The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education back issues from October 1999:
The African-American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School
Oct 31, 1999 ... The African-American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School IN THE UNITED STATES there are 675,000 African Americans who hold master's degrees, 114,000 African Americans who have professional degrees, and 73,000 black Americans who have been awarded doctorates. All of them managed ...
Africa Time
Oct 31, 1999 ... Africa Time MAKERERE UNIVERSITY WAS founded in 1921 in Kampala, Uganda. It became affiliated with the University of London in 1949 and won full university status in 1970. Known as the "Harvard of Africa," Makerere was an African center of postcolonial political, economic, and social ...
When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South
Oct 31, 1999 ... When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South THROUGHOUT THE ANTEBELLUM South, laws were passed forbidding the teaching of reading and writing to a slave or to a free black person. An 1829 Georgia law called for a white man to be fined $500 and ...
The Black Man Who Is Police Chief of the World
Oct 31, 1999 ... The Black Man Who Is Police Chief of the World When Ronald K. Noble was sworn in as undersecretary of the Treasury for Enforcement at age 38, some newspapers called him "the highest-ranking black in the history of law enforcement." But this July Noble was appointed secretary general of ...
The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action at the University of California
Oct 31, 1999; ... The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action at the University of California IN HIS FASCINATING memoir of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1930s sociologist Robert Nisbet describes the campus, with some exaggeration, as "99.99 percent white. I didn't know of a single ...
Explaining the Black-White Gap in SAT Scores
Oct 31, 1999 ... Explaining the Black-White Gap in SAT Scores An issue of very great concern to our readers is why the stubborn black-white gap in SAT scores persists. Despite all that is written on the matter, the answer to this question appears to be rather simple: Black students, for a host of ...
JBHE Readers Select the Most Important African Americans of the Twentieth Century
Oct 31, 1999 ... JBHE Readers Select the Most Important African Americans of the Twentieth Century IN THE SUMMER ISSUE of JBHE, we reported the results of our survey of black journalists on the news events of the twentieth century that they considered to be the most important to African Americans.(*) The ...
Banish the Stereotype That Blacks Are Incapable of Conducting Scientific Research
Oct 31, 1999 ... Banish the Stereotype That Blacks Are Incapable of Conducting Scientific Research There is a general perception in the American scientific community that black people lack the intellectual firepower to engage in complex scientific research. From the standpoint of the institutions that ...
News and Views: New Statistics on What Happens to Young Blacks After They Graduate From College
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: New Statistics on What Happens to Young Blacks After They Graduate From College Today about 15 percent of adult African Americans have a college diploma. And, as expected, a college education is producing important economic gains for African Americans. Census figures now ...
News and Views: The Education of Sculptress Elizabeth Catlett
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Education of Sculptress Elizabeth Catlett After graduation from high school in 1932, Elizabeth Catlett applied to the prestigious fine arts program at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. She impressed the admissions board but was denied enrollment at the school. On ...
News and Views: Blacks Are Absent From the Top-Scoring Ranks of the ACT College Admissions Test
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Blacks Are Absent From the Top-Scoring Ranks of the ACT College Admissions Test In a race-neutral admissions environment, where standardized test scores are given increased weight by college admissions officers, the odds are increasing that all but a very few black ...
News and Views: "Coon Cards": Racist Postcards Have Become Collectors' Items
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: "Coon Cards": Racist Postcards Have Become Collectors' Items It seems that when white people look at the face of a black person they tend to feel one of two emotions: laughter or fear. Laughter and ridicule prevailed in the post-Civil War period and the first half of the ...
Louise Thompson Patterson 1901-1999
Oct 31, 1999 ... Louise Thompson Patterson 1901-1999 Louise Thompson Patterson, the last survivor of the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, died this past August in New York at the age of 97. Louise Thompson was born in Chicago in 1901 but was reared in the Pacific Northwest. She ...
