At West Virginia University, Black Enrollments Exceed Parity With the Black Percentage of the State’s Population
Black enrollments are up 7.7 percent this year compared to an overall increase of just over one percent.
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Nov 24, 2011 | 0 comments
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A Surge in Black Applicants in New Non-Binding Early Action Admissions Programs
Both the University of Virginia and Harvard University report large increases in black early applicants from four years ago.
Nov 23, 2011 | 0 comments
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Blacks Make Up a Large Share of College Students With Military Service Credentials
Veterans and active duty or reserve military personnel make up 4 percent of all students in higher education.
Nov 20, 2011 | 0 comments
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University of Florida Seeks to Increase Racial Diversity in Its Doctoral Programs
The HBCU-UF Master’s to Ph.D. Pathway Project targets high performing master’s degree students at historically black colleges and universities.
Nov 18, 2011 | 0 comments
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University of Michigan Releases Black Enrollment Data
Official counts of black students have declined but the numbers may be a bit deceiving.
Penn State Showing Progress in Black Enrollments
Blacks make up 6 percent of all students at Penn State. A decade ago the figure was 4.4 percent.
Nov 10, 2011 | 0 comments
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A Check-Up of Black Progress in U.S. Medical Schools
Applications and first-year enrollments of blacks are both up from a year ago.
Nov 10, 2011 | 0 comments
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Three Flagship State Universities Report Black Enrollment Data
A healthy rise in black first-year students at the University of Illinois and the University of Arkansas, but a small drop in total black enrollments at Indiana University.
Oct 02, 2011 | 0 comments
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Black Enrollments in Higher Education Expected to Continue to Grow
By 2020, the official estimate is that there will be 3.6 million African Americans enrolled in higher education.
Sep 28, 2011 | 0 comments
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Sharp Increase in Graduate Students at HBCU in North Carolina
A $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education provides scholarships for up to 50 graduate students in biology and mathematics.
Sep 28, 2011 | 0 comments
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The Gender Gap in African-American Graduate School Enrollments
The Council of Graduate Schools has released new data on enrollments for the 2010-11 academic year. That year, there were 1,476,674 American citizens or permanent U.S. residents enrolled in U.S. graduate schools. Of these, 176,836, or 12 percent, were African Americans. So, in relation to relative percentages of the U.S. population, African-Americans have reached parity [...]
Sep 25, 2011 | 0 comments
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University of Wisconsin Defends Its Admissions Program
In 2008, the University of Wisconsin at Madison admitted 71.8 percent of black applicants and 59.3 percent of white applicants.
Three African-American Siblings, All of Different Ages, Are Spending Their First Semester as Students at Cornell University
They all are graduates of Ithaca High School and were raised by their maternal grandmother.
Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments
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Texas A&M Reports Black Enrollment Data
This year, for the first time, there are more than 50,000 students on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. Among these students are 1,723 African Americans, an increase of nine black students from a year ago.
Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments
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Black Enrollments Surge at the University of Missouri
Black students increased from 2,026 in 2010 to 2,231 this year, an increase of more than 10 percent.
Sep 09, 2011 | 0 comments
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The Racial Gender Gap in U.S. Dental Schools
In dental school enrollments, the large gender gap in favor of men exists only for whites.
Sep 09, 2011 | 0 comments
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Cornell University Reports Sharp Increase in Black Freshmen
Cornell University reports that there are 209 African-American freshmen on campus this fall, up from 172 last year.
Sep 01, 2011 | 0 comments
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Marshall University School of Medicine Seeks Minority Students
Project PRE MED will invite black and other minority college students to campus for a weekend this October.
Aug 25, 2011 | 0 comments
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Duke University School of Nursing Looks to Increase Diversity
This summer 10 undergraduate students participated in a six-week program at Duke University designed to increase the number of minorities in nursing.
Aug 25, 2011 | 0 comments
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Record Number of Black Freshmen at the University of Georgia
There are 5,500 freshman students this year, an increase of 10 percent from a year ago.
Aug 25, 2011 | 0 comments
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At the University of Michigan, Minority Applications Are Up, But the Number of Minority Students Accepted for Admission Is Down
The University of Michigan has announced that it received a record number of applications for the 2011 entering class. However, the university announced that 1,576 minority students were accepted for admission, a 3.7 decrease from a year ago.
Aug 08, 2011 | 0 comments
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