The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education back issues from April 2007:
39 Years Ago: Robert F. Kennedy's Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 196
Apr 01, 2007; ... Editor's Note: On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy, campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, arrived in Indianapolis for a political rally in an inner-city black neighborhood. On the way to Indianapolis, Kennedy was informed of Dr. King's murder. Advised to ...
James McCune Smith 1813-1865
Apr 01, 2007; ... This issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is dedicated to the memory of The first African American to earn a medical degree was James McCune Smith. He was a "Renaissance man" of the antebellum period. Smith was a writer, lecturer, classicist, editor, political activist, ...
Higher Education Is the Major Force in Closing the Black-White Income Gap
Apr 01, 2007; ... New statistics from the Census Bureau confirm the powerful economic advantage that accrues to African Americans who hold a four-year college degree. The most current figures, for the year 2004, show that blacks with a college diploma now have a median income that is 90 percent of the median ...
A Nineteenth-Century Black Student At the University of Georgia
Apr 01, 2007; ... Established in 1785, the University of Georgia at Athens is the oldest state-chartered university in the United States. For the first 176 years of its history the university did not admit a single black student. In 1960 two African-American teenagers, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne ...
Reading the Tea Leaves: Can We Count on Drew Faust to Be a Good Friend of Black Higher Education?
Apr 01, 2007; ... This July, Harvard will install its first woman president. Drew Gilpin Faust is a widely admired scholar and considered a skillful consensus builder as an administrator. But blacks at Harvard and throughout the academic community wonder if she will press for more racially inclusive ...
Spelman Leads the Black Colleges in Endowment Fund Growth
Apr 01, 2007; ... College endowments on the whole experienced an average increase of nearly 11 percent in the July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006 period. Traditionally, the endowment funds of black colleges and universities tend to lag the performance of their predominantly white peers. But this year several of the ...
The Man Who Barred James Meredith From the Ole Miss Campus
Apr 01, 2007; ... Mississippi governor Paul Johnson won the hearts of voters in Mississippi when he consistently referred to the NAACP as "Niggers, Alligators, Apes, Coons, and Possums." Paul Burney Johnson Jr. was elected governor of Mississippi in 1963. In the heyday of white Mississippians' fight to ...
It's No Picnic for Black Faculty at MIT
Apr 01, 2007; ... Blacks are about 3 percent of the total faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but most of the African-American scholars at MIT are not teaching in the sciences. Some of the black faculty who do teach in the science disciplines at MIT believe that they are being held back by ...
The Law School Admission Council Has a New CEO Who Is Black: Slight Hope for New Policies in Testing Fairness
Apr 01, 2007; ... Daniel Bemstine, the president of Portland State University, has been named CEO of the Law School Admission Council, the organization that administers the Law School Admission Test. Many observers who view the test as culturally, if not racially, biased wait to see if the Bemstine appointment ...
The Struggle for the Heart and Soul of the NAACP
Apr 01, 2007; ... This past March, Bruce S. Gordon resigned as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Gordon's departure after only 19 months in office exposed a major ideological rift within the NAACP and renewed a debate about ...
Once Again, Clarence Thomas Denies That He Benefited From Affirmative Action
Apr 01, 2007; ... Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been called many things: "a traitor to his race," "a lawn jockey for the far right, " and "afoot-shuffling, head-scratching character from Amos 'n' Andy. " These charges are clearly excessive if not wrong, yet there is one common statement about him that ...
Ranking the Nation's Black Studies Doctoral Programs
Apr 01, 2007; ... In a new analysis of Ph.D. programs, the highest black studies award, as expected, went to the doctoral program at Harvard University. Many of the other rankings appear to be highly suspect. Since 1983 the National Research Council, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, has ...
How the Black Colleges Marketed Themselves 80 Years Ago
Apr 01, 2007; ... JBHE recently acquired a copy of the 1927 edition of Who's Who in Colored America. This reference work contains the biographies of hundreds of the nation's most prominent African Americans of that time. To offset the publication costs of this large volume, advertisements were solicited, ...
The First African-American Olympic Champion Was a Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania
Apr 01, 2007; ... Most African Americans and most Americans of all races are familiar with Olympic champions Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, and Wilma Rudolph. But few Americans of any race know that the first African American to win an Olympic Gold Medal was John Baxter Taylor Jr., a graduate of the School of ...
