Cognitive effects of college racial composition on African American students after 3 years of college

The findings of this 3-year longitudinal study, based on 172 African Americ an students, extend previous research by suggesting that evert in the prese nce of an extensive set of controls for important individual and institutio nal level confounding influences, attendance at an historically Black colle ge significantly enhances the intellectual growth of African American stude nts. This finding held for both standardized, objective measures of reading comprehension, and for self-reported measures of gains in understanding th e arts and humanities and in understanding science.