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THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Number 58
Winter 2007/08
NEWS AND VIEWS, 6
• Once Again, a Decline in Doctoral Degree Awards to African Americans, 6
• Black Universities Are Getting Their Toes in the Door of Academic Publishing in the Sciences, 9
• Ivy League Generosity Will Lure Affluent and Brightest Black Students Away From State Universities, 10
• The Black-White Divide in Cultural Pursuits, 13
• Clint Bolick Resets His Sights on Affirmative Action in Higher Education, 15
• Sound the Trumpets: For the First Time, More Than Four Million African Americans Now Hold a Four-Year College Degree, 16
• A Ten-Year Review of Black Freshman Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Universities, 17
• High-Ranking Liberal Arts Colleges Where African-American Students May Stand the Best Chance of Admission, 19
• Black Women Increasing Their Share of African-American Enrollments in Law School, 22
• Stanley F. Battle Looks to Attract the Best and Brightest Black Students to North Carolina A&T State University, 24
• Ian Smith, R.I.P., 25
• Black Bachelor’s Degree Recipients Are Fueling the Jump in Graduate School Enrollments, 26
• Stuart Hall: Britain’s Leading Racial and Cultural Theorist, 27
• More Blacks Are Taking SAT II Achievement Tests but the Racial Scoring Gap Is Increasing, 28
• Black Faculty Enjoy Solid Demand in Academia: Yet They Are Less Likely Than Whites to Win Tenure, 31
• John Marshall Harlan: The True Story of the Great Dissenter, 32
• Looking Back: Ronald Reagan, a Master of Racial Polarization, 33
• The Legal Defense Fund Has a New Head, 36
• Yale Lands a Leading Black Sociologist, 37
• “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman: The Most Lionized Figure in South Carolina History ,38
• How the Southern States Handed the North the Power to Abolish Slavery ,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
• The Racially Diverse Faculties at America’s Black Colleges, 45
Here is good news on black student college graduation rates but a huge racial gap persists, 46
How the G.I. Bill Failed African-American Vietnam War Veterans, Mark Boulton, 57
A grandfather’s deathbed injunction, Ralph Ellison, 61
Nineteenth-century racism: the Anthropologist who first defined the Negro’s Place in Nature, 62
The black neoconservative intellectuals, Christopher Alan Bracey, 64
New Haven’s Ill-fated attempt to establish the first black college, Hilary Moss, 78
THE Talented black scholars whom no white university would hire, 80
Opinions on current reading, 86
DEPARTMENTS
• Race Relations on Campus, 90
• Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions, 94
• Black Digest of Literature, 100
• Scholarly Research on the Higher Education of African Americans, 103
• Minority-Related Grants, 104
• Honors and Awards, 107
• Scholarly Papers, 108
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