News and Views: Blacks in British Higher Education
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Blacks in British Higher Education In the United Kingdom there is no journal or other publication similar to JBHE. No one in England regularly documents the progress of blacks in the British system of higher education. One reason may be that statistics on the enrollment ...
News and Views: Texas Southern University; The Stepchild of the Texas Higher Education System
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Texas Southern University; The Stepchild of the Texas Higher Education System Under the U.S. Constitution it is unlawful for the states to treat blacks and whites unequally. In attacking affirmative action, racial conservatives are quick to invoke these provisions of the ...
News and Views: The Large and Growing Digital Divide for Black and White College Students
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Large and Growing Digital Divide for Black and White College Students In the United States, the network society is creating two parallel information and communications systems -- one for whites and one for blacks. One would expect that the racial gap would shrink for ...
Cheryl Mills Says No
Oct 31, 1999 ... Cheryl Mills Says No At JBHE we make every effort to alert our readers whenever an African American is named to a major position, especially appointments to high posts that have never been held by a black person. But it's just as important for readers to hear about the invariably ...
News and Views: Mamphela Ramphele Goes to Washington
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Mamphela Ramphele Goes to Washington Thirty-two years ago in 1967, Mamphela Ramphele, then an undergraduate student at a university in South Africa, received a telegram from the medical school at the University of Natal. The telegram read: "You have been admitted ....
News and Views: The Nearly Lily-White Harvard Society of Fellows
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Nearly Lily-White Harvard Society of Fellows In 1921 Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell ordered a policy of racial segregation in Harvard's dormitories. In justifying this policy Lowell stated that the increasing number of Harvard students from southern states would ...
News and Views: So Much for the Theory That Blacks Can't Do Mathematics
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: So Much for the Theory That Blacks Can't Do Mathematics There are deep-seated traditions sustaining American beliefs that black people do not have sufficient intellectual horsepower to do serious mathematics. Thomas Jefferson was the author of a famous document that ...
News and Views: Leading Advocate of a Revival of the Old Confederacy Resigns a Tenured Professorship at a Black College
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Leading Advocate of a Revival of the Old Confederacy Resigns a Tenured Professorship at a Black College Not all the folks who long for a return to the racial values of the Old South are hooded Klansmen riding around in pickup tracks with rebel flags on their antennae ....
Lino Graglia: Racial Polemicist at the University of Texas
Oct 31, 1999 ... Lino Graglia: Racial Polemicist at the University of Texas In 1986 Professor Lino A. Graglia of the University of Texas School of Law was under consideration by the Reagan administration for a seat on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But Reagan was forced to abandon the ...
News and Views: Affirmative Action in the Courts; Here Are Some Reasons Why That's a Bad Place for Blacks to Be
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Affirmative Action in the Courts; Here Are Some Reasons Why That's a Bad Place for Blacks to Be Here at JBHE we make no secret of our belief that the angels are on the side of American liberals who are defending the continuing use of race-sensitive admissions to improve ...
News and Views: Sperm Donors From America's Most Selective Universities; Limited Choices for Black Women
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Sperm Donors From America's Most Selective Universities; Limited Choices for Black Women Inquiries into black-white race relations in the United States are frequently best seen through the lens of situations in which it is impossible for people to lie about their true ...
News and Views: Ranking Black Colleges and Universities According to the Number of Mentions in the National Press
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Ranking Black Colleges and Universities According to the Number of Mentions in the National Press For the second year, JBHE presents its rankings of historically black colleges and universities based on the number of times the institutions were mentioned in the national ...
News and Views: College Application Essays for Sale; What About College-Bound Blacks?
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: College Application Essays for Sale; What About College-Bound Blacks? In the past, the college admissions advantage belonged to students who could afford $800 or more for professional coaching on the math and verbal sections of the Scholastic Assessment Test. But the ...
