ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a critical review of the history of higher education and its long-standing practices of limited access and segregation. It helps social justice educators to reposition the narrative. History records the consistent exclusion of African Americans and other minoritized groups from learning institutions, including “separate but equal” policies. Today, a time of both limited access to higher education and lack of support for BIPOC students that has led to lower graduation rates and reduced pathways to higher degrees, the model of Each One Teach One offers an effective mentoring model that nurtures the learning process, counters a system that excludes, and disrupts patterns of disenfranchisement for BIPOC communities. Blacks sought educational access for upward mobility. A brief review of BIPOC students’ progress at the high school level demonstrates an educational gap. A brief review of BIPOC academic faculty underscores a significant underrepresentation of BIPOC groups in the professoriate.