Mixed Results in Black Student Recruitment at the Select Campuses of the University of California
Apr 01, 2007; ... Black Scholar at the University of Michigan Wins Prestigious Hiett Prize in the Humanities Tiya Alicia Miles, an assistant professor of American culture, Afro-American and African studies, and Native American studies at the University of Michigan, was awarded the Hiett Prize in the ...
A Check-Up of Black Enrollments at American Medical Schools
Apr 01, 2007; ... There is a severe shortage of medical practitioners in many predominantly inner-city black neighborhoods as well as in rural areas of the South. Over the past decade there also has been a decline in blacks enrolling and graduating from medical school. In recent years there has been only a slight ...
Katrina Update: Black Colleges in New Orleans on the Comeback Trail
Apr 01, 2007; ... It has been more than a year and a half since Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans. The three historically black universities in the city have mounted a massive effort to get back on their feet. All of the universities are operating but it will be many years, if ever, before ...
Movin' On Up: The Mobility Rates of College-Educated African Americans
Apr 01, 2007; ... In the 2000 to 2005 period blacks in the United States were more likely than whites to change their residence. Blacks with low levels of education were significantly more likely to move than similarly educated whites. But as blacks and whites move up the educational ladder, the racial gap in ...
University of Arkansas Shifts To Need-Based Financial Aid
Apr 01, 2007; ... New financial aid effort is likely to increase black enrollments at the flagship state university. According to the National Association of State Student Grant & Aid Programs, in 2005, 73 percent of all financial aid for college students awarded by state governments nationwide was ...
The Forgotten Genius of Percy Julian
Apr 01, 2007; ... Millions of people worldwide use synthetic cortisone to relieve pain from rheumatoid arthritis. Yet few who benefit from this important drug know that the chemical process that relieves their suffering was discovered by a black man, Percy Lavon Julian. Julian was recently the subject of a PBS ...
Black Colleges and Universities Embrace Distance Education
Apr 01, 2007; ... Today 40 black colleges and universities are offering distance education programs. In 2006 only 29 HBCUs had distance education offerings. Distance education, the process of learning through either videoconferencing or the interactive use of the World Wide Web, has become a major force ...
Freshmen at Black Colleges Show Sharp Decline in Drinking Alcohol and Smoking Cigarettes
Apr 01, 2007; ... New data from UCLA shows thai first-year students at the black colleges are more likely than in the recent past to identify themselves as political conservatives. These students are also less likely to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes than the students who preceded them at these colleges. Also, ...
The First Black Graduates at the University of Texas
Apr 01, 2007; ... Heman Sweatt is remembered as the first black student to integrate the University of Texas when he enrolled in the law school in 1950. Sweatt had sued the university after it denied him admission in 1946. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ordered that he be admitted. But Sweatt, who was ...
It Takes a College Degree to Break the Traditional 2-to-1 Black-White Unemployment Gap
Apr 01, 2007; ... For the past half century or more, the nationwide unemployment rate for blacks has been about twice the rate for whites. But Labor Department statistics show that the racial unemployment gap is much lower for blacks and whites with a four-year college degree. It has been clear for many ...
Center for Individual Rights Wins Another Victory Against Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Center for Individual Rights has succeeded in dealing another defeat to the proponents of affirmative action in higher education. This time an important summer internship program earmarked for black and minority students at colleges and universities throughout the United States will now be ...
Molecular Biologist at the University of Chicago Explores Genetic Links to Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality
Apr 01, 2007; ... Racial disparities in breast cancer survival rates are well documented. Now a black woman who is a molecular biologist at the University of Chicago is conducting research to discover if the stresses of African-American life, genetic factors, or both, contribute to the differences between black ...
Surprise! Among College Graduates, Blacks Are More Likely Than Whites to Enroll in Graduate Education
Apr 01, 2007; ... Blacks who achieve a bachelor's degree are more likely than similarly educated whites to enroll in graduate education programs. But for those who do enroll, whites are still more likely to persist and earn a graduate degree. In 2005 African Americans earned 8.9 percent of all the ...
