The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education back issues from October 2007:
Oliver White Hill 1907-2007
Oct 01, 2007; ... This issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is dedicated to the memory of Oliver White Hill 1907-2007 In the last century Oliver W. Hill was one of the nation's foremost civil rights attorneys. Most remember his important contributions as a member of the legal ...
Black Scholar Declares That the Display of a Hangman's Noose Is a Mere Prank
Oct 01, 2007; ... In June 2006 six black public school students in Jena, Louisiana, sat under a tree that was traditionally a gathering place for white students. In response, white students hung a noose from the tree. Subsequently, John McWhorter, an African-American scholar who is a senior fellow at the ...
"Golly Gee, Doze Black Peoples Sure Be Sivilized"
Oct 01, 2007; ... In September, Bill O'Reilly, the conservative radio and television talk-show host, sat down to lunch with Al Sharpton at Harlem's famous soul food restaurant, Sylvia's. Speaking on his radio program the next day, O'Reilly remarked: "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no ...
Fifty Years Ago: The Little Rock Nine Integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Oct 01, 2007; ... A new order in America is founded on the sacrifice of a daughter. Fifty years ago, on September 4, 1957, millions of Americans viewed on television startling images of Elizabeth Eckford, a black girl in Little Rock, Arkansas. Elizabeth Eckford was integrating Little Rock, Arkansas' white ...
The Decline in Black Enrollments at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Law Schools
Oct 01, 2007; ... Over the past decade, law school enrollments of black students nationwide have declined slightly. This downward trend also prevails at the nation's highest-ranked law schools. Over the 10-year period, black enrollments have dropped at 10 of the nation's 15 highest-ranked law schools. The ...
Three Blacks Named Goldwater Scholars
Oct 01, 2007; ... Barry Goldwater, the famed conservative U.S. senator from Arizona and 1964 GOP presidential nominee, was a dedicated promoter of scientific and engineering research. In 1986, when Congress created a new scholarship program to encourage graduate study in mathematics, science, and ...
White Coats, White Faces: Checking the Pulse of Blacks in Medical School Admissions
Oct 01, 2007; ... Over the past five years there has been a 16 percent increase in the number of blacks who applied to U.S. medical schools. But despite a pressing need for more black physicians, both the number of black students accepted to medical school and the number who enrolled have dropped over the past ...
The Crosstown Rival That Bested Georgetown University in First Enrolling Black Students
Oct 01, 2007; ... In 1950 Washington, D.C., was a southern city that adhered to the customs of Jim Crow segregation. At that time no African American had ever earned a bachelor's or graduate degree from Georgetown University, the highly regarded Jesuit institution of higher learning in Washington, ...
"Mislike Me Not for My Complexion"
Oct 01, 2007; ... Recently, the Dlinois Institute of Technology searched its records to determine the first graduate of its chemical engineering program. It came as a major surprise that its first graduate - Charles Warner Pierce - was an African American. It is believed he was the first African American to have ...
Predominantly White College in Kentucky Plans to Adopt a Black College That Closed in 1988
Oct 01, 2007; ... Georgetown College, a predominantly white college in Kentucky, proposes to adopt Bishop College, a historically black educational institution that closed in 1988. Under the adoption plan Bishop College alumni would become alumni of Georgetown College. While many Baptist religious leaders ...
Comparing the Educational Attainment of the Parents of Black and White Children in the United States
Oct 01, 2007; ... Probably the best indicator of the likelihood that a child will go to college is whether one or both of his or her parents attended college. In the percentage of parents who hold a college degree, blacks trail whites by a large margin. Educational Attainment of Black and White ...
Harvard President Drew Faust Pledges a Major Increase in the Number of Black Faculty
Oct 01, 2007; ... Harvard President Drew Faust recently promised a major increase in the number of black faculty at Harvard. Her ambitious plan is a breath of fresh air after the five-year presidency of Lawrence Summers, who had little interest in bringing greater racial diversity to Harvard. At Harvard, ...
