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Too white or too black?
African Americans are less likely to enroll in college than whites. Once there, they have lower graduation rates, especially men. Integration is the classic solution, but many blacks report having negative experiences on predominantly white campuses.
How can colleges improve black students' experiences and better support their academic success? The answers must emerge from the ways in which the students describe what they're going through.
Dr. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, an assistant professor in educational administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explored the experiences of African American women undergraduates on a predominantly white Midwestern campus.
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She titled her 2006 dissertation at Indiana University The Unchosen Me: Institutionally Imposed Identity and Women's College Experiences. She worked at Botswana University, Indiana University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at Nebraska.
Do others impose an identity on minority students that affects their college experience? Do school policies and practices exacerbate this? She spoke on these topics at the University of Nebraska's conference on Women in Educational Leadership in Lincoln in October.
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