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THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Number 63
Spring 2009
NEWS AND VIEWS, 5
• Racial Segregation at the Dedication of the Memorial to the Great Emancipator, 5
• JBHE’s Annual Citation Rankings of Black Scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, 6
• Are Black Student Athletes Getting a Free Pass in Their Academic Pursuits? 8
• The National Merit Scholarship Program Persists in Its Racially Segregated Awards, 9
• A Statistical Portrait of Freshmen at Black Colleges, 12
• In Family Wealth, Whites Still Hold Overwhelming Advantages in Paying for College, 16
• Older African Americans Are More Likely Than Older Whites to Be Currently Enrolled in College, 18
• The Alarming Upward Trend in Cigarette Smoking for College-Educated Black Men and Women, 19
• Harvard’s Louis Agassiz on the Negro Race, 20
• The Ebony Experiment: The Difficulties in “Buying Black,” 21
• More Blacks Are Taking SAT II Achievement Tests, Yet the Racial Scoring Gap is Widening, 22
• Three Blacks Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships, 25
• No Black Colleges or Universities Listed Among the World’s 1,000 Highest-Rated University Web Sites, 26
• Percy Pierre Is the Only African American Among the 65 New Members of the National Academy of Engineering, 27
• What Was The Book of Negroes? 28
• The Canadian Obama, 29
• Black Teams, White Coaches: Racial Inequality in Coaching of College Sports, 30
• Black Faculty Claims Racism Rules Tenure Decisions at Emerson College, 32
• If Spelman Is Hurting, How Can Other Black Colleges Survive? 33
• Notre Dame Offers Black Doctoral Students Help in Completing Their Dissertations, 34
• African-American Leader of Vanderbilt’s Endowment Portfolio Beats the Stock Market Downturn, 35
• Ranking Black Scholars by the Number of Times They Are Mentioned in the Press, 36
• The Nation’s First African-American Academic Computer Scientist Is Logging Out, 39
• This Is Not Your Grandfather’s NAACP, 40
• A Surge in Black Enrollments in Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Programs, 41
• Who’s Still Talking About Reparations? 42
• More Than 2.2 Million African Americans Are Now Enrolled in Higher Education, 43
• New Information on the First Black Graduates of the University of Notre Dame, 43
• Each Year There Are Hundreds of Thousands of African-American College Dropouts, 44
• Black Progress in Nursing School Enrollments, 44
• Will the New Admissions Procedures at the University of California Lead to an Increase in Black Enrollments? 45
• Tougher Admissions Requirements at the University of Oregon May Actually Boost Racial Diversity, 46
• Tens of Thousands of Low-Income College Students Do Not Apply for Pell Grants, 46
VITAL SIGNS: THE CURRENT STATE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 47
• The Black-White Higher Education Equality Index, 48
• JBHE Statistics That Measure the State of Racial Inequality, 49
• Students and Faculty From African Nations at U.S. Colleges and Universities, 50
• Ranking the States in Black Student Success in the Advanced Placement Program, 52
• Over the Past Decade African-American College Enrollments Have Increased in Every State Except Alaska, 53
HISTORIAN OF THE CENTURY: JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN (1915-2009), 54
THE ROOTS OF DR. BENJAMIN CARSON: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY’S RENOWNED NEUROSURGEON, Henry Louis Gates Jr., 56
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA’S SLOW PATH TO RACIAL INTEGRATION, 64
HOW BLACK PROFESSORS ARE PORTRAYED IN AMERICAN FICTION, Robert Fikes Jr., 66
WHEN TEDDY ROOSEVELT INVITED BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO DINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE, Robert J. Norrell, 70
MORE BLACKS ARE COMPETING IN ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAMS, BUT THE RACIAL SCORING GAP IS WIDENING, 75
OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING, 80
• When the Niggers Moved Into Levittown, a review of David Kushner’s Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb, 80
• How Darwin Refuted the Biological Rationale for Slavery, 82
• The New Black Book, Milton Moskowitz reviews The African-American Experience, 83
• Weaning Africa Off Foreign Aid, a review of Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid, 85
• The Complex Structure of Racial Inequality, a review of William Julius Wilson’s More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City, 86
• The Private Correspondence of Black Public Intellectuals, a review of Letters From Black America, 88
DEPARTMENTS
• Honors and Awards, 90
• Minority-Related Grants, 93
• Black Digest of Literature, 96
• Race Relations on Campus, 100
• Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions, 102
• Scholarly Papers, 106
• Research on Blacks in Higher Education, 128
Previous Issues:
• Issue No. 62 – Winter 2008/09
• 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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