Black Education
The common name given to colleges created for the education of Black students.
What are Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)?
This women's college became co-ed in 1969.
What is Vassar College?
This act provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in agriculture and the mechanic arts.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862?
During the colonial era, American colleges attempted to replicate the structures of these English schools.
What are Oxford and Cambridge?
Susan B Anthony and this leader founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
These were some of the first organized schools for African Americans in the South.
What are Sabbath Schools?
This 1848 document signed in Seneca Falls, New York was modeled after the Declaration of Independence and made similar calls for liberty by pushing for educational and employment equality between men and women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
In this 1896 case, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was acceptable, as long as equal facilities were provided for both Black and white people.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This group of historians in the 1960s-1970s pointed out that higher education was designed to uphold social order and racist, systemic issues, with their largest contribution being the historical writings that came from the next generation.
Who were the Radical Revisionists?
These monuments became popular after World War I when the public was mourning the deaths of popular collegians in the war and donated large sums to universities.
What are Memorial Stadiums?
This educational philosophy theorized that hard work and social discipline would lead to Black advancement.
What is the Hampton Model?
Preparatory schools for educators, some for women only and others coeducational.
What are Normal Schools?
In this 1954 case, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board?
This collection of 14 elite universities was founded during the 20th century with the intention of standardizing and elevating U.S. higher education institutions.
What is the Assocation of American Universities (AAU)?
This institution was founded in 1769 by Elezear Wheelock who wanted to establish a school "in the heart of Indian country."
What is Dartmouth College?
This American businessman and philanthropist contributed to the construction of ninety-two schools, mostly in Alabama and later incorporated a Fund for “the well-being of mankind.”
Who is Julius Rosenwald?
An activist for both women’s rights and abolition who took a more radical stand.
Who is Lucy Stone?
This program, which was an amendment of the Higher Education Act of 1964, guaranteed financial aid to any student who complied with its terms.
What is the Basic Educational Opportunities Grants (BEOG) or Pell Grants program?
This acronym mentioned in lecture describes four categories of students that are often disproportionately admitted at elite higher education institutions.
What is ALDC (Athletes, Legacies, Dean's List, Children of Faculty/Staff)?
This institution, known for faculty innovations that revolutionized American agriculture, such as a procedure for measuring butterfat content in milk, also inspired the notion that campus and capital ought to cooperate.
What is the University of Wisconsin?
This renowned African-American poet and author participated in an influential debate against another black community leader that called for the more liberal higher education of the “Talented Tenth” over an industrial and agricultural mode of education.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This pioneer of women’s education-rights founded Mount Holyoke College, the first all-female liberal arts college in America, in 1837.
Who is Mary Lyon?
President Biden recently signed an Executive Order directing greater support to these institutions.
What are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)?
This private college located in Ohio, which initially offered students free tuition in exchange for helping to build and sustain the community, was the first to admit women and men of all races in 1837.
What is Oberlin College?
While most American universities had roots in the Oxford, Cambridge or Scottish educational models, this research university in Maryland, which opened in 1876, adopted a German educational model which emphasized concepts such as academic freedom and merging teaching and research.
What is Johns Hopkins University?