Recently added articles from The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:
75 Years Ago, Black Men Were Mere Commodities Who Were Commonly Subject to Public Lynching. Now, a Black Man Has Been Elected President of the United States
Oct 01, 2008; ... Three generations ago, the citizens of Indiana and many other states commonly attended puhlic spectacles of lynchings of Negroes. Pictured here is the 1930 lynching of two black men in Marion, Indiana. This fall, the predominantly white state of Indiana voted to elect a black man ...
J. Lorand Matory Leaves Harvard
Oct 01, 2008; ... Over the past five years Harvard University has lost a number of prominent black scholars to other universities. These include Cornel West, K. Anthony Appiah, Michael Dawson, Wallace Best, and Caroline Hoxby. Now, prominent anthropologist J. Lorand Matory is leaving Harvard for Duke. Matory ...
What Does the Election of Barack Obama Mean for African-American Higher Education?
Oct 01, 2008; ... Over the past eight years the GOP has sought to eliminate race-based affirmative action, curtail scholarships earmarked for blacks, and failed to significantly increase funding for Pell Grants for low-income students. President Bush has appointed scores of federal judges to lifetime ...
Center for Equal Opportunity Continues Its Battle to End Affirmative Action Admissions at the Nation's Law Schools
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Center for Equal Opportunity, the right-wing political advocacy organization headed by Linda Chavez, has published three reports alleging that state-operated law schools in Arizona and Nebraska are practicing race-sensitive admissions policies that go far beyond the guidelines set forth in ...
College and University Administrators: Look for an Expected Backlash From the Election of Barack Obama
Oct 01, 2008; ... The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States is expected to produce advances in the educational opportunities of blacks and other racial minorities. Nevertheless, Obama 's election to the presidency is likely to encourage right-wing opposition to the initiatives that ...
Black Enrollments on the Rise at a Large Number of Flagship State Universities
Oct 01, 2008; ... Several of the nation's flagship state universities are reporting increases in black enrollments this fall. * At Indiana University in Bloomington, there are 1,749 black students enrolled this year, the highest number ever recorded. Black enrollments are up 5 percent from a year ...
Black Enrollments at the Nation's Christian Colleges Are on the Rise
Oct 01, 2008; ... Many evangelical Christian colleges show solid enrollments of black students. But there remains a core group of evangelical schools that are virtually off limits to black students. The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities is a group of 105 institutions of higher learning that ...
A Current Portrait of Public Black Colleges and Universities
Oct 01, 2008; ... A PORTRAIT OF PUBLIC BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES The nation's state-operated black colleges and universities have shown considerable progress in increasing enrollments and boosting degree attainments. The Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc., named for the late U.S. Supreme ...
His Most Familiar Subject
Oct 01, 2008; ... It is very tempting to confine my talk tonight to the subject that I am most familiar with, the law." - Clarence Thomas at the American Enterprise Institute February 13, 2001 "Professors and administrators from his era [at Yale Law School] recall him as an average ...
The Widening Racial Gap in ACT College Admission Test Scores
Oct 01, 2008; ... Since 2004 the mean score for blacks on the ACT college entrance examination has declined slightly from 17.1 to 16.9. In the same period the mean score for whites has shown a slight improvement from 21.8 to 22.1. Therefore, the racial gap in ACT scores is widening. In states along the ...
UCLA Professor Charges His University With Cheating on Admissions of Unqualified Black Students
Oct 01, 2008; ... Over the last two years, the number of first-year black students enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles has more than doubled. A professor at the university charges that AfricanAmerican applicants are receiving an unlawful advantage in the admissions process. In 2006 ...
Proposition 209 Has Crippled Black Faculty Hiring at the University of California
Oct 01, 2008; ... It has been well documented that the ban on California affirmative action has had a huge negative effect on black enrollments at the most prestigious campuses of the University of California. But the ban, which also affects faculty hiring decisions, has resulted in reductions in black faculty ...
150 Years Ago: The Role of Oberlin College Students in the Rescue of a Runaway Slave
Oct 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 legalized the apprehension of runaway slaves in free states and their return to slavery in southern states. As a result, slaves who were able to escape and cross the MasonDixon Line into Pennsylvania or cross the Ohio River from Kentucky into Ohio were no ...
Black Enterprise Magazine's Bizarre Rankings of the Nation's Colleges and Universities
Oct 01, 2008; ... The huge inconsistencies from year to year in the Black Enterprise rankings of the best colleges for African Americans produce serious questions as to whether their ranking formula has any validity whatsoever. Every two years Black Enterprise magazine publishes its list of the "Top 50 ...
Four Blacks Win MacArthur Genius Awards
Oct 01, 2008; ... Over the past 27 years, 91 African-American scholars, authors, and performing artists have been awarded more than $32.6 million in MacArthur grants. he winners of MacArthur Foundation genius awards are scholars and artists - individuals generally not well known to the American public who ...
Blacks Making Solid Progress in Graduate School Enrollments: Women Are in the Lead
Oct 01, 2008; ... While graduate enrollments for both black men and black women are on the rise, black women now make up 73 percent of all African-American enrollments in graduate programs in the United States. A new report by the Council of Graduate Schools finds that African Americans continue to make ...
Blacks Lose Ground in Medical School Applications and New Enrollments
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that for the first time since 2002, the number of applicants to medical school has declined. In percentage terms the decrease was very small, only two tenths of one percent. But the number of black applicants declined at a greater ...
Five Blacks Elected to the Institute of Medicine
Oct 01, 2008; ... As a result of historical patterns of segregation and discrimination, blacks are better represented in honorary societies associated with the field of medicine than with other scientific disciplines. Although no official racial data is available, JBHE research has shown that blacks make ...
Princeton University to Expand Its Prize Competition for Students Who Work to Achieve Better Race Relations
Oct 01, 2008; ... This past spring, the Princeton Prize in Race Relations, sponsored by the Princeton University Alumni Association, was awarded to 29 high school students across the country who made a positive impact on race relations at their school or in the community. Competitions for the awards were held in ...
New Book to Explore the "Chicago Renaissance"
Oct 01, 2008; ... Jacqueline Goldsby, associate professor of English lan- guage and literature at the University of Chicago, is con- ducting research on an early twentieth century phenomenon that has had a profound effect on the African- American lit- erary tradition. The period she is examining is not the Harlem ...