There Are Recent Increases in White Enrollments at Black Colleges, But the Long-Term Trend Is Down
Apr 01, 2007; ... Over the 2000-2005 period many state-operated historically black colleges and universities realized an increase in their enrollments of white students. But the percentage of whites at a majority of these institutions remains below, and in some instances significantly below, the level that ...
Foreign-Born Black Men in The United States Hold a Four-Year College Degree Close to the Percentage of White Americans
Apr 01, 2007; ... The high level of educational attainments of foreign-born black adults In the United States puts a solid nail in the coffin of scientific racism which assigns inferior intelligence to black people. The evidence is clear that social and economic factors provide the main reasons for highly ...
Solid Progress of Blacks in Graduate Degree Attainments
Apr 01, 2007; ... Over the past year blacks have made significant progress in master's and professional degree attainments. Over the past two decades the gains have been nothing short of spectacular. In the last issue of JBHE, we reported that the number of blacks earning bachelor's degrees in 2005 ...
The Just Short of Catastrophic Failure Rate of Black Students at California Community Colleges
Apr 01, 2007; ... Anew report from the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy based at California State University in Sacramento finds that the vast majority of black students, who enter community college in California seeking a degree* are not completing their course of study. The report ...
Vital Signs
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Statistics That Describe the Present and Suggest the Future of African Americans in Higher Education Each issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education presents a statistical record of the progress of African Americans in institutions of higher education in the United States. A ...
JBHE's Annual Citation Rankings of Black Scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Apr 01, 2007; ... For the thirteenth consecutive year, JBHE publishes its citation rankings of black scholars in the social sciences. Once again, as has been the case in each of our previous surveys, the black scholar with the highest citation count in social science journals is Harvard's University Professor ...
Comparing Black and White College Enrollment Rates of the High School Class of 2005
Apr 01, 2007; ... No surprise, whites who graduated from high school in 2005 were far more likely than their black peers to enroll in college. Also, as expected, the blacks who did enroll in higher education were far more likely than whites to enroll at two-year community colleges. According to the latest ...
Black-White Higher Education Equality Index
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education's In this issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education we continue to present our Black-White Higher Education Equality Index. Using a wide variety of available statistics from the government, testing organizations, professional ...
Older African Americans Are Flocking to College
Apr 01, 2007; ... In the traditional college years - the late teens and early twenties - whites are more likely than blacks to be enrolled in college. But for people over the age of 25, blacks are more likely than whites to be enrolled in higher education. Whether the student is white or black, the common ...
Racial Pioneer at the University of Illinois Has Turned Around Basketball's Most Storied Franchise
Apr 01, 2007; ... Mannie Jackson, one of the first two black basketball players at the University of Illinois, is now a successful entrepreneur who has revitalized the Harlem Globetrotters. In 1927 the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team was founded. For the next quarter century the nation's best ...
States That Are Most Successful in Delivering a College Education to African Americans
Apr 01, 2007; ... New data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census shows that nationwide nearly 4 million African Americans now hold a four-year college degree. In 2005, 17.6 percent of all African-American adults over the age of 25 had a four-year college degree. Since 1990 the percentage of African-American adults ...
Vital Signs: Statistics That Measure the State of Racial Inequality
Apr 01, 2007; ... In each issue, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education collects statistics bearing on the relative positions of blacks and whites in American society. Some of these statistics are interesting but not particularly important whereas others are highly relevant and critical to the overall ...
A Decade Ago This Would Have Been Pure Fantasy: A Black Man Is Atop the Earnings Pyramid on Wall Street
Apr 01, 2007; ... In an industry where blacks were excluded until a very short time ago, Harvard Business School graduate E. Stanley O'Neal is now leading one of the world's largest investment firms and earning compensation even an NBA superstar could only dream of. People have been trading securities on ...
The Black College Presidents Who Tried to Thwart the Racial Integration of Higher Education
Apr 01, 2007; ... Editor's Note: As the U.S. Supreme Court began to whittle away at the nation's racially segregated systems of higher education, the presidents of several black colleges and universities feared that their positions would be eliminated. As a result, they mounted an all-out effort to protect their ...
Black Faculty in Higher Education: Still Only a Drop in the Bucket
Apr 01, 2007; ... JBHE surveyed the nation s highest-ranked research universities, the most selective liberal arts colleges, and the 50 flagship state universities to determine their levels of black faculty. Overall, the liberal arts colleges have the most racially diverse faculties. Mount Holyoke College had the ...
