Recently added articles from The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:
45 Years Ago: A. Philip Randolph's 1963 March on Washington
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Forty-five years ago on August 28, 1963, 250,000 African Americans descended on Washington, D.C., to protest the slow pace at which the nation was moving toward racial equality. More than 2,000 busloads of people, including dozens of buses from historically black colleges and universities, ...
Frederick Douglass Patterson: 1901-1988
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... This issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is dedicated to the memory of Frederick Douglass Patterson 1901-1988 Frederick Douglass Patterson established the United Negro College Fund in 1944. He was also the third president of Tuskegee University and founder ...
Wake Forest Presents the Most Serious Threat So Far to the Future of the SAT
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... According to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, more than 750 colleges and universities nationwide no longer require applicants to submit scores on either the SAT or ACT college admission test. Over the past decade the number of colleges that have decided ...
R.I.P., Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (1921-2008)
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Jesse Helms, the five-term U.S. senator from North Carolina, died this past Independence Day in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was 86 years old. Obituaries generally described him as a colorful conservative noted for his patriotism and broadsides against liberals. GOP Senate leader Mitch ...
Ranking the Nation's Flagship State Universities and Historically Black Colleges on Their Success in Enrolling Low-Income Students
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The nation's flagship state universities have a mixed record in their efforts to enroll low-income students. But a large majority of black colleges and universities in the United States have student bodies in which more than one half of all students come from low-income families. In ...
Aid to Higher Education: Barack Obama Has a Serious Plan, John McCain Says Nothing
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Barack Obama has a comprehensive plan to make college more affordable for all Americans. John McCain does not. There are many issues on which presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have wide policy differences. These include the war in Iraq, offshore drilling, abortion, ...
No Blacks Among the New Fellows Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Each year the prestigious National Academy of Sciences selects new members. Inductees are those who in the academy's judgment have made the greatest contribution to scientific research, including social science research. Election to the academy is an extraordinary honor and membership is often ...
Princeton Professor Searches for a New Explanation for the Black-White Educational Achievement Gap
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Angel Harris, a sociologist at Princeton University, believes that traditional theories explaining the racial performance gap on standardized test scores and grade point averages need to be reexamined. He believes different parenting styles and methods between blacks and whites may contribute to ...
Declining Black Enrollments at Many of the Nation's Highest-Ranked Law Schools
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Over the past eight years black enrollments have declined at a majority of the top-ranked law schools. At nine high-ranking law schools black enrollments are down by 19 percent or more. Three prestigious law schools in the nation show declines of more than 40 percent. Nationwide in 1999 ...
Tracking the 10-Year Change in Black Student First-Year Enrollments at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Of the nation's leading universities, Vanderbilt University has shown the most impressive progress over the past decade in increasing black freshman enrollments. Large increases have also occurred at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, UCLA, Tufts, and MIT. The largest decline in black first-year ...
Six African-American Students Win Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarships
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Black students who have completed community college receive funding to pursue their bachelor's degrees at some of America's most prestigious colleges and universities. Approximately 6.5 million students attend the nation's community colleges. More than 900,000 of these students are ...
The Racial Wealth Gap Is Widening: Blacks Increasingly Disadvantaged in Their Ability to Pay for College
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Over the past decade, in actual dollars the racial wealth gap has doubled. In 1993 the median net worth of white households was 10 times greater than the median worth of black households. Now, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the white-black ratio has increased to 16 to 1! For the ...
Black University Lecturer Elected to the Italian Parliament
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... In 1979 Jean Leonard Touadi left his native Congo to enter college in Italy. He earned a degree in philosophy from the Vatican Gregorian University and a second degree in journalism and political science from Liberà Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome. When civil war ...
Black Members at Two of America's Most Prestigious Learned Societies
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Over the years, blacks have been largely excluded from membership in America's learned societies. But radical changes have occurred in recent years paralleling the admission of blacks to posts in the academic world. Established in 1780 by John Adams, the American Academy of Arts and ...
Grading Controversy Erupts at Historically Black Norfolk State University
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A white professor contends that many historically black universities are dumbing down academic standards in order to show progress in increasing the number of black students studying in the sciences. He also asserts that his university has lowered standards to keep federal grant money ...
Joshua Packwood Makes History at Morehouse College
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... This past May a white man from Kansas City with a 4.0 grade point average was named valedictorian at historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta. In May, Joshua Packwood was honored as valedictorian of the Class of 2008 at Morehouse College, the historically black educational ...
New Web Site Provides a Forum for Campus Racism
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The widely accessed campus Web site JuicyCampus.com has hundreds of Web postings containing the word "nigger" and thousands of other messages that publish disparaging comments about blacks and other minorities. Free speech is a guiding principle on most campuses of the nation's colleges ...
Eliminating the Racial Gap in College Graduation Rates
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A new report finds that many good colleges and universities have been successful in eliminating the graduation rate gap between black and white students. The study concludes that institutional strategies for achieving improved graduation rates are well known. What is often lacking is an ...
Northwestern University Is the Newest Partner in the QuestBridge Program
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The QuestBridge program, which helps low-income students find places at some of the nation's most prestigious colleges and universities, has added Northwestern University as its newest partner institution. Beginning next year, as many as 25 low-income QuestBridge students will receive full ...
How Black Parents Perceive Urban Schools
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A new survey from the National School Boards Association finds that, as expected, black parents have a very low opinion of the education offered their children in urban public schools. The research also shows that many African-American adults have bought into the stereotype that black children ...