The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education back issues from October 2008:
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 ...
Social Psychology Experiment Reveals White College Students' Reluctance to Discuss Issues of Race
Oct 01, 2008; ... Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard Business School conducted a series of social psychology experiments to examine if whites avoid talking about race so that they will not be perceived as racist. The results were published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and ...
Xavier University Produces Twice the Number of Bachelor's Degrees in Physics Than Any Other Black College or University
Oct 01, 2008; ... The American Institute of Physics (AIP) reports that more than 5,300 students earned bachelor's degrees in physics in 2006, the latest year for which data is available. The number of students earning bachelor's degrees in physics has increased in each of the past seven years. African Americans ...
Are Black Law School Students Stigmatized by Affirmative Action?
Oct 01, 2008; ... Opponents of race-sensitive affirmative action admissions programs make the argument that black students who are admitted to college or graduate schools that practice affirmative action are stigmatized with a badge of inferiority. Clarence Thomas and other black conservatives often use the ...
Bush Education Department Aims to Pressure Colleges and Universities to Cut Back Race-Sensitive Admissions
Oct 01, 2008; ... More than five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its last decision regarding race-based affirmative action in admissions to institutions of higher education. This fall the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education issued new guidelines to colleges and universities ...
Black-White Differences in Ph.D. Completion Rates
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Council of Graduate Schools recently published data on the Ph.D. completion rates of students at a large number of research universities in the United States. The study examined students who entered Ph.D. programs in the years 1992 to 1995 to see how many had actually earned their doctorate ...
Florida's Merit-Based CoUege Scholarships Go Mostly to Whites
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 1997 the Florida Legislature created the Rorida Bright Futures Scholarship Program. This Florida lottery-funded scholarship rewards students for their academic achieve- ments during high school by providing funding for them that is equal to full tuition at stateoperated colleges and ...
Report Finds That Black Women Are More Likely Than Black Men, White Men, or White Women to Leave Tenure-Track Positions
Oct 01, 2008; ... A recent report published by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education finds that black women in the academic world are more likely to leave tenure-track positions - either voluntarily or involuntarily - than black men and more than men and women of otiier ethnic groups ....
New Study Finds That African-American College Students Have the Lowest Rate of Cigarette Smoking
Oct 01, 2008; ... A new report from the American Lung Association finds that 19.1 percent of American college students smoke cigarettes. This is the lowest level since 1980. In 1999 more than 30 percent of all college students smoked cigarettes. Smokers were defined as anyone who had at least one cigarette in the ...
Refuting the False Theory That a Ban on Affirmative Action Would Increase the Number of Black Lawyers
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 2004 Richard H. Sander, a professor of law at UCLA, penned a highly controversial article that appeared in the Stanford Law Review. Sander presented data which he claimed showed that, because of affirmative action, black students were being admitted to high-ranked law schools where they were ...
Black Colleges and Universities Are Graduating an Increasing Share of African Americans Who Earn Ph.D.s in Mathematics and Science
Oct 01, 2008; ... The nation's historically black colleges and universities produce about one of every six African-American stu- dents who earn a bachelor's degree in the United States. Thirty years ago, black colleges produced about a third of all African Americans who earned bachelor's degrees. This decline is ...
Spelman Tops U.S. News' Rankings of Black Colleges
Oct 01, 2008; ... For the second straight year U.S. News & World Report has included a separate ranking of the nation's historically black colleges and universities in its annual survey of "America's Best Colleges." To rank the black colleges U.S. News used a formula that included, among other factors, a peer ...
Black Enrollments on the Rise at Graduate Schools of Theology
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, headquartered in Pittsburgh, represents 254 member institutions. These graduate schools of theology include Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox institutions. The association reports that in the 2007-08 academic ...
Race-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions Appears to Be Declining
Oct 01, 2008; ... There have been many studies examining the effect of bans on race-sensitive admissions in California, Florida, Texas, and Washington State. But there has been scant scholarly research on the extent of race-based affirmative action in higher education. Nor have there been studies as to whether ...
