Recently added articles from The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:
Edward Alexander Bouchet 1852-1918
Jul 01, 2009; ... In 1870 Edward Alexander Bouchet, a black man, enrolled at Yale University. Four years later in 1874, Bouchet became the first African American to earn a degree from Yale College. He graduated with the highest honors and was the second black American to be named to Phi Beta Kappa. Two years ...
Letters
Jul 01, 2009; ... Fairfield University's Efforts to Promote Diversity TO THE EDITOR: You published on your Web site The Princeton Review ranking of selective colleges and universities in which there is "little socialization between black and white students." It was disappointing for us at ...
Editor's Note: Honest Talk About the Higher Education of Black Men
Jul 01, 2009; ... In recent years the pages of JBHE have been blessed with an abundance of good news. Many of the statistics show breathtaking progress. Today there are more than 2 million African Americans enrolled in higher education. More man 4.5 million living African Americans now hold a four-year ...
The Front Porch Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Jul 01, 2009; ... JBHE archives contain a long history of racial profiling of distinguished black scholars. Without investigation black professors have been automatic suspects of crime, misdemeanor, and other improprieties. BLACK MEN AND black women in all walks of life in the United States are frequently ...
A Harvest of Good News on African Americans in Higher Education
Jul 01, 2009; ... Don't be discouraged by recent setbacks in measures to advance African-American higher education. There has been important progress on many fronts. Occasionally, readers complain that much of the content of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is punc- tuated with doom and gloom ...