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THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Number 57
Autumn 2007
Fifty Years Ago: The Little Rock Nine Integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 5
NEWS AND VIEWS, 6
• Harvard President Drew Faust Pledges a Major Increase in the Number of Black Faculty, 6
• The Decline in Black Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Law Schools, 8
• Three Blacks Named Goldwater Scholars, 9
• Black Scholar Declares That the Display of a Hangman’s Noose Is a Mere Prank, 10
• New Report Shows Blacks Are Almost Invisible on the Science Faculties at Major Research Universities , 10
• Ranking the Nation’s Leading Liberal Arts Colleges on Their Levels of Black Faculty, 14
• The Crosstown Rival That Bested Georgetown University in First Enrolling Black Students, 16
• White Coats, White Faces: Checking the Pulse of Blacks in Medical School Admissions, 17
• “Mislike Me Not for My Complexion”: The First Black Chemical Engineering Graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, 18
• Predominantly White College in Kentucky Plans to Adopt a Black College That Closed in 1988, 19
• The First Black Graduate of Smith College, 20
• A Stealth Effort Under Way to Keep the White House in the Hands of the GOP: Serious Harms for African-American Higher Education, 20
• New York University’s Legendary Black Fencer, 21
• Comparing the Educational Attainment of the Parents of Black and White Children in the United States, 22
• When the Publication of Unfavorable Racial Data Gives Comfort to White Supremacists, 23
• Blacks Are Scarce, But Still Welcome, at the Conservative Patrick Henry College, 25
• The Black Slave Who Won a College Degree, 26
• New Evidence Documents That Large Numbers of Black Students Are Unprepared for College, 27
• Four African Americans Awarded Truman Scholarships, 28
• Unemployment Rates Among College-Enrolled Black and White Students, 29
• African Americans in the Western States Are More Likely Than Other Black Americans to Be College Educated, 30
• Campus Free Speech: Supreme Court Upholds a Public School Ban on Student Speech: Now What About a Ban on Racial Slurs Against Blacks? 32
• Less “HOPE” for Black Higher Education in Georgia, 32
• The Widening Racial Gap in ACT College Admission Test Scores, 34
• New Admissions Rules at the City University of New York Will Further Curtail Black Student Enrollments at CUNY’s Four-Year Colleges, 36
• The Serious and Persisting Racial Gaps in Income, Wealth, and Poverty Rates Are Major Barriers to Better Education Opportunities for African Americans, 38
• Four Blacks Win MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards, 39
• Princeton University’s Black Studies Center Hits the Ground Running, 42
VITAL SIGNS: The Current State of African Americans in Higher Education, 43
• The Black-White Higher Education Equality Index, 44
• JBHE Statistics That Measure the State of Racial Inequality, 45
• Ranking the Nation’s Law Schools on Their Percentages of Black Students, 46
• Enrollments and Degree Attainments at the Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 48
Despite Surging Endowments, High-Ranking Universities and Colleges Show Disappointing Results in Enrolling Low-Income Students, 49
African Americans Making Solid Gains in BACHELOR’S and Advanced Degrees Black Women Far Out Ahead, 62
The persisting racial scoring gap on the sat college admission test, 68
THE SPIRITUAL SCHOLAR: W.E.B. Du Bois, Edward J. Blum, 73
The state of black student first-year enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities, 80
The Nobel Laureate who proclaimed the genetic inferiority of the black race, 89
OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING, 90
• Learning From the Urban Unrest of the Past, a review of Race, Space ,and Riots
by Janet Abu-Lughod, p. 90
• Clarence Thomas’ Clouded Memory, a review of My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir
by Clarence Thomas, p. 92
DEPARTMENTS
• Honors and Awards, 94
• Black Digest of Literature, 96
• Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions, 100
• Scholarly Research on the Higher Education of African Americans, 106
• Race Relations on Campus, 108
• Minority-Related Grants, 110
• Scholarly Papers, 114
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