Abstract
This manuscript considers the political attitudes of Black students at Historically Black Colleges & Universities using a 2015 sample of first-year respondents. In response to this special issue’s call to consider issues of student protest at Minority Serving Institutions, our manuscript offers empirical evidence on students’ political dispositions at Historically Black Colleges & Universities. Indeed, understanding the civic dispositions and political ideologies of Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is not only a timely topic, but also a necessary one if we are to understand the future political engagement of an increasingly diverse nation (Lefever, 2005; Williamson, 2008).
Highlights
Black Colleges and Universities have garnered substantial attention during Trump’s presidency given the ambivalent relationship between HBCU leaders and the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (C-SPAN, 2018)
Our data come from a subset of the 2015 Freshman Survey consisting of Black respondents at Historically Black Colleges (n = 6,779) and compares these responses to those of Black respondents from non-HBCUs (n = 9,778)
More than half (56.4 percent) of African American students at private HBCUs, scored in the top of the social agency construct as compared to 45.2 percent of African American students at public HBCUs, an 11.2 percentage point difference
Summary
Black Colleges and Universities have garnered substantial attention during Trump’s presidency given the ambivalent relationship between HBCU leaders and the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (C-SPAN, 2018). In the context of these precarious political moments, scholarship must attend to the attitudes that students bring to their social consciousness and dispositions toward activism. This manuscript considers the political attitudes of Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities using a 2015 sample of first-year respondents. Following this special issue’s call to consider issues of student protest at Minority Serving Institutions, our manuscript offers empirical evidence on students’ political dispositions at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Frequently demonstrated for a cause (e.g., 6.2 boycott, rally, protest)
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