Preparing For College
Has Its Ups And Downs
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Preparing for college has
its upa and downs. But
don’t worry. Authors, edu
cators, counselors and doc
tors have foreseen the pro
blems many face when
confronted with choosing,
financing, attending and
Succeeding in coBege.
Books on the subject in
clude “Anyone Can Go To
College" by Herbert B.
Livesey, Director of Ad
missions, New York Uni
versity; “The Seventeen
Guide To CoBege” By Da
vid Klein.
If you are looking for
financial aid look for “The
Grants Register’' by Ro
land Turner or “Financing
College Education’’ by
Kenneth A. Kohl and Irene
C. Kohl. It must be a pretty
good book! It’s in its third
edtion.
"How to Beat the High
cost of Learning: Guide to
Student financial Aid” by
I^o L. Kornfeld, Gonnie
McClung Siegel and Wil
liam Seigel is also in your
local library.
Don’t miss out on the
‘The Ambitious Student’s
Guide to Scholarships and
Loans” by Robert Leiden.
And for all those high
school students with talent
dripping from their shoul
ders “Winning Money For
College,” by Alan Deut
schman (1964) will tell yu
about numerous competi
tions (writing, art,etc.) for
college money.
First Public School
Was Established In 1647
Although the first public
school of record was
established in 1M7 in
Massachusetts, few attend
ed, for most children were
needed at home to helo
work the farm or small
business.
No where was this more
eridence than in the Black
The hunger for literacy,
whUe^eerarely limited and
satisfied for actnTthieugh
clandestine means; others
through the aegis of church
groups. In 17M, New
Jersey was the firststate to
pan a law requiring com
pulsory education for
slaves.
Nevertheless, when the
Ovfl War ended, although
four Black colleges were
*^^dy^ inexistence, over
literate. A separate system
of education for them was
begun by the Freedman's
Bureau; and Blacks went
about the task of closing
the educational gap that
yusra of deprivation had
opened. Limited funds
niea into pencils. Even
when the rudimentory tools
were unavailable, they
returned to the oral tradi
tion and taught their eager
■tudents by recitation.
So determined was the
coalition of Blades and
whites to educate the
masses, that within the
first ten post-Bellum years,
twenty-three colleges were
added to Central State
(Wilberforce) Ohio,
Cheney State, Lincoln
Universities in Penn
sylvania and the District .of
Colombia College in -
Washington, D. C. Cheney
State College founded in
1837, has the distinction of
being the oldest Black col- H
lege in existence.
It was immediately
evidence that the colleges
had to act as an umbrella.
They offered courses to
satisfy any need, be it voca
tional, classical, trade, -
academic, or remedial.
Tney became a beacon of .
hope and it mattered not
that the buildings were not
try covered. In fact, most
began quite humbly. For
example, Tougaloo College
in Mississippi used the site
of a former plantation;
Atlanta University began
in an abandoned railroad
box car; Talladega College
In Alabama uoed a former
prison and Spelman Col
lage in Atlanta used the
Thus began the tradition
of building a foundation of
the Black professional
world. From twenty-eight
college educated Blush* in
the ISM'S, the number
swelled and' hundred times
that in leas than four j
decades. These numbers
would continue to Increase
dramatically after the
Pleasy V. Ferguson deci
sion in 1IM made
“separate but equal”
education the law of the
And finally if you feel as
if the tuition fee is just not
within your range perhaps
Bruce Donald’s “Cuttii^
CoOege Cost” can help yu
trim that fee.
It may not be easy to get
extra money for college
these days but these au
thors are certainly provid
ing you with a wealth of
information...all you have
to do is go to the library,
pick up a book and read.
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