ABSTRACT
Research on Black undergraduate women concludes that various obstacles challenge their abilities to succeed academically and to successfully integrate into the campus community (e.g., Charleston George, Jackson, Berhanu, and Amechi, 2014; Domingue, 2015; Howard-Hamilton, 2003a; Winkle-Wagner, 2015). Yet, Black women have traditionally been overlooked as a population requiring targeted attention within student support services. Grounded in the extant literature on the experiences and perceptions of Black undergraduate women, this chapter highlights the empirical warrant for support programs that target the needs of this population and provides recommendations on how to institutionalize such support programs. The recommendations offered may be used to guide the process of structuring support programs in congruence with issues noted to confront Black undergraduate women, with an eye toward institutionalizing and improving support services for this population.
