Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.1111/ssqu.13132

Publication Title

Social Science Quarterly

Volume

103

Issue

2

Pages

317-327

Abstract

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are among the least researched sectors of American higher education. This article addresses a portion of this knowledge deficit by focusing on the determinants of the full-time equivalent enrollments of 50 HBCUs between fiscal year FY 2005 and FY 2018 and then comparing them to a broad sample of 182 non-HBCUs. The most noteworthy specific results generated by our analyses are: (1) increased recruitment of white students by HBCUs may not hold the key to HBCU enrollment success; (2) the incomes of the households from which students emanate have a major positive influence on HBCU enrollments; (3) HBCU campuses whose resource allocations pay more attention to the instruction and student services have higher enrollments; (4) intercollegiate athletic expenditures in general and the operation of an Football Championship Subdivision (FBS)-level football program, in particular, are massively important determinants of HBCU enrollments; and (5) the predicted FY full-time equivalent enrollment (FTE) of an HBCU is less than one-half of what would hold true for a comparably situated non-HBCU.

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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0), which permits use anddistribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. Publisher version available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ssqu.13132

Original Publication Citation

Koch, J. V., & Swinton, O. H. (2022). Pulling back the veil: What determines HBCU campus enrollments? Social Science Quarterly, 103(2), 317-327. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13132

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