News and Views: Wake Forest University Wants to End Its Whites-Only Scholarship
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Wake Forest University Wants to End Its Whites-Only Scholarship If one is in the business of measuring academic standing, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is one of the best-kept secrets in American higher education. Founded in 1834, the university ...
News and Views: JBHE Issues a Report Card for Blacks on Book Web Sites
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: JBHE Issues a Report Card for Blacks on Book Web Sites There are still some African Americans who hesitate to enter the comer bookstore. Many African Americans recall the days when they were not welcome to browse or even enter bookstores in many American cities. There are ...
A Lonely Black Republican: Up From a Cincinnati Housing Project
Oct 31, 1999 ... A Lonely Black Republican: Up From a Cincinnati Housing Project This past summer J. Kenneth Blackwell, secretary of state of Ohio, was named the national chairman of the Steve Forbes presidential campaign, the first African American to direct a major party presidential campaign. Black ...
Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 1922-1999: He was second only to Nelson Mandela as the most eminent African Leader of our time
Oct 31, 1999 ... Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 1922-1999: He was second only to Nelson Mandela as the most eminent African leader of our time. Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the giant of the African liberation movement and the father of Tanzania, died in London this past October after a long battle with leukemia ....
Edward C. Banfield 1916-1999
Oct 31, 1999 ... Edward C. Banfield 1916-1999 Edward C. Banfield, professor emeritus of government at Harvard University, who was the first scholar to propose that dysfunctional class behavior, rather than racism, was the primary cause of black poverty in the United States, died on September 30, 1999 at ...
Bill Gates' Gift to Racial Preferences in Higher Education
Oct 31, 1999; ... Bill Gates' Gift to Racial Preferences in Higher Education RACIAL CONSERVATIVES ARE correct. The huge billion-dollar Gates Millennium Scholarship program is racially discriminatory. The terms of the plan could not be clearer. Whites may not apply! Ward Connerly, the black man who ...
American Science Leaders: Racial Stereotype Busters; Black Scientists Who Made a Difference
Oct 31, 1999 ... American Science Leaders: Racial Stereotype Busters; Black Scientists Who Made a Difference IN TODAY'S POLITICALLY correct world, authors of books and collections who select the most important people in a given discipline or the greatest works of art or literature are accused of racism ...
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Oct 31, 1999 ... Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City THERE IS A theory of the world that you cannot get out of a bad situation unless you first pass through the depths of the abyss. Well, here is the abyss. In his new book, Code of the Street: Decency, ...
African-American College Graduation Rates: Blacks Do Best at the Nation's Most Selective Colleges and Universities
Oct 31, 1999 ... African-American College Graduation Rates: Blacks Do Best at the Nation's Most Selective Colleges and Universities BLACK STUDENT GRADUATION rates at the nation's colleges and universities provide a valuable measure of racial progress in our country. The college completion rates show, in ...
Juneteenth and Ralph Ellison's Impact on American Literature
Oct 31, 1999; ... Juneteenth and Ralph Ellison's Impact on American Literature RALPH ELLISON'S Juneteenth -- like one of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum -- is only the highly suggestive torso of a more fully elaborated work. After Ellison's death in 1984, his widow, Fanny Ellison, asked John ...
Thumbs Up for the Educational Testing Service's New Effort to Identify Strivers
Oct 31, 1999 ... Thumbs Up for the Educational Testing Service's New Effort to Identify Strivers This past summer the U.S. Department of Education drafted new regulations that warned colleges and universities that use standardized tests that are proven to discriminate against minority students as the ...
Dubious Data: The Thernstroms on Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Oct 31, 1999; ... Dubious Data: The Thernstroms on Affirmative Action in Higher Education IN THE RAGING DEBATE over affirmative action in higher education in the United States, Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom have become leading spokes-people for those who would do away with all race-conscious policies ....
This Wasn't Supposed to Happen: The Black-White SAT Gap Is Actually Growing Larger
Oct 31, 1999 ... This Wasn't Supposed to Happen: The Black-White SAT Gap Is Actually Growing Larger MANY PEOPLE believe that racial preferences are going to be banned at virtually every institution of higher education in the United States. If this happens, standardized tests will take on an even more ...