Vital Signs
Oct 01, 2008; ... 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 ...
Black-White Higher Education Equality Index
Oct 01, 2008; ... 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, 2008; ... 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 ...
The Racial Gap in Graduation Rates Between Black and White Male High School Students
Oct 01, 2008; ... In Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and North Dakota, black males graduate from high school at a higher rate than white males. In all other states, the black high school male graduation rate is lower than the rate for white males. And in states such as New York, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin ...
The Death of a Racial Pioneer in College Football
Oct 01, 2008; ... Playing in his first game for Iowa State University in October 1923, Jack Trice was trampled by several opposing players. Some witnesses said it was just part of the game of football. Others called it murder. The college football season is upon us. This autumn more than 10,000 black men ...
The State of Black Student Freshman Enrollments at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities
Oct 01, 2008; ... For the sixteenth 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. For the second year in a row, Columbia University leads the universities in the statistical ranking for enrolling ...
An Eyewitness Account of the Racial Integration of the University of Alabama
Oct 01, 2008; ... Editor's Note: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who was serving as deputy attorney general in the Kennedy administration, was the president's point man in a historical showdown with segregationist Alabama governor George C. Wallace. RELATIVELY EARLY IN in 1963 it became obvious that we would be ...
Disappointing Progress in Enrollments of Low-Income Students at America's Most Selective Colleges and Universities
Oct 01, 2008; ... Over the past three years nearly all of the nation 's highest-ranking colleges and universities have increased their commitment to more financial aid for low-income students. Yet, according to government figures, almost all of these institutions have seen a reduction in low-income students on ...
The Enduring Courage of the Freedom Riders
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE NARRATIVE of the civil rights movement has an inevitability bestowed by hindsight. It begins with the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision outlawing separate-but-equal education, moves through the stations of Alabama (Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma), veers harrowingly into Mississippi, and ...
The Racial Scoring Gap on the SAT College Admission Test Is Now Wider Than It Has Been in 20 Years
Oct 01, 2008; ... After two straight years of slight improvements, the racial scoring gap on the SAT tests widened by 10 points this year. The racial gap in test performance is now wider than at any time in the past two decades. WHEN THE COLLEGE Board released this year's results of the SAT college ...
Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine
Oct 01, 2008; ... Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine The Invisible Black Philosopher Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine by Bruce Kuklick (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 171 pages, $55.00) Blacks have ...
Black Higher Education in New Orleans Three Years After Hurricane Katrina
Oct 01, 2008; ... It has been three long years since the city of New Orleans was flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The city's three historically black universities continue to struggle to get back on their feet. The good news is that this year the three universities were spared major damage from ...
At the Elbow of My Elders: One Family's Journey Toward Civil Rights
Oct 01, 2008; ... At the Elbow of My Elders: One Family's Journey Toward Civil Rights The Black Bourgeoisie of St. Louis At the Elbow of My Elders: One Family's Journey Toward Civil Rights by Gail Milissa Grant (St. Louis: Missouri History Museum, 251 pages, $24.95) At the ...
Race Relations on Campus
Oct 01, 2008; ... A record of racial incidents on college and university campuses * A black woman who was fired from her tenured position in the College of Design at Arizona State University has filed a lawsuit claiming she was a victim of racial discrimination. The professor, who was tenured in 2000, was ...
Scholarly Research on the Higher Education of African Americans
Oct 01, 2008; ... Study Finds That Increased Racial Diversity on Campus Provides Social Benefits, Particularly for White College Students 'Does Campus Diversity Promote Friendship Diversity? A Look at Interracial Friendships in College" was authored by Mary J. Fischer, assistant professor of sociology at ...
Notable Minority-Related Grants to Institutions of Higher Education
Oct 01, 2008; ... * Alabama A&M University, the historically black educational institution in Normal, Alabama, received a $75,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant will be used to develop a business curriculum and conduct training workshops for local community leaders and ...