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THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Number 59
Spring 2008
HOW YOUNG BLACKS ARE BEING MISLED BY BOGUS INFORMATION ON THE DROPOUT RATES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS AT THE NATION’S LEADING PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS, 5
NEWS AND VIEWS, 6
• JBHE’S Annual Citation Rankings of Black Scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, 6
• High-Ranking Colleges and Universities Strengthen Financial Aid, 9
• More Black Students Are Being Admitted to the University of California But the Flagship Berkeley Campus Is a Poor Performer, 9
• Knoxville College Keeps Fighting to Survive, 12
• Harvard Scholar Whitewashes the Ku Klux Klan, 13
• The Devastating Impact of Proposition 209 on Black Higher Education in California, 14
• A Darling of the Neocons Calls for an All-Out War on Islam, 15
• A Statistical Portrait of Freshmen at Black Colleges, 16
• College Internship Program Aims to Increase Racial Diversity in the Newsroom, 20
• Report Finds That Most Black Colleges Are Not in Compliance With Title IX, 20
• New University Looks to Stem the African Brain Drain, 22
• Black Colleges and Universities Show Impressive Endowment Growth, 23
• Is the Texas 10 Percent Plan Still Necessary? 24
• The Diplomat Who Might Become the British Obama, 25
• Five African Americans Awarded Truman Scholarships, 26
• The College That Was a Pioneer in the Racial Integration of Southern Higher Education, 27
• Black Enrollments Plummet at the University of South Carolina, 28
• A Majority of Africans Who Earn a Ph.D. in the United States Remain in This Country, 30
• Johns Hopkins University Allocates $5 Million to Advance Faculty Diversity, 30
• Analysis Finds That Historically Black Colleges and Universities Still Come Up Short in State Funding, 30
• Twenty Black Students Named 2008 Ron Brown Scholars, 31
• Research Finds That Black Elementary School Students Are Catching Up to Whites in Reading Achievement, 31
• The College Applicant Pool Has Crested, But More Minority Students Expected to Enroll in College, 31
• Black Colleges Lag in Producing Peace Corps Volunteers, 32
• The Ohio State University Graduate Who Was America’s First Black Commercial Airline Pilot, 33
• University of Maryland to Investigate Its Ties to Slavery, 33
• Ernest C. Levister Led the Fight to Advance Racial Diversity in Medical Education in California, 34
• Howard University Completes the Most Successful Fundraising Drive Ever Undertaken by a Black University, 34
• High School Students Believe the Most Famous Americans Are Black, 34
• Study Finds That Elite Colleges and Universities Are Relying More on High SAT Scores in Student Admissions , 35
• Racial Differences in How College Students Spend Their Day, 35
• Florida Aims to Redirect Merit-Based Aid to Students in Need, 35
• Huston-Tillotson University Bucking the Gender Gap in African-American Higher Education, 36
• Blacks Making Little Progress in Positions That Are Stepping Stones to College and University Presidencies, 36
VITAL SIGNS: THE CURRENT STATE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 37
• The Black-White Higher Education Equality Index, 38
• JBHE Statistics That Measure the State of Racial Inequality, 39
• Students and Faculty From African Nations at U.S. Colleges and Universities, 40
• Ranking the States in Black Student Success in the Advanced Placement Program, 42
THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN MOST INFLUENTIAL IN DESEGREGATING HIGHER EDUCATION, Marcia G. Synnott, 44
THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES: THE YOUNG NATION CONFRONTS THE ISSUE OF RACE, George M. Fredrickson, 54
THE ENDURING IMPORTANCE OF RICHARD WRIGHT, Milton Moskowitz, 58
MORE BLACKS ARE COMPETING IN ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAMS, BUT THE RACIAL SCORING GAP IS WIDENING, 63
ELIJAH ANDERSON’S FRESH START AT YALE UNIVERSITY, Julia M. Klein, 68
THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATION OF W.E.B. DU BOIS, Brian Johnson, 74
OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING, 80
DEPARTMENTS
• Black Digest of Literature, 88
• Scholarly Research on the Higher Education of African Americans, 91
• Race Relations on Campus, 92
• Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions, 94
• Minority-Related Grants, 98
• Honors and Awards, 100
• Scholarly Papers, 102
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