News and Views: The Sharp Decline in Need-Based Financial Aid for American College Students
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Sharp Decline in Need-Based Financial Aid for American College Students Government money moves toward political power. The political strength of conservatives and of the white middle classes coupled with low voter turnout among blacks and the poor has produced more ...
News and Views: Auditing the Numbers; Blacks in Academic Accounting
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Auditing the Numbers; Blacks in Academic Accounting Throughout the history of our nation, blacks have had almost no presence in the accounting profession. During the Jim Crow period the idea of a black person auditing books was beyond the ken of virtually all Americans ....
The Black engineer Who Is Rebuilding the Washington Monument
Oct 31, 1999 ... The Black Engineer Who Is Rebuilding the Washington Monument Throughout the history of the United States, blacks have had almost no presence in the field of engineering. As was the case with other professional disciplines involving calculation and dealing with hard data, Negroes were not ...
News and Views: A Black Former Michigan State University Basketball Star Now Heads a $4 Billion American Manufacturer
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: A Black Former Michigan State University Basketball Star Now Heads a $4 Billion American Manufacturer For the first 99 years of this century, no black person ever served as the chief executive officer of any of the nation's 500 largest corporations. In fact, it was almost ...
News and Views: Roger W. Ferguson Jr.'s Road to the Federal Reserve Board
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Roger W. Ferguson Jr.'s Road to the Federal Reserve Board In the late 1990s there are almost no highly placed blacks in the corporate offices of the nation's largest banks. But a black man now holds the number two position on the most important bank-governing board in the ...
News and Views: Trickle-Down Economics; The Progress of Black Men Who Have Not Gone to College
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Trickle-Down Economics; The Progress of Black Men Who Have Not Gone to College In the longest and most important economic boom of the century, this country is finally seeing some economic gains by blacks who have not gone to college. At the same time, it is almost certain ...
Gore Winning the Battle for the Black Vote
Oct 31, 1999 ... Gore Winning the Battle for the Black Vote Now we are just a few short months away from the first presidential primaries and caucuses that will determine the major party candidates for President of the United States in the November 2000 election. At this juncture Vice President A1 Gore ...
News and Views: Good News! Campus Crime Rates Are Down at Many Large Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Good News! Campus Crime Rates Are Down at Many Large Historically Black Colleges and Universities In 1986 Jeanne Clery, a white woman who was a nationally ranked amateur tennis player, was enrolled at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. One night an intruder ...
News and Views: Fourteen Black Colleges Could Be Forced to Close If They Fail To Reduce Their Student Loan Default Rates
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Fourteen Black Colleges Could Be Forced to Close If They Fail to Reduce Their Student Loan Default Rates In 1998 a Republican-led Congress enacted legislation that causes a college to lose its eligibility for federal student aid if its student loans sustain a 25 percent ...
News and Views: In University Rankings, Racial Diversity Counts for Nothing
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: In University Rankings, Racial Diversity Counts for Nothing For better or for worse, the organizations that rank the academic quality of colleges and universities have become a powerful force in higher education. A college's rankings tend to have an important impact on ...
When Harvard Excluded Negroes From University Housing
Oct 31, 1999 ... When Harvard Excluded Negroes From University Housing "In the fall of 1921 five colored youths applied for admission to the freshman class [at Harvard University], all of them having taken the examinations successfully, were admitted. Three applied for rooms in the Freshmen Dormitories, ...
The Man Who Coined the Term "Affirmative Action"
Oct 31, 1999 ... The Man Who Coined the Term "Affirmative Action" On January 20, 1961, Hobart T Taylor Jr., a young black lawyer from Houston, was a guest at the inaugural ball for the then new vice president, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Taylor's father was a prominent black businessman in Texas and a ...
