Case for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of State Funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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Abstract

It took nearly twenty years after the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision for most southern and border states to submit desegregation plans to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Despite OCR oversight, dismantling the vestiges of legal segregation in public higher education proved difficult in the face of the choice-driven market of higher education, and in many cases statewide higher education desegregation policy was considered a failure. There have been many examinations of the effects of state financial policies on HBCUs, focused on the legacy of unequal and inequitable spending in comparison to traditionally white institutions and state funding allocations tied to accountability policies, however there is a dearth of inquiry considering how these two areas intersect. In this poster presentation, I will assert the need for a systematic review and meta-analysis of state funding for Black institutions of higher education (both Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions) situated in states formerly under OCR oversight to examine how performance based funding may be used to continue a legacy of inequitable spending on Black institutions. This proposed systematic review and meta-analysis would examine the correlation between Black institutions formerly funded within a state system that practiced segregation de jure and current neoliberal accountability policies like performance-based funding. This would also include a systematic search for published and unpublished literature about state appropriations for Black institutions of higher education in former OCR mandated states and those who are currently utilizing performance based funding to allocate appropriations for higher education.

Author

• Sosanya M. Jones, Howard University