Part 1: Higher education for blacks in America -- 1. Role of black and of white colleges in educating black students -- 2. Issues in the education of black students -- Part 2: Studying intellectual and social development of black students -- 3. Procedures for studying college students and environments -- 4. Black colleges in the urban south : settings for growth -- 5. White colleges in the urban south : obstacles to adjustment -- 6. Colleges in the southwest : findings from in-depth studies of student growth -- 7. Colleges in the deep south : reversing the patterns of cosmopolitan environments -- 8. Colleges in the north : similarities to patterns in the south -- Part 3: Comparing the impacts of college on black and white students -- 9. Differences by race -- 10. Differences by race and sex -- Part 4: Conclusion -- 11. Implications for the education of black students -- 12. Summarizing the impacts of college on students.