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THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Number 65
Autumn 2009

NEWS AND VIEWS, 6

  • For Many Years GOP Senators Have Consistently Opposed Pell Grants: A Vital Program for the Higher Education of African Americans, 6
  • Many Obama Opponents Claim Their Votes Put Him in Office, 9
  • Black Men May Have Begun to Close the Gender Gap in African-American Law School Enrollments, 9
  • A Charismatic Black Man Headed the Presidential Ticket: Yet There Was a Disappointing Turnout Among College-Educated Black Voters, 12
  • Ranking the Nation’s Leading Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges on Their Numbers of Black Faculty, 14
  • The Widening Racial Gap in ACT College Admission Test Scores, 16
  • A Record Number of Black Freshmen at the University of Kentucky, 17
  • Five Blacks Elected Members of the Institute of Medicine, 18
  • Good News! Number of Black Medical School Students Is Increasing, 18
  • Mathematician Joins the Faculty at Rice University Where He Broke the Racial Ban on the Admission of Black Students, 19
  • The Mysterious Case of Lloyd Gaines and the Racial Integration of Higher Education, 20
  • Two Blacks Win MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards, 21
  • Chinua Achebe Joins the Faculty of Brown University, 21
  • Ten Blacks Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, 24
  • A Current Portrait of Public Black Colleges and Universities and the Students Who Attend Them, 26
  • Building a Collection of Artifacts From Racially Segregated America, 27
  • Four Blacks Among the Inaugural Class of 162 Fellows of the American Chemical Society            , 28
  • Pepperdine University Stands Firm in Support of Race-Based Scholarships, 29
  • The Black Man Who Brought Racial Integration to Louisiana State University, 31
  • Blacks Show Progress in High School Completions, 31
  • African-American Scholars Win Six Presidential Mentoring Awards, 32
  • Black Academics Unsuccessfully Urge the President to End a Century-Old Tradition of Honoring the Confederacy, 33
  • No Future for Blacks Who Aim to Enter the Field of Asian Language Studies, 34
  • Changes in Florida’s Major Scholarship Program Likely to Disproportionately Harm African-American College Students, 35
  • Young Blacks Are Beginning to Break Negative Stereotypes of a Racial Deficiency in the Sciences, 36
  • The Solid Progress of African Americans in Graduate School Enrollments, 38
  • Study Finds That Black and White Infants Start Out on a Level Playing Field in Cognitive Development, 39
  • The College That Pioneered Racial Integration in the South, 40

VITAL SIGNS: The Current State of African Americans in Higher Education, 41

THE STATUS OF BLACK STUDENT FRESHMAN ENROLLMENTS AT THE NATION’S HIGHEST-RANKED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 46

THE BLACK MAN WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR JAMES MEREDITH TO RACIALLY INTEGRATE THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, CHARLES W. EAGLES, 58

COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES: WHERE BLACK STUDENTS DO THE BEST, AND WHERE THEY FARE POORLY COMPARED TO THEIR WHITE PEERS, 65

PELL GRANTS: THE CORNERSTONE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION, 70

A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE EDUCATION STILL FAILS TO CLOSE THE RACIAL EARNINGS GAP, 80

THE PERSISTING RACIAL CHASM IN SCORES ON THE SAT COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, 84

OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING, 90

  • David Blight’s Epic of Emancipation, Danielle S. Allen reviews A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped toFreedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, p. 90
  • A Landmark Study on Disparities in College Graduation Rates, a review of Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities by William G. Bowen et al., p. 92
  • When the Murder of Blacks Was Public Theater, a look at Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood, p. 94
  • How Southern Politicians Slowed School Integration, a review of The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights by Anders Walker, p. 95
  • Columbia University’s Testy Relationship With the Surrounding Black Community, a review of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s by Stefan M. Bradley, p. 96

DEPARTMENTS           

  • Honors and Awards, 98
  • Race Relations on Campus, 101 
  • Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions, 102
  • Black Digest of Literature, 109 
  • Minority-Related Grants, 112
  • Scholarly Papers, 116 

Previous Issues:

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