Exploring Challenges That Threaten to Impede the Academic Success of Academically Underprepared Black Males at an HBCU

Palmer, Robert T.; Davis, Ryan J.; Hilton, Adriel A.

doi:10.1353/csd.0.0078

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“…Even if HBCUs are found thoroughly heterogeneous, is figure 1 as a stand-alone model equally effective for both groups? Studies have demonstrated the different experiences and levels of success that tend to differentiate women and men (Gasman 2007b;Harper and Kuykundall 2012;Kimbrough and Harper 2006;Lundy-Wagner and Gasman 2011;Palmer et al 2009;Strayhorn et al 2012). Thus, gendered frameworks may be necessary to capitalize on their differences to create even more beneficial educational approaches.…”

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An HBCU-Based Educational Approach for Black College Student Success: Toward a Framework with Implications for All Institutions

Arroyo

Gasman

2014

American Journal of Education

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This conceptual study builds an institution-focused, non-Eurocentric, theoretical framework of black college student success. Specifically, the study synthesizes the relevant empirical research on the contributions historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have made for black student success, leading to an original model that all institutions can adapt to their contexts. Significantly, this is the first HBCU-based theoretical model to appear in the academic literature. The study concludes with several implications for research and practice, including testing the model and using it in institutional planning. MARYBETH GASMAN University of PennsylvaniaThis conceptual study builds an institution-focused, non-Eurocentric, theoretical framework of black college student success. Specifically, the study synthesizes the relevant empirical research on the contributions historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have made for black student success, leading to an original model that all institutions can adapt to their contexts. Significantly, this is the first HBCU-based theoretical model to appear in the academic literature. The study concludes with several implications for research and practice, including testing the model and using it in institutional planning.

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An HBCU-Based Educational Approach for Black College Student Success: Toward a Framework with Implications for All Institutions

Arroyo

Gasman

2014

American Journal of Education

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“…Researchers have found, for example, that black undergraduate men are less prepared for the rigors of collegelevel work compared to their peers from other racial groups (Bonner & Bailey, 2006;Palmer, Davis, & Hilton, 2009). They also tend to be less engaged than others in college classrooms, clubs and structured campus activities, and enriching educational experiences outside the classroom Underpreparedness and disengagement are often identified as factors that help explain high college-dropout rates.…”

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Institutional Efforts to Improve Black Male Student Achievement: A Standards-Based Approach

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Kuykendall

2012

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

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“…4 Factors such as constrained economic resources, fewer opportunities for academic preparation, and less access to social capital, as well as overt (i.e., ''explicit'') race bias, hinder the advancement of blacks in academic science and medicine. 3,[5][6][7][8] In addition, a large body of theoretically sound, experimentally tested evidence makes a compelling case that the mere existence of race stereotypes leads to unconscious or ''implicit'' bias. 9,10 Implicit bias is prejudice in favor of or against a person or group that functions outside of conscious attentional focus.…”

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“Fair Play”: A Videogame Designed to Address Implicit Race Bias Through Active Perspective Taking

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Kaatz

Chu

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Games for Health Journal

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Objective: Having diverse faculty in academic health centers will help diversify the healthcare workforce and reduce health disparities. Implicit race bias is one factor that contributes to the underrepresentation of Black faculty. We designed the videogame ''Fair Play'' in which players assume the role of a Black graduate student named Jamal Davis. As Jamal, players experience subtle race bias while completing ''quests'' to obtain a science degree. We hypothesized that participants randomly assigned to play the game would have greater empathy for Jamal and lower implicit race bias than participants randomized to read narrative text describing Jamal's experience. Materials and Methods: University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students were recruited via e-mail and randomly assigned to play ''Fair Play'' or read narrative text through an online link. Upon completion, participants took an Implicit Association Test to measure implicit bias and answered survey questions assessing empathy toward Jamal and awareness of bias. Results: As hypothesized, gameplayers showed the least implicit bias but only when they also showed high empathy for Jamal (P = 0.013). Gameplayers did not show greater empathy than text readers, and women in the text condition reported the greatest empathy for Jamal (P = 0.008). However, high empathy only predicted lower levels of implicit bias among those who actively took Jamal's perspective through gameplay (P = 0.014). Conclusions: A videogame in which players experience subtle race bias as a Black graduate student has the potential to reduce implicit bias, possibly because of a game's ability to foster empathy through active perspective taking.

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Exploring Challenges That Threaten to Impede the Academic Success of Academically Underprepared Black Males at an HBCU

Cited by 81 publications

References 52 publications

An HBCU-Based Educational Approach for Black College Student Success: Toward a Framework with Implications for All Institutions

An HBCU-Based Educational Approach for Black College Student Success: Toward a Framework with Implications for All Institutions

Institutional Efforts to Improve Black Male Student Achievement: A Standards-Based Approach

“Fair Play”: A Videogame Designed to Address Implicit Race Bias Through Active Perspective Taking

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