Graduate Program

College Student Affairs

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Semester of Degree Completion

2006

Thesis Director

Charles Eberly

Thesis Committee Member

James Wallace

Thesis Committee Member

Richard Roberts

Abstract

The purposes of this qualitative study were to evaluate teacher/student relationships between African American male college students and white male professors to ascertain to perceptions of college among African American males on a predominantly white campus. To be considered for participation, each student met the following criteria: (1) in their final year of college, (2) had at least one white male instructor, and (3) African American male. Characteristics such as age, academic degree program, extracurricular involvement, and prior enrollment at another institution were not considered among the selection criteria to protect confidentiality. Results from the present study include the perceptions of college of five African American males enrolled at a predominantly mid-sized white institution in the Midwest.

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