A Call for a New Civil Rights Movement
Oct 01, 2007; ... "On June 28, 2007, the United States Supreme Court rendered Brown v. Board of Education a dead letter. They barred any policy by which local communities could voluntarily integrate their public schools. "The Supreme Court's absurd, dishonest decision flies in the face of democratic ...
The First Black Graduate of Smith College
Oct 01, 2007; ... In 1900 Otelia Cromwell of Washington, D.C., became the first African American to earn a college degree at Smith College, the well-known liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. A native of Washington, D.C., Cromwell originally enrolled in the historically black Miner ...
Ranking the Nation's Leading Liberal Arts Colleges on Their Levels of Black Faculty
Oct 01, 2007; ... Many of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges are located in rural areas of states in the Northeast or Midwest. Yet many of these colleges have been successful in attracting significant numbers of black faculty. Nationwide, blacks make up 5.3 percent of all full-time faculty at ...
New York University's Legendary Black Fencer
Oct 01, 2007; ... The vast majority of African-American college athletes are involved in football, basketball, or track and field. But there are some notable exceptions. One of the most unique black athletes in the history of college sports is Mika'il Sankofa. Sankofa, a native of Long Island, New York, ...
New Report Shows Blacks Are Almost Invisible on the Science Faculties at Major Research Universities
Oct 01, 2007; ... Blacks are making slow progress in overall faculty ranks at American colleges and universities. But they still have almost no presence on the science faculties at universities engaged in the most scientific research. Nationwide, blacks make up 5.3 percent of the total full-time faculty ...
New Evidence Documents That Large Numbers of Black Students Are Unprepared For College
Oct 01, 2007; ... New statistics from the U.S. Department of Education show a persisting and serious racial gap in academic preparedness for a college-level curriculum. Any effort to reduce the black-white gap in college graduation rates will have to successfully address these differences. New data from ...
Unemployment Rates Among College-Enrolled Black and White Students
Oct 01, 2007; ... Blacks who have completed college seem to buck the historical 2-to-1 racial unemployment gap. But for students who are working during their college years, the traditional racial gap remains firm. (ProQuest: ... denotes text stops here in original.) New data from the Bureau of ...
When the Publication of Unfavorable Racial Data Gives Comfort to America's White Supremacists
Oct 01, 2007; ... Is bad news better left unsaid, or should JBHE continue to publish unfavorable data that feeds racism in the United States? Earlier this year JBHE published a lengthy list of dozens of scientific fields in which 2,100 Ph.D.s were awarded in 2006. There were no African Americans who won ...
The Black Slave Who Won a College Degree
Oct 01, 2007; ... David Kearney McDonogh was one of only 40 African Americans to earn a college degree before the Civil War. But McDonogh was unique. He was a black slave. In past issues of JBHE we have published many accounts of early black graduates of our nation's most prestigious colleges and ...
A Stealth Effort Under Way to Keep the White House in the Hands of the GOP: Serious Harms for African-American Higher Education
Oct 01, 2007; ... In the minds of many, a seemingly minor proposed public referendum in California could change the political direction of the United States for more than a generation. If passed, the referendum could have a huge impact on the educational opportunities of African Americans. Most African ...
University of Chicago Honors a Distinguished African-American Graduate
Oct 01, 2007; ... A portrait and a plaque honoring J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. were unveiled this past March in the Eckhart Hall Tea Room on the campus of the University of Chicago. Wilkins was the son of J. Ernest Wilkins Sr., who served as assistant secretary of labor during the Eisenhower administration. At ...
Four African Americans Awarded Truman Scholarships
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Truman scholarship program awards up to 80 scholarships each year to support graduate work in an academic field relating to public service. Four black students are among this year's 65 Truman scholarship winners. The Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation, established by an act of ...
African Americans in the Western States Are More Likely Than Other Black Americans to Be College Educated
Oct 01, 2007; ... Nationwide, about 18.5 percent of all adult African Americans hold a college degree. In the West the figure is about 33 percent higher. Nationwide, slightly more than 18 percent of all adult blacks over the age of 25 hold a four-year college degree. For whites, the figure is 31 percent, ...
