmative action use in college admissions will often stress the benefits of diversity among students in a campus. ... "Undoubtedly[,] there are other ways to better the education of law students aside from ensuring that the student body contains a critical mass of underrepresented minority students. ... Although a diverse stude...

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When Hartke resigned his commission in 1975 he became the physics professor at Tarkington College. ... During his teaching there, one of the students was Kimberly Wilder who had a learning disability. Kimberly was the daughter of Jason Wilder who was the College President. ... Wilder expressed that rather than teaching students about ignorance, he should be teaching students about the greatness of things. ... Tarkington College is holding back their students from knowing the truths of the world around them. ...

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Pre-college Education The inequality in the college preparation of black Americans can potentially serve to restrict their access to college by limiting pre-college academic programs and resources. These school resources and programs are unreasonably distributed based on the wealth of the school district rather than the need of our nations students. ... Diseducation 5 Pre-college education for the black male, for the most part, is set up for him to fail. ... In some cases, the preparation is so awful that college does not even become a factor in the life of some black men. ... This is ...

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I am the only colored student in my class. ... Analysis At first glance, Hughes" "Theme for English B" seems to be simply the reflections of a young college student on his relationship to his school, home, and surrounding society. ... The image invoked in this stanza is an obvious enough symbol of the position that the white college students feel they have over the surrounding community. ... This effect, in turn, elevates the position of the Harlem inhabitants to a higher plane than that of the college students. The vitality of the Harlemites is illustrated through the vitality of the poet, ...

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I am the only colored student in my class. ... Analysis At first glance, Hughes" "Theme for English B" seems to be simply the reflections of a young college student on his relationship to his school, home, and surrounding society. ... The image invoked in this stanza is an obvious enough symbol of the position that the white college students feel they have over the surrounding community. ... This effect, in turn, elevates the position of the Harlem inhabitants to a higher plane than that of the college students. The vitality of the Harlemites is illustrated through the vitality of the poet, ...

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On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College in Greensboro went to a Woolworth's lunch counter and sat down politely and asked for service. The waitress refused to serve them and the students remained sitting there until the store closed for the night. The very next day they returned, this time with some more black students and even a few white ones. ... A columnist for the segregation minded Richmond News Leader wrote, "Here were the colored students in coats, white shirts, and ties and one of them was reading Goethe and one was taking...

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When the school opened, it only had five African American girls as students and it was until later that the school would accept boys. ... The focus that Mary had on educating her students were on training the girls in the proper way to care for their homes. ... Over several years, the small house that had begun as a school, soon became a thirty-two-acre campus with 400 students and fourteen buildings for students to learn in. In 1923, Bethune decided to emerge with another college, so "the school became coeducational when it merged with Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida, and beca...

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Edwin Bancroft Henderson, known as the grandfather of basketball, introduced the sport to his students in 1904. ... College basketball teams in the 1930s dominated the scene. ... In the spring of 1930, Lucille Townsend graduated from High School; from there she attended Bennett College. ... At most white colleges, the idea of varsity basketball clashed with the visions of ladylike gentility that they wished their students to embody, and competition was thus limited to intramurals, the faculty at many African American colleges held to a more expansive conceptualization of womanhood, one that co...

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A major part of every college campus is the Greek system. ... It amazes me that discrimination and racism carries on today, especially among such younger generations such as college students. ... Although it was the first time a sorority had been accused of racial discrimination, one student made the comment thatAlpha Gamma Delta probably aren't the only ones who do it? ... According to Richard Mullendore, vice president of student affairs, few African American students choose to participate in membership recruitment, or rush, which shepherds participants from one predominantly white soro...

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The dorms of the school, "Eckstein Norton Hall housed about 180 male students, and Belknap Hall housed 172 female students" (18). ... One of the photos depicts male and female students alike in a chemistry lab class and states that, "many of these students went on to become doctors, dentists, and science teachers" (27). ... The school didn't just teach, it offered a variety of clubs and sports to allow the students to express their creative and athletic outlets. ... Elsewhere in the state as time went on schools began to allow African Americans into their school syste...

