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- Title
A POSSIBLE NEED FOR STRUCTURE.
- Authors
Foy Sr., Kenneth
- Abstract
During President Obama's tenure in office, he placed considerable emphasis on college graduation and the gap between black and white students. For him, the completion rate of African Americans was critical to the overall national college success rate. With the newly incoming Secretary of Education under President Trump, considerable thought should be given to educational policies and programs that might improve college graduation rates. Within Trump's administration, policy makers should develop programs that examine how they might improve completion rates. This article reports the findings of a study that points to the direction of future educational programs that could be designed for improving graduations rates within the African American community. This article will primarily focus on first Year College students' success rates among African American males and it further explores possible causes of the low completion rates within a Historically Black College and University setting. A comparative study of two Introductory Psychology classes are presented. Within the study, a few possible causes for the low rates of African American males' success rates in college are uncovered. In this comparative study, a lack of structure and discipline seems to emerge as a crucial consideration to success. The study strongly suggests the need to further explore structure and discipline in educational programs as key factors that significantly infringe on the success of African American males in higher education. Also, the article presents further implications to be considered for more in-depth research in this area leading to innovative programs.
- Subjects
OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; AFRICAN Americans; STATISTICS on academic achievement; EDUCATION policy; HISTORICALLY Black colleges &; universities
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2/3, p75
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article