The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education back issues from April 2006:
George Washington Carver 1864-1943
Apr 01, 2006; ... This issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is dedicated to the memory of The quotation at the top of this page is the epitaph on the grave of George Washington Carver, the celebrated educator and research scientist who revitalized American agriculture and created new markets ...
James Baldwin's Views on Education and the Economic Divide Between Whites and Blacks
Apr 01, 2006; ... A search of the JBHE archives finds a 1977 letter from novelist James Baldwin to the editor of JBHE in which Baldwin discusses his views on the economic divide between blacks and whites in the United States. This statement by Baldwin has never been published. James Baldwin is considered ...
Letters
Apr 01, 2006; ... Black Student Graduation Rates at Liberal Arts Colleges: The Tyranny of Small Numbers TO THE EDITOR: I am concerned that the article, "Black Student College Graduation Rates Remain Low, But Modest Progress Begins to Show," in your Winter 2005/2006 issue, misrepresents the data on ...
The Widening Racial Scoring Gap on Standardized Tests for Admission to Graduate School
Apr 01, 2006; ... On all of the standardized tests for admission to graduate and professional schools, the racial scoring gap is large and in many cases wider than the gap between blacks and whites on the ACT and SAT standardized tests for undergraduate admissions. In all cases the gap on these graduate ...
Law Schools Are Under Pressure From U.S. News Rankings and That's Very Bad News for Blacks
Apr 01, 2006; ... When competing law schools use high average LSAT scores of their entering students as a competitive weapon in establishing their academic excellence, black enrollments inevitably drop. Law schools compete fiercely for the best qualified college graduates. And this competition is usually ...
No Progress Over the Past Seven Years in the Number of Black Students or Black Faculty at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Law Schools
Apr 01, 2006; ... At the nation's highest-rated law schools, blacks make up just shy of 8 percent of all students and about 7 percent of all faculty. These levels have remained virtually unchanged since 1999. The study of law has always held special attraction to African Americans. In part this is ...
The False Promise of Basketball as Young Blacks' Best Route Out of the Inner City
Apr 01, 2006; ... For young blacks, a career in basketball is a long shot with odds similar to winning the state lottery jackpot. But the pursuit of higher education is just about the closest thing they have to a sure shot. Surveys have shown that up to one half of all young black basketball players in ...
Black College Endowments Underperform the Funds of Their White Peers
Apr 01, 2006; ... College endowments on the whole experienced an average increase of 9 percent in the July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005 period. The funds of black colleges and universities, which tend to underweight investments in stocks, did not fare as well as a majority of the endowments of predominantly white ...
Alice Carlotta Jackson: She Was the First Black Applicant to the University of Virginia
Apr 01, 2006; ... The racial history of higher education in the state of Virginia may be characterized largely by traditional separate but equal policies and practices. These policies remained unchallenged until 1935 when Alice Carlotta Jackson, a black woman from Richmond, applied to the University of Virginia ...
Chaka Fattah: The Education Congressman
Apr 01, 2006; ... As the result of an innovative education program organized by U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah, as many as 700 minority college students in Pennsylvania will be offered full tuition scholarships to complete their graduate education. George W. Bush calls himself the education president ....
Storer College: It Was Here a Century Ago That the NAACP Took Its First Steps
Apr 01, 2006; ... Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was a historically black educational institution located on the site of John Brown's 1859 raid on a federal armory in an attempt to launch a slave rebellion. In 1906 the campus was the site of a conference which served to organize the ...
50 Years Ago: Autherine Lucy Seeks to Enter the University of Alabama
Apr 01, 2006; ... "Hey, hey, ho, ho, where in the hell did that nigger go?" On February 3, 1956, a young black woman named Autherine Lucy registered at the University of Alabama and went to her first class. That night riots, inspired by white supremacists, broke out on the university campus. The violence ...
A JBHE Report on Political Contributions Made by Faculty and Administrators at the Black Colleges
Apr 01, 2006; ... It is commonly believed that the nation's high-ranking colleges and universities are bastions of liberal ideology. Data on the political contributions of faculty and administrators at these schools tends to confirm this thesis. But at many black colleges and universities, faculty and ...
Black Women Students Far Outnumber Black Men at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Universities
Apr 01, 2006; ... The wide gender gap that prevails at all stages of African-American higher education extends to the student bodies at our nation's highest-ranked universities. But in most cases the gap is smaller than the national average. JBHE has consistently documented the fact that black women hold ...
Ranking Black Scholars by Citation Count in the Google Scholar and Google Books Databases
Apr 01, 2006; ... Ranking black scholars by the number of times their names appear in the nation's press is essentially a popularity contest and not an authoritative measure of an academic's scholarly success. In turn, strict citation analysis of works in scholarly journals tends to discount a scholar's input as ...