Inspiring Black Youth Through Travel
Oct 01, 2007; ... In 1983 Jacqueline Rushing, a young African-American mother with a master's degree in education from San Francisco University, took a job teaching at a Department of Defense school in Germany. Over the next 11 years, she and her young daughter enjoyed travel and educational experiences ...
Blacks Are Scarce, But Still Welcome, at the Conservative Christian Patrick Henry College
Oct 01, 2007; ... Patrick Henry College aspires to be the most academically prestigious of the Christian colleges. While conservative to its core, the college does not have the racist history of other Christian schools such as Bob Jones University. But only 1.2 percent of Patrick Henry College students are black ...
Less "HOPE" for Black Higher Education in Georgia
Oct 01, 2007; ... Since inception in 1993, blacks in Georgia have always been denied a fair share of HOPE scholarship funds. Now there are new eligibility requirements which will make it even tougher for many college-bound blacks to qualify for HOPE awards. According to the latest data from the National ...
Campus Free Speech - Supreme Court Upholds a Public School Ban on Student Speech: Now What About a Ban on Racial Slurs Against Blacks?
Oct 01, 2007; ... In 2002, Joseph Frederick, then a high school student in Juneau, Alaska, displayed in school a banner which read, "Bong Hits 4 Jesus." The principal of the school tore down the banner and suspended Frederick from school. Frederick filed suit claiming that his First Amendment rights of free ...
CUNY's First Black Graduate Finally Obtained Work as a Janitor
Oct 01, 2007; ... The City University of New York has produced many distinguished black graduates including A. Philip Randolph, Colin Powell, and Walter Mosley. But in June 1884 William Hallett Greene became the first African American to graduate from the City University of New York. Greene, who was five foot ...
The Serious and Persisting Racial Gaps in Income, Wealth, and Poverty Rates Are Major Barriers to Better Education Opportunities for African Americans
Oct 01, 2007; ... The black-white family income and poverty gaps have remained virtually unchanged since the civil rights era of the 1960s. While there are other factors holding blacks back, these very large differences in income and wealth puts a huge drag on the abilities of blacks to make gains in higher ...
The Widening Racial Gap in ACT College Admission Test Scores
Oct 01, 2007; ... In 2007 the mean score on the American College Testing Program's ACT college admission test increased for whites, Hispanics, and Asians. But the mean score for blacks declined. In states along the East and West coasts of the United States, the SAT test, developed by the Educational ...
New Admissions Rules at the City University of New York Will Further Curtail Black Student Enrollments at CUNY's Four-Year Colleges
Oct 01, 2007; ... Over the past decade, black enrollments at the most prestigious CUNY campuses have declined significantly. Tighter admissions requirements explain the decline. Now, further restrictions will curtail black student admissions to CUNY, with particular damage to black enrollments at the university's ...
Princeton's Black Studies Center Hits the Ground Running
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, established last year, has made tremendous strides in just a short time. Under the direction of Valerie Smith, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, the center is quickly becoming a black studies powerhouse. This past October the ...
Vital Signs
Oct 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 ...
Four Blacks Win MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards
Oct 01, 2007; ... Over the past 26 years, 87 African-American scholars, authors, and performing artists have been awarded more than $30.5 million in MacArthur grants. This year two of the four black winners of MacArthur awards hold faculty posts at major universities. The winners of MacArthur Foundation ...
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education's Black-White Higher Education Equality Index
Oct 01, 2007; ... 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 associations, our internal surveys, and other sources, each ...
Vital Signs: Statistics That Measure the State of Racial Inequality
Oct 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 ...
Despite Surging Endowments, High-Ranking Universities and Colleges Show Disappointing Results in Enrolling Low-Income Students
Oct 01, 2007; ... In recent years, the endowments of the nation's most prestigious colleges and universities have soared. Many of these institutions are committing substantial funds in efforts to enroll more students from low-income families. Results have been disappointing over the long and short terms. The ...
African Americans Making Solid Gains in Bachelor's and Advanced Degrees Black Women Far Out Ahead
Oct 01, 2007; ... From bachelor's degrees to doctorates, blacks have made solid progress in degree attainments across the board. In 2005 blacks earned their highest number of bachelor's degrees in history, more than double the number of degrees they earned in 1990. Over the past 20 years, the number of blacks ...