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He was good enough that he earned a college scholarship to play baseball at Pasadena Junior College. ... After finishing his junior college career, Robinson was offered a scholarship to play for the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). ... "According to the Black Coaches Association (BCA), ethnic minorities represent only 2.7% (15 of 547) of head coaches at all National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) institutions (not including those coaching at historically black colleges and universities), while ethnic minorities make up more than 50% of the student-athletes playing coll...

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DuBois was the only black student in a class of 12 to attend school and was very popular with his white classmates. ... Painter, encouraged him to attend college. However, DuBois was orphaned and forced to fund his own college education (Hynes). ... Fisk University was a small, black, liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. ... DuBois received scholarships to pay for tuition at Harvard and as a student he was focused on philosophy. ...

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I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem," (3). ... Finally finding himself, "here," at a college located on a hill above harlem. This hill above harlem symbolizes a higher class and higher living that the character had finally reached with the white men but still being the only black student in his classes, feels lost and out of place although having earned where he is, his journey there also separates him having had gone through a tougher path then what is created for a white student as shown through the black/white ratio. ... But...

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Though the school was predominately white-Hughes was one of the only ten black students in his class-racial problems were rare. ... He was a member of the students council and the French club, served as editor of the yearbook, and ran on the school's championship track team. ... Langston wanted to go to college, and he needed financial help to do so. ... Langston returned to college, this time at Lincoln University, an all-male, black institution located in the wooded countryside south of Philadelphia. ...

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Modern Day Challenges Dropout rates for Native American students are double that of the non-Hispanic white majority. ... While this percentage may seem high compared to many reports, this statistic includes students who may have graduated late or went on to get a GED. ...

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This act forced President Dwight Eisenhower to call for federal troops to protect the black students who were admitted into the school. ... This organisation expanded and reached African Americans in college. Four students from an all-black college began performing 'sit-ins'. ... Several other students from all over used this example and started their own sit-ins. ... The practice of sit-in's formed the student nonviolent coordinating power which helped administer a need for civil rights legislations by President John Kennedy(Alfridge,2014). ...

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Accounts tell of a successful brother who insisted she got to college. He supported her at Oberlin College in Ohio, a major abolitionist center at the time. Lewis changed her name to Mary Edmonia while studying at Oberlin College. ... Rebecca Cole received her medical degree from Woman's Medical College in 1867. ... She was asked to join Sigma Xi, an unusual honor for a master's student. ...

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A story illustrating covert racism might sound like this; when a Teacher says to an African American student that she is shocked how articulate the African American student is. ... In schools, Caucasians are favored more than Hispanic and African American students because of their skin color. ... The counselor gives the impression that only the Caucasian students exist amongst the other students. This concludes that schools discriminating against certain students because of their race or ethnicity. ... Some believe that racism has deteriorated in the past years because African Americans have c...

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He was a good scholar, studying at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania and Boston University. ... SCLC began to teach students about the passive resistance technique in hope that they would use it. The students formed their own association, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. ... At one sit-in, King was arrested with all the students but was denied bail. ... He attended Mason Junior High, where he was the only black student. ...

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His mother was an intelligent woman who taught school after completing studies at Atlanta's Spelman College. ... Martin received an admission notice to Morehouse College in Atlanta upon finishing eleventh grade. ... At prestigious, all-male Morehouse, nicknamed the "Negro Harvard," students stayed up late discussing the pressing issues of the day. ...

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If one would visit virtually any American college with black student there is sure to have a gospel choir, or group there. The first college-based choir was started on the campus of Howard University in 1965. ...

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Before affirmative action was created, a large majority of students in college were Caucasian and most employees of large corporations were Caucasians (Plous). But ever since affirmative action has come into the picture, the rate of minorities in college and in the business world has risen dramatically (Affirmative). ...

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In show of his opposition, in 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus defied a federal court order, and with the aid of national guardsmen, attempted to prevent the admittance of nine black students to Little Rock's Central High school. ... On February 1, 1960, four black college students from North Carolina A&T University began protesting racial segregation in restaurants by sitting at "white only" lunch counters and waiting to be served. ... From the Sit-ins sprang the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), founded in April 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina by Ella Baker. ...

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