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THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Number 62
Winter 2008/2009
NEWS AND VIEWS, 6
- Outlook for the Endowments of Black Colleges, 6
- Cass Sunstein Is a Leading Choice for the Supreme Court: But He Is No Friend of Affirmative Action in College Admissions, 8
- Why Family Income Differences Don’t Explain the Racial Gap in SAT Scores, 10
- The Wrong-Headed Scholar Who Said Obama Could Not Be Elected President, 13
- The Dean of Admissions: Claiborne DeBorda Pell (1918-2009), 15
- Three African Americans Awarded Prestigious Rhodes Scholarships, 16
- A New College Rating Web Site May Be a Valuable Resource for College-Bound African-American Students, 18
- The University of Washington Has a New Online Treasure Trove of Information on the Ku Klux Klan in the Pacific Northwest, 19
- The Obama Election: The Remarkable Transformation of Voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 20
- University of South Carolina Scientists Measure the Stress of Racism in Brain Activity, 21
- Bob Jones University Apologizes for Its Racist Past, 22
- Budget Crunch Puts an End to Scholarship Program for College-Bound Students in Philadelphia, 23
- The Snail-Like Progress of Blacks in Faculty Ranks of Higher Education, 24
- Blacks and the White House: From Slave Builders to the Master of the House, 26
- The Last All-White College Football Championship Game, 27
- The Four Black Scientists Who Hold the National Institutes of Health’s Highest Honor, 28
- Here Comes a Possible Death Knell for the LSAT, 30
- The Higher Education Credentials of President Obama’s Senior Black Appointments, 32
- The Strange Career of Blind Tom, 33
- Will Obama’s Election Usher in a New Era of Race Relations? Let’s Have a Close Look, 35
- Stanford’s Caroline Hoxby Discovers a Large Pool of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students Who Do Not Apply to Selective Colleges, 36
- Number of Blacks Earning Doctorates in 2007 Increases by 10 Percent and Nears an All-Time High, 36
- Persisting Racial Disparity in High School Completions, 36
- Enrollment Cap at Campuses of California State University Likely to Disproportionately Affect College-Bound Blacks , 37
- Toni Morrison Society Finds a Home at Bucknell University, 37
- Pomona College to Keep Its College Song Despite Its Connection to a Blackface Minstrel Show, 37
- The College Board’s Quiet Campaign to End Racial Segregation at SAT Testing Centers in the Deep South, 38
- Update: African Americans Pick Up Four Coaching Spots in Big-Time College Football, 38
- Gilman Scholars Increase the Racial Diversity of College Students Who Study Abroad, 38
- The Persisting Racial Gap for Students Meeting the Admissions Standards at California’s Public Universities, 39
- Study Shows Benefits of Racial Diversity on College Campuses, 39
- College Students in Vermont Obtain Recognition for a Black Slave Who Fought in the Revolutionary War, 40
- French President Promises Greater Racial and Ethnic Diversity at Elite Universities, 40
- A Surge in Black Enrollments in Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Programs, 40
VITAL SIGNS: THE CURRENT STATE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 41
- The Black-White Higher Education Equality Index, 42
- JBHE Statistics That Measure the State of Racial Inequality, 43
- State-by-State Review of African-American Enrollments in Higher Education, 44
- African-American Four-Year Bachelor’s Degree Awards by State, 45
- Ranking the Flagship State Universities in the Education of Low-Income Students, 46
THE FALSE THESIS THAT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS ADMITTING LARGE NUMBERS OF UNQUALIFIED BLACK STUDENTS TO COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOLS, Malcolm Gladwell, 47
BLACK STUDENTS SHOW SOLID PROGRESS IN GRADUATION RATES AT HIGHLY SELECTIVE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 48
WILL THE COLLAPSE IN COLLEGE ENDOWMENTS PUT AN END TO PROGRAMS FOR RECRUITING LOW-INCOME STUDENTS? 59
HAVE HISTORIANS GIVEN BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A BAD RAP? Robert J. Norrell, 62
NORMAN DORSEN ON NICHOLAS DEB. KATZENBACH: THE MAN WHO STOOD TOE TO TOE WITH GEORGE C. WALLACE, 70
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK: A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA, Jay Parini, 72
HOW HIGHER EDUCATION ENABLED A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN TO BEAT THE ODDS, Roy Wenzl, 81
THE EARLY, UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO DESEGREGATE DUKE UNIVERSITY, Melissa Kean, 84
OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING, 87
DEPARTMENTS
- Minority-Related Grants, 93
- Black Digest of Literature, 96
- Race Relations on Campus, 100
- Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions, 102
- Scholarly Papers, 106
- Honors and Awards, 126
Previous Issues:
• Issue No. 61 – Autumn 2008
• 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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