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THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Number 61
Autumn 2008
NEWS AND VIEWS, 5
- 75 Years Ago, Black Men Were Subject to Public Lynching: Now, a Black Man Will Be President of the United States, 5
- J. Lorand Matory Leaves Harvard, 6
- What Does the Election of Barack Obama Mean for African-American Higher Education? 9
- Black Enrollments on the Rise at a Large Number of Flagship State Universities, 10
- Center for Equal Opportunity Continues Its Battle to End Affirmative Action Admissions at the Nation’s Law Schools, 11
- College and University Administrators: Look for an Expected Backlash From the Election of Barack Obama, 11
- Black Enrollments at the Nation’s Christian Colleges Are on the Rise, 12
- A Current Portrait of Public Black Colleges and Universities, 15
- The Widening Racial Gap in ACT College Admission Test Scores, 16
- UCLA Professor Charges His University With Cheating on Admissions of Unqualified Black Students, 18
- Proposition 209 Has Crippled Black Faculty Hiring at the University of California, 19
- Black Enterprise Magazine’s Bizarre Rankings of the Nation’s Colleges and Universities, 20
- Four Blacks Win MacArthur Genius Awards, 23
- Blacks Making Solid Progress in Graduate School Enrollments: Women Are in the Lead, 26
- Five Blacks Elected to the Institute of Medicine, 27
- Black Mathematician Comes Full Circle at the University of Mississippi, 28
- Blacks Lose Ground in Medical School Applications and New Enrollments, 29
- New Book Will Explore the “Chicago Renaissance” 29
- Princeton University to Expand Its Prize Competition for Students Who Work to Achieve Better Race Relations, 29
- Social Psychology Experiment Reveals White College Students’ Reluctance to Discuss Issues of Race, 29
- Xavier University Produces Twice the Number of Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics Than Any Other Black College or University, 31
- Are Black Law School Students Stigmatized by Affirmative Action? 31
- Bush Education Department Aims to Pressure Colleges and Universities to Cut Back Race-Sensitive Admissions, 32
- Black-White Differences in Ph.D. Completion Rates, 32
- Florida’s Merit-Based College Scholarships Go Mostly to Whites, 33
- Report Finds That Black Women Are More Likely Than Black Men, White Men, or White Women to Leave Tenure-Track Positions, 34
- African-American College Students Have the Lowest Rate of Cigarette Smoking, 34
- Refuting the False Theory That a Ban on Affirmative Action Would Increase the Number of Black Lawyers, 34
- Spelman Tops U.S. News’ Rankings of Black Colleges, 35
- Black Colleges and Universities Are Graduating an Increasing Share of African Americans Who Earn Ph.D.s in Mathematics and Science, 35
- Black Enrollments on the Rise at Graduate Schools of Theology, 35
- Race-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions Appears to Be Declining, 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
- Ranking the Nation’s Law Schools According to Percentages of Black Students, 40
- The Racial Gap in Graduation Rates Between Black and White Male High School Students, 42
THE STATE OF BLACK STUDENT FRESHMAN ENROLLMENTS AT THE NATION’S HIGHEST-RANKED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 44
DISAPPOINTING PROGRESS IN ENROLLMENTS OF LOW-INCOME STUDENTS AT AMERICA’S MOST SELECTIVE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 55
AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE RACIAL INTEGRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, 60
THE ENDURING COURAGE OF THE FREEDOM RIDERS, Diane McWhorter, 66
THE RACIAL SCORING GAP ON THE SAT COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST IS NOW WIDER THAN IT HAS BEEN IN 20 YEARS, 74
BLACK HIGHER EDUCATION IN NEW ORLEANS THREE YEARS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA, 79
OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING, 82
DEPARTMENTS
- Black Digest of Literature, 88
- Race Relations on Campus, 91
- Minority-Related Grants, 92
- Scholarly Research on Black Higher Education, 95
- Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions, 96
- Honors and Awards, 102
- Scholarly Papers, 104
Previous Issues:
• Issue No. 60 – Summer 2008
• Issue No. 59 – Spring 2008
• Issue No. 58 – Winter 2007/08
• Issue No. 57 – Autumn 2007
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