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Essay on African Americans
In many situations, communication is jeopardized when people feel that the manner or style of the communication is inappropriate, or that the person involved is not the appropriate person. Effective communication is difficult to achieve when a person from the majority culture speaks for the interests of the minority group in the absence of an appropriate spokesperson, when an administrator makes decisions about a program or service without consulting his or her staff, or when academic experts with little field experience are responsible for professional training. In addition, apart from these basic conditions of communication, the manner, style, and organization of communicative activity will provide many cues and messages that can have significant impacts on people’s feelings of well-being, and their orientation to activities and agendas.
Today's African-American students can attend college anywhere that their grades, talents, and interests will take them. Increasingly, they're looking at historically black colleges and universities because they want the unique experience that only such institutions offer (Davis, 2002).
It is a commonly held assumption that education, and especially higher education, is the recognized corridor through which America’s minorities, including African-Americans, move from rejection, deprivation, and isolation to acceptance, economic efficiency, and inclusion. It is probably the only way to achieve social and economic equality in our society. Barton has commented that “it appears that the attainment of higher education will continue to be one of the most important requirements for occupational and economic success.
African-Americans who have graduated from college have expressed that as a result of their college experience they have developed connectedness in society and that their participation in higher education is a source of healing, satisfaction, and personal growth which influences them to see themselves as contributing members of society.In the last 20 years, the college enrollment rates of African Americans have steadily increased to the point that they now go to college at about the same rates as White students.....
