Category: Racial Gap

New Princeton University Committee Aims to Identify Ways