Sojourner Truth's Plan for the Freed Slaves: Teach 'em to Read, Teach 'em to Work, Send 'em Out West
Apr 01, 2007; ... Editor's Note: Born a slave in upstate New York in 1797, Isabella Baumfree was once sold for $100 and some sheep. When New York State abolished slavery in 1827, Baumfree moved to New York City and changed her name to Sojoumer Truth. When her biography was published in 1850, she became one of the ...
Columbia University's Franz Boas: He Led the Undoing of Scientific Racism
Apr 01, 2007; ... Editor's Note: Two hundred fifty years ago scholars in the West divided mankind into two categories. On the one hand there was the black man who was said to be subhuman and of lower intelligence and therefore a natural slave. Then there was the white man who uniquely possessed the glorious ...
Black Studies at the Crossroads: A Discussion With Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Apr 01, 2007; ... HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr. is the Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. Upon appointing Professor Gates to this position, interim Harvard president Derek Bok said that, since coming to Cambridge in ...
A Gallery of Notable Black Scholars of the Early Twentieth Century
Apr 01, 2007; ... Today, just over 100,000 African Americans hold a doctoral degree. Eighty years ago in 1927, the number of African Americans who had earned a Ph.D. probably numbered in the few hundreds at best. In those days, black students were almost always barred from most of the nation's large ...
Black Slurs on Jews
Apr 01, 2007; ... Black Slurs on Jews Dictionary of Antisemitism: From the Earliest Times to the Present by Robert Michael and Philip Rosen (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 489 pages, $50.00) In the civil rights struggles of the mid-twentieth century, Jews and African Americans were partners in the fight ...
Troubled Waters: The Racial History of Swimming in the United States
Apr 01, 2007; ... Troubled Waters: The Racial History of Swimming in the United States Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America by Jeff Wiltse (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 276 pages, $29.95) NOWHERE, IN THE Jim Crow era, were the battle lines of the civil rights ...
Scholarly Research on the Higher Education of African Americans
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Continuing Importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities to African-American Higher Education "The Impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities on the Academic Success of African-American Students" by Mikyong Minsun Kim, associate professor of higher education ...
Black Enrollments in Advanced Placement Programs: The News Is Mixed
Apr 01, 2007; ... The number of blacks taking academically challenging Advanced Placement courses in high school has surged in recent years. The bad news is that the racial scoring gap on Advanced Placement tests continues to be large and in fact has increased in recent years. OVER THE PAST 20 years there ...
Race Relations on Campus
Apr 01, 2007; ... A record of racial incidents on college and university campuses * A party where white students dressed in costume to denigrate blacks was held over the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend at Cleineon University in South Carolina. At least one student wore blackface. Some white female ...
Scholarly Papers
Apr 01, 2007; ... Notable Articles and Papers by African Americans or About the African-American Experience * Aalbers, M.B.. "Place-Based and Race-Based Exclusion From Mortgage Loans: Evidence From Three Cities in the Netherlands," Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2007. * Abidoye, O. et ...
Notable Minority-Related Grants to Institutions of Higher Education
Apr 01, 2007; ... * The Atlanta University Center received a $1 million grant from Bank of America to upgrade the library's archives and special collections section. The money will be used to improve the facility which will house the Martin Luther King Jr. papers. The center's library serves four historically ...
Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions of African Americans in Higher Education
Apr 01, 2007; ... Betty Kelly Austin was named director of athletics at Alabama A&M University. A graduate of the university, Austin is an assistant professor of health, physical education, and recreation as well as the head coach of the women's volleyball team. Carey Bailey, a graduate of the ...
Black Digest of Literature
Apr 01, 2007; ... Recent Books by African Americans or About the African-American Experience * Adame, Jessica, Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation (University of North Carolina Press) * Awkward, Michael, Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the ...
Notable Honors and Awards
Apr 01, 2007; ... Andrew Aheart, an 85-year-old professor of mathematics at West Virginia State University, will be given an honorary degree commemorating his 58 years on the university's faculty. The trustees of the university voted unanimously to waive a rule which states that no faculty member can receive an ...