The Persisting Racial Scoring Gap on the SAT College Admission Test
Oct 01, 2007; ... In 2007 mean black scores on the SAT college admission test dropped slightly. But for the second year in a row there was a very slight narrowing of the black-white scoring gap. Yet today the racial gap in SAT scores remains larger than it was 20 years ago. IN 2007 AVERAGE SCORES on the ...
The Spiritual Scholar: W.E.B. Du Bois
Oct 01, 2007; ... Editor's Note: By the end of his life W.E.B. Du Bois had embraced atheistic Marxism and Communism. But Du Bois stayed connected to religion in various ways. Du Bois wrote dozens of prayers for his students at Atlanta University. He was a regular conversation partner for ministers and religious ...
The Nobel Laureate Who Proclaimed the Genetic Inferiority of the Black Race
Oct 01, 2007; ... A lecture by molecular biologist James D. Watson was canceled after he voiced his theory of a genetic basis for racial inferiority to a British newspaper. Now he has been forced to resign from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the research institution he served for 40 years. In 1956 the ...
The State of Black Student First-Year Enrollments at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities
Oct 01, 2007; ... For the fifteenth consecutive year, JBHE publishes its survey of the percentages of black first-year students at the nation's highest-ranked universities and liberal arts colleges. This year, Columbia University and the University of Virginia have tied in the statistical ranking for ...
Learning From the Urban Unrest of the Past
Oct 01, 2007; ... Learning From the Urban Unrest of the Past Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles by Janet L. Abu-Lughod (New York: Oxford University Press, 344 pages, $35.00) A leading urbanologist provides a highly detailed and carefully researched study of six American race ...
Clarence Thomas' Clouded Memory
Oct 01, 2007; ... Clarence Thomas' Clouded Memory My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas (New York: HarperCollins, 304 pages, $26.95) SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Clarence Thomas has written a new autobiography detailing his life story. The book offers a lengthy account of his growing up poor in ...
Notable Honors and Awards
Oct 01, 2007; ... Lee D. Baker, an associate professor of cultural anthropology and African and African-American studies at Duke University, received the 2007 Richard K. Lublin Award from Trinity College at Duke University. Gladys Smiley Bell, Peabody librarian at Hampton University in Virginia, received ...
Black Digest of Literature
Oct 01, 2007; ... Recent Books by African Americans or About the African-American Experience * Alkyer, Frank, ed., The Miles Davis Reader (Hal Leonard) * Asante, Molefi Kete, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony (Routledge) * Bales, Kevin, Ending Slavery: How We Free ...
Scholarly Research on the Higher Education of African Americans
Oct 01, 2007; ... In Academic Research African-American College Students Give False Information on Their Standardized Test Scores "The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? African-American Students and University Research Participation" was authored by a team of researchers at Indiana State University ...
Race Relations on Campus
Oct 01, 2007; ... A record of racial incidents on college and university campuses Race Relations Database Students, faculty, and administrators are encouraged to send information on campus race-related incidents to: JBHE 200 West 57th Street, 15th Floor New York, NY ...
Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions of African Americans in Higher Education
Oct 01, 2007; ... Olabaniji Abanishe was named head football coach at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He was the offensive coordinator for the football team at Langston University. Derrick Alridge was named director of the Institute for African-American Studies in the Franklin College of Arts and ...
Notable Minority-Related Grants to Institutions of Higher Education
Oct 01, 2007; ... * Alabama State University, the historically black educational institution in Montgomery, received a $4.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will be used to establish a nanobiotechnology research center at the university. * Arkansas Baptist College, the ...
Scholarly Papers
Oct 01, 2007; ... Notable Articles and Papers by African Americans or About the African-American Experience * Abell, J.E. et al., "Age and Race Impact the Association Between BMI and CVD Mortality in Women," Public Health Reports, July/August 2007. * Adams-Campbell, L.L. et al., "Diagnostic ...