THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Number 67
Spring 2010

Theodore Lamont Cross (1924-2010), 2

African Americans in Higher Education: Then and Now, 7

Why The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education? Theodore Cross, 8

African Americans and the Competitive Awakening in Higher Education, Theodore Cross, 10

A Half-Century on the Battle Lines for Civil Rights, Theodore Cross, 13

The scholarship of Theodore Cross on Issues relating to Black Higher Education, 16

Tributes to Theodore Cross and His Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 20

Danielle S. Allen —  Elijah Anderson —  Houston A. Baker Jr. —  Howard H. Baker Jr. —  Mary Catherine Bateson —  Derrick Bell —  William G. Bowen —  W. Fitzhugh Brundage —  David Brion Davis —  Robert J. Del Tufo —  Norman C. Francis —  Henry Louis Gates Jr. —  Richard A. Goldsby —  Amy Gutmann —  Steven Hahn —  Kate Hughes —  Nicholas deB. Katzenbach —  Randall L. Kennedy —  Manning Marable —  Anthony W. Marx —  Milton Moskowitz —  Nell Irvin Painter —  Peter Pouncey —  Neil L. Rudenstine —  Donald H. Rumsfeld —  Theodore M. Shaw —  Cornel West —  William Julius Wilson

Thomas Carlyle and Affirmative Action, Theodore Cross, 35

The Legacy of Ted Cross’ Journal of Blacks In Higher Education, Robert Bruce Slater, 36

NEWS AND VIEWS, 38

• A Healthy Increase in the Number of Blacks in Academic Nursing, 38
• Wealth and Access to Higher Education: The Double Whammy of Race and Gender, 40
• Good News! Mellon Mays Fellows Program to Increase Minority College Faculty Is Funded for Four Additional Years, 42
• The First African-American College Rodeo Champion, 42
• The Congressional Representatives Who Were Least Likely to Support the NAACP on Education and Other Key Issues Important to Blacks, 43
• Why Black Doctoral Recipients Tend to Be Older Than Their White Counterparts, 44
• State Universities That Are Making the Most Progress in Improving the Graduation Rates of Minority Students, 45
• The Higher Education Gender Gap Among African Americans Is Changing the Dynamics of the Black Family, 46
• Despite Massive Problems, California State University Has Not Given Up on Racial Diversity, 48
• Two African Americans Win Gates Cambridge Scholarships, 49
• A Statistical Portrait of Freshmen at Black Colleges, 50
• The Persisting Racial Digital Divide in Internet Access, 54
• Only One African American Among the New Members of the National Academy of Engineering, 55
• Assessing the Satisfaction Levels of Black Faculty at Stanford University, 56
• A Large Racial Unemployment Gap Prevails Even for Blacks and Whites With a Four-Year College Degree, 57
• The New Chair of the NAACP Is a Highly Educated Black Woman, 57
• Black Medical School Enrollments Need a Booster Shot, 58
• Three Black Students Win Watson Fellowships, 58           
• The Obama Administration Defends the Use of Race in University Admissions, 59
• The Outlook for Black Student Participation in Florida’s Bright Futures Scholarships Looks Increasingly Dim, 59
• The University of Memphis Announces a New Archive Honoring Paul Revere Williams, 60
• University of Texas Upgrades Black Studies to Departmental Status, 61
• Berkeley Gets Major Gift to Promote Diversity, 61
• The “New” Book by Ralph Ellison, 62
• Five African Americans Win Truman Scholarships, 63

VITAL SIGNS: The Current State of African Americans in Higher Education, 65

• The Black-White Higher Education Equality Index, 66
• JBHE Statistics That Measure the State of Racial Inequality, 67
• Students and Faculty From African Nations at U.S. Colleges and Universities, 68
• Ranking the States in Black Student Success in the Advanced Placement Program, 70
• Black Student Performance on AP Tests: Ranking the States on Racial Equity, 71
• Are Flagship Universities Failing in Their Mission to Enroll Equitable Percentages of Minority Students? 72
• Ranking the States on Black Medical School Graduates, 73
• State-by-State Review of African-American Enrollments in Higher Education, 2008, 74
• State-by-State Review of African-American Degree Attainments in Higher Education, 75
• More Blacks are Competing in Advanced Placement Programs, But the Large Racial Scoring Gap Persists, 76

OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING, 81

• The Architects of the Legal Strategy That Ended Racial Segregation, a review of Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation by Rawn James Jr., p. 81
• Paul Robeson Jr. Celebrates His Father’s Life, a review by Milton Moskowitz of The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom, 1939-1976, p. 82
• The Civil Rights Battle of the 21st Century, a review of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, p. 86
• A Leader in Promoting Higher Education for African Americans, a review of Roland M. Baumann’s Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College, p. 88

DEPARTMENTS

• Minority-Related Grants, 90
• Black Digest of Literature, 93
• Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions, 98
• Honors and Awards, 104
• Race Relations on Campus, 108
• Scholarly Papers, 110

Previous Issues:

• Issue No. 65 – Autumn 2009
• Issue No. 64 – Summer 2009
• Issue No. 63 – Spring 2009
• 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