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JBHE Study Shows Significant Increase in Black Freshmen at the Nation's Highly Ranked Colleges and Universities --- A report by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education finds that enrollment of black freshmen at the nation's highly ranked universities and liberal arts colleges continues to rise. Combined, the number of black freshmen at these institutions has increased by nearly 10 percent since 1994.

Comparing Black Enrollments at the Public Ivies --- Many of the nation's most prestigious state-operated universities now offer a standard of education comparable to that at the nation's highest-rated private colleges and universities. And they do so at a fraction of the cost.

The Most Highly Cited Black Mathematicians --- There are few black mathematicians holding professorships at U.S. universities. And even fewer are regularly cited by their peers in articles published in academic journals.

Other News & Views items from this issue:

• Fourteen-Year Enrollment Trends for Black Freshmen at Ivy League Colleges

• Is Black Studies Becoming an Academic Stepchild?

• Glenn Loury Moves to Brown University

• Black Colleges Still Offer Tuition Bargains, But Their Edge Is Slipping Away

• JBHE Whopper of the Year Award: Jesse Helms Says, "I'm Not the Least Bit Racist"

• The Higher Education of America's "Best" Black Leaders

• Three Blacks Win MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards

• African Americans Show a Major Increase in Higher Education Degrees At All Levels, But Black Women Continue to Far Outpace Black Men

• August Wilson, 1945-2005

• Australia Has Produced a New Academic Racialist

• The Courthouse Where Heman Sweatt Was Denied Admission to the University of Texas Law School Now Bears His Name

• Black Teams, White Coaches: African Americans Are Making Almost No Progress in College Coaching Positions

• William Hubbs Rehnquist, R.I.P.

• In Honor of the Little Rock Nine

• Could It Be That the White House Is Cutting Back on Pell Grant Aid In Order to Recruit More Blacks to Join the Army?

• Harvard Economist Says "Acting White" Stigma is Limited to Blacks at Predominantly White Schools

• Vivian Juanita Malone Jones, 1942-2005

• In Selecting a Course Major Only a Tiny Percentage of African-American College Students Choose Black Studies

• Tracking Black and White Progress in Higher Education Degree Attainments

• Lucius Quintas Cincinnatus Lamar: The College Professor Who Steered the Supreme Court Toward Racial Segregation

• The First Black Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy

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