News and Views: Black Students Targeted for Removal at the University

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The;  December 31, 1996 ;     700+ words ......universities at Berkeley and UCLA, which...largely closed to black students, now each have...fact that in 1994 black students at the Berkeley campus had an average...1256. Entering black students at Berkeley had a mean high...

News and Views: Black Students Targeted for Removal at the University of...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  December 31, 1996 ;     700+ words ......universities at Berkeley and UCLA, which...largely closed to black students, now each have...fact that in 1994 black students at the Berkeley campus had an average...1256. Entering black students at Berkeley had a mean high...

Facing sterotypes: A case study of black students on a white campus

Journal of College Student Development;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......conducted with 15 academically successful Black students attending a predominantly White institution...that emerged from the data was that Black students faced stereotypes that eroded their...6-year college graduation rate for Black students (40%), has continued to lag behind...

Black students dwindling at Berkeley

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 4, 2004 ;     158 words ...BERKELEY, Calif. -- Sometimes, Adia Harrison...at the University of California at Berkeley and is slightly surprised at the reminder...like her. This fall, being black at Berkeley is likely to become even more of an...already is. As of late spring, 98 black students had registered for fall, ...

News and Views: How Universities Differ in Their Competition for Black...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  July 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ......campaigns, the purchase of lists of black students who score high on their SAT test, the use of current black students to recruit at black high schools...place to increase the number of black students on campus. We received a generous...

Race Relations Policy May Benefit Black Students

Los Angeles Sentinel;  November 11, 1998 ;     500 words ......11-11-1998 Race Relations Policy May Benefit Black Students By CAROLYN DEJOIE Special to the NNPA...President Clinton will be welcomed by black students on predominantly white campuses. The...can improve the academic potential of black students. As colleges and universities follow...

BLACK STUDENTS IN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT REGRESS IN 8 AREAS NAACP REPORT ON...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  April 29, 2003 ;     548 words ...Byline: Doug Erickson Education reporter Black students in the Madison School District regressed...is the improvement rapid enough for black students to catch white students by 2005-06...has been tracking the achievement of black students since 2001, when it gave the district...

STUDY: BLACK STUDENTS DO BETTER IN BLACK SCHOOL

Post-Tribune (IN);  December 10, 1987 ;     538 words ......white? - what difference does it make, black students and their parents ask. Jacqueline Fleming...expect the answer her research revealed. Black students attending black colleges demonstrate twice as much intellectual development as black students at white colleges. In fact, ...

Montgomery Hits A Testing Milestone For Black Students; 1,000 AP Exams...

The Washington Post;  December 4, 2007 ;     666 words ...Black students in Montgomery County high schools...to increase AP participation among black students, who remain underrepresented in the...District, the number of AP exams taken by black students rose by nearly 50 percent, though...

UK Administration, black students attempt to boost retention

University Wire;  February 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ......place with 24,000 others like them. For black students, the challenge of belonging seems doubly...Institutional Planning and Budget, more black students leave UK in their first two years than...Social work senior George Myers says black students leave often due to and unwelcoming...

University Race-Sensitive Admissions Programs Are Not Helping Black...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Pennsylvania finds that large numbers of black students at the nation's most selective colleges...successful. For example, the number of black students in the entering class at Harvard increased...1969. At Yale the number of entering black students rose from 23 in 1965 to 96 in ...

The effect of attending historically black colleges and universities on...

Industrial and Labor Relations Review;  April 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......only source of higher education for black students. These schools persist four decades...a disproportionately large share of black students with bachelor's degrees. Hence, a study...enhance the labor market performance of black students, relative to other institutions. Despite...

Berkeley chancellor vows to increase minority enrollment: Birgeneau...

Black Issues in Higher Education;  May 5, 2005 ;     540 words ...BERKELEY, CALIF. The chancellor...University of California, Berkeley says Black and Hispanic...was appointed to lead Berkeley last September, stopped...allowed at UC campuses, Berkeley enrolled 260 Black students. Last fall, there were...esn't make the situation at ...

Collegians confront 'icebergs'; Cultural issues: Black students often...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......that just as important as attracting black students to their enrollment ranks is offering...and the University of Dubuque said black students who enroll at the schools usually pay...and community demographics. UD has 76 black students this year, Loras has 29 and Clarke...

Black students score lower than whites

Charleston Gazette;  August 16, 2006 ;     300 words ...amallory@wvgazette.com Black students across West Virginia scored...test, while whites scored 20.7. Black students' scores are the lowest of any...significant, West Virginia's black students earned higher average scores...