News and Views: The Patriarch of the White Supremacist Movement
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Patriarch of the White Supremacist Movement This past July, 82-year-old Richard Butler, leader of the far-right white supremacist group Aryan Nations, led a parade of his supporters down the main street of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. The group, headquartered in a log cabin ...
Oseola McCarty 1908-1999
Oct 31, 1999 ... Oseola McCarty 1908-1999 Oseola McCarty, an African-American washerwoman with a sixth-grade education and a generous heart, died this past September from cancer of the liver at the age of 91. McCarty lived and worked all her life in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She lived frugally ...
News and Views: The Racial Record of Johns Hopkins University
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Racial Record of Johns Hopkins University In the mid-nineteenth century, entrepreneur Johns Hopkins was the principal owner of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was also one of the wealthiest men in the United States. An abolitionist even before the term was coined, ...
Ward Connerly: Less Interested in Getting Racial Justice Than in How He Will Get to Washington
Oct 31, 1999 ... Ward Connerly: Less Interested in Getting Racial Justice Than in How He Will Get to Washington Ward Connerly is the African-American California entrepreneur and regent of the University of California who chaired the campaign to enact Proposition 209 in California. This voter referendum ...
The Black Film Industry: Waiting to "Cross Over"
Oct 31, 1999 ... The Black Film Industry: Waiting to "Cross Over" It is often said that a function of higher education is to expunge many of the false beliefs and prejudices held by young students before they have entered college. Yet a far greater force, with potential for either controlling or ...
News and Views: The Presidency of Lincoln University; A Second Journey Through Jeopardy
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Presidency of Lincoln University; A Second Journey Through Jeopardy In November 1998 some 63 percent of the faculty members at Central Washington University, an 8,000-student, predominantly white, state-operated institution in Ellensburg, voted "no confidence" in the ...
University of Georgia's Full-Throated Support of Affirmative Action
Oct 31, 1999 ... University of Georgia's Full-Throated Support of Affirmative Action This fall's entering class at the University of Georgia is 6 percent black. This is at the flagship university in a state in which the college-age population is 30 percent African American. Despite the fact that ...
Annals of the Civil Rights Movement: 60 Years Ago
Oct 31, 1999 ... Annals of the Civil Rights Movement: 60 Years Ago In 1939 blacks were not permitted to try on clothes in department stores in Alexandria, Virginia. The local five-and-ten-cent store had three restrooms, one for "white ladies," one for "colored women," and one for "white men." Also, ...
News and Views: The Long Arms of Cheryl Hopwood
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Long Arms of Cheryl Hopwood In March 1996 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the Hopwood case that the race-sensitive admissions program at the University of Texas Law School was an unconstitutional practice. The sweep of the ruling effectively banned ...
News and Views: How Black Voters Can Exact Educational Gains From GOP Efforts to Win African-American Political Support
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: How Black Voters Can Exact Educational Gains From GOP Efforts to Win African-American Political Support As a result of the Columbine tragedy, the middle-class suburban Republican vote has been seriously disaffected by the GOP's position on gun control. It now turns out ...
News and Views: Black Historians Abound at High-Ranking Universities, But Almost Always They Teach Courses in Black History
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: Black Historians Abound at High-Ranking Universities, But Almost Always They Teach Courses in Black History In past issues of JBHE we have chronicled, on an institution-by-institution basis, the huge shortfall in the number of black faculty teaching at America's ...
News and Views: The Progress of Black Student Matriculations at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities
Oct 31, 1999 ... News and Views: The Progress of Black Student Matriculations at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities Again this year The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has conducted a survey of the admissions offices at the nation's highest-ranked national universities and at the ...
Edgar Daniel Nixon 1899-1987
Oct 31, 1999 ... Edgar Daniel Nixon 1899-1987 Edgar Daniel Nixon was one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. In December 1955 Edgar Nixon put up bail for Rosa Parks after she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white man. Nixon had befriended ...