No Blacks Among the New Fellows Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Apr 01, 2006; ... Each year the prestigious National Academy of Sciences selects new members 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 is often seen as the pinnacle of a ...
Many Blacks Win Student Elections at the Highest-Ranking and Predominantly White Universities
Apr 01, 2006; ... At the nation's highest-ranked universities African-American students are frequently elected by their predominantly white peers to lead student governments. More surprising yet is the fact that blacks have been more successful in winning student government presidencies at southern schools where ...
Wendell Phillips: The Famed Orator of the Abolitionist Movement
Apr 01, 2006; ... His family wanted him committed to an insane asylum. In 1835 Wendell Phillips, a wealthy Boston attorney, showed no sympathies for the abolitionist movement. But one day Phillips had an epiphany when he attended a rally of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. In the early ...
Large Group of Blacks Inducted Into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Four of the New Black Fellows Are Academics
Apr 01, 2006; ... Established in 1779, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is America's most prestigious honorary society. From the time of its founding, and for at least a century afterwards, no blacks were admitted as fellows. Today, 227 years later, it appears that of the academy's 4,000 fellows, 73, or ...
University of Virginia Takes Further Steps to Open Its Campus to Black and Low-Income Students
Apr 01, 2006; ... Over the years, the University of Virginia has been a leader among the nation's highest-ranked universities in enrolling and graduating African-American students. Now the university is taking further steps to ensure its continued leadership in providing a racially diverse campus. On a ...
Black Studies at Harvard Adds a Solid Core of New Black Faculty
Apr 01, 2006; ... In recent years Harvard University's black studies has suffered a large number of high-profile faculty defections. Henry Louis Gates Jr., outgoing chair of the African and African-American studies department, has accomplished several solid successes in attracting top black faculty to ...
Octavia Butler 1947-2006
Apr 01, 2006; ... "Honey, Negroes can't be writers." Octavia Butler, the award-winning science fiction author, died in late February after a fall and an apparent stroke outside her home in Seattle, Washington. She was 58 years old. Butler was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of a ...
Black Academics: Ebony Finally Sees the Light
Apr 01, 2006; ... In the past, holding just about any public office qualified a politician for inclusion on Ebony magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential African Americans. Black intellectuals and scholars were almost never acknowledged for their influence. Now, the magazine has finally conceded that ...
The Senator Who Gave Us Clarence Thomas
Apr 01, 2006; ... "I fought dirty in a fight without rules." Former GOP senator from Missouri and, later, United Nations ambas(sador John C. Danforth is now leading a political campaign to retake the Republican Party from the religious right. Danforth, an ordained Episcopalian priest, is an advocate of ...
The Ghetto of Negro Scholarship
Apr 01, 2006; ... "An African-American scholar could work in the mainstream of American history rather than be confined exclusively to subjects dealing with African Americans. From the very beginning of my own involvement in the academy, the goal I sought was to be a scholar with credentials as impeccable as I ...
Black Students at America's Most Conservative Colleges and Universities
Apr 01, 2006; ... American colleges offering a conservative curriculum tend to have very small numbers of black students. Three of the 10 most conservative colleges, as rated by the Young America's Foundation, do not accept federal financial aid and therefore are not required to submit enrollment data by ...
The University of Texas Loses Its National Title When It Is Measured By Its Performance in Graduating Black Football Players
Apr 01, 2006; ... The University of Texas was a champion on the football field but the university is anything but a winner when it comes to graduating its black athletes who play football. After its exciting come-from-behind victory in the Rose Bowl on January 4, the University of Texas was crowned ...
The Bleak Educational Prospects for Haiti's Children
Apr 01, 2006; ... Haiti is a nation of 8 million people. Slightly more than 1,000 students from this distressed Caribbean island nation attend colleges and universities in the United States. They are the lucky ones. There is little in the way of educational opportunities for those youths who remain in ...
The Higher Education Credentials of the Most Powerful Black Women in Business
Apr 01, 2006; ... All but one are college graduates. Harvard and Northwestern alumnae are most prevalent on the list. Recently Black Enterprise published its list of the most powerful black women in business. All but one of the African-American women on the Black Enterprise list have a college diploma. A ...
JBHE Completes Its Count of Black Students and Faculty At the Nation's 50 Flagship State Universities
Apr 01, 2006; ... Five years ago JBHE reported on the progress of our nation's flagship state universities in enrolling black students and hiring black faculty. We now revisit the issue and have found a somewhat mixed bag of results in black student enrollments and a generally encouraging trend in black faculty ...
The "Silencing" of Early Black Cadets at West Point
Apr 01, 2006; ... IN THE NINETEENTH century, a black cadet at West Point was generally "silenced" or "cut" from the corps as soon as he arrived, denoting that his classmates shunned him and that professors and cadets from the other classes spoke to him only in the line of duty. African Americans were not hazed or ...
How State Bans on Race-Sensitive Admissions Have Damaged Black Enrollments in Professional Schools
Apr 01, 2006; ... Despite the favorable ruling by the Supreme Court in the Gratter case reaffirming universities' consideration of race in admissions decisions, state bans on race-sensitive admissions continue to have a devastating effect on black opportunities for professional education. THE 2003 SUPREME ...
Black and Blue in New Haven: Memoirs of an African American at Yale in the Late 1960s
Apr 01, 2006; ... Editor's Note: In the turbulent late 1960s, when sex, drugs, and political radicalism were prevalent on college campuses, it was a trying time for a young black man intent on studying classic literature at Yale. IN THE FALL of 1968, my parents drove me from Cleveland to New Haven on a ...
Preservationists Look to Protect a Piece of Civil Rights History
Apr 01, 2006; ... In the summer of 1955, a young black teenager from Chicago named Emmett Till entered the Bryant Grocery & Meat Market in Money, Mississippi, to buy some bubble gum. There, he is said to have whistled at a white woman shopkeeper. A few days later, the mutilated body of the young teen with a ...
Becoming a Doctor Was No Easy Task for a Black Man in the 1950s
Apr 01, 2006; ... Editor's Note: LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. is one of America's leading cancer surgeons. He was the first African-American president of the American College of Surgeons and the first black to head the American Cancer Society. Here Dr. Leffall tells the story of his years in higher education at Florida ...
Notes on a White Woman at a Black College
Apr 01, 2006; ... For one freshman from a virtually all-white town, enrolling in a historically black university has been a lesson in diversity and self-discovery. STEPHANIE KWADER KNOWS she turns some heads on the campus of Bowie State University. As one of the white minority at the 5,500-student ...
Many Black Academics Among Right-Wing Activist's List of the Most Dangerous Professors
Apr 01, 2006; ... Many Black Academics Among Right-Wing Activist's List of the Most Dangerous Professors The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 448 pages, $27.95) MOST INFORMED commentators on higher education agree that the vast majority of faculty ...
How Jim Crow Came to Rule the American South
Apr 01, 2006; ... How Jim Crow Came to Rule the American South Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 268 pages, $27.50) WHEN I WAS a student at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s, I took a course in the Civil War taught by Professor ...
Notable Minority-Related Grants to Institutions of Higher Education
Apr 01, 2006; ... * The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University received a $194,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a project to develop a multimedia teaching tool with the title, "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity." The textbook, CD, and Web site connected with ...
In Memoriam: John Kenneth Galbraith
Apr 01, 2006; ... 1908-2006 The Journal ...
Race Relations on Campus
Apr 01, 2006; ... A national record of racial incidents at the nation's institutions of higher education. Race Relations Database Students, faculty, and administrators are encouraged to send information on campus race-related incidents to: JBHE 200 West 57th Street, 15th ...
Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions of African Americans in Higher Education
Apr 01, 2006; ... Curtis W. Bigelow was promoted to the position of assistant vice chancellor for police and public safety at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. A former North Carolina state trooper, Bigelow has been employed at the university for 13 years. Janice G. Brewington was ...
Scholarly Research on Blacks in Higher Education
Apr 01, 2006; ... The Economic Return From Education Is Now Very Similar for Blacks and Whites "Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?" by Lisa Barrow of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Cecilia Elena Rouse of Princeton University. This paper was published in the May 2005 issue of ...
Book Note: Painting Black History
Apr 01, 2006; ... In the 1972 painting "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima," artist Betye Saar portrays the popular stereotypical image of a black woman domestic servant. But in the turbulent Black Power era of the early 1970s, Aunt Jemima, as shown in the painting portrayed here, is also toting a rifle. This ...
Notable Honors and Awards
Apr 01, 2006; ... Alonzo Ashley, the retired employee relations manager at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, received the university's Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. Ashley had established a summer research program for black and other minority students ...
Affirmative Action Ban Continues to Inflict Severe Damage on Black Higher Educational Opportunities in California
Apr 01, 2006; ... Even though there was a renewed effort to increase outreach programs to prospective black students, the most selective campuses of the University of California continue to have small numbers of incoming African-American students. Despite the Supreme Court's Grutter ruling in 2003, public ...