Read an article from Issue No. 65 (Autumn 2009):

Black Men May Have Begun to Close the Gender Gap in African-American Law School Enrollments --- Over the past quarter of a century, black women have been outperforming black men in almost every area of higher education. In law school education, a field that once was almost exclusively reserved for men, African-American women now make up more than 61 percent of all black enrollments at the nation’s highest-ranked law schools. The good news is that black men now may have begun to close the gap.

Ranking the Nation’s Leading Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges on Their Numbers of Black Faculty --- The number of black faculty at the nation’s 30 highest-ranked universities is often distorted by the fact that a large percentage of the faculties at these schools are medical school faculty members who make up a majority of the total count. Even so, only two of the highest-ranking universities have a percentage of black faculty that is higher than the national average for black faculty at all institutions. Although a great number of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges are located in rural areas of states in the Northeast or Midwest, many of these colleges have been successful in attracting significant numbers of black faculty.

Pepperdine University Stands Firm in Support of Race-Based Scholarships --- Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, has a conservative political reputation together with strong religious affiliations. So it comes as a surprise that Pepperdine, unlike many other private universities, has refused to knuckle under to right-wing litigating groups that have demanded that the university end its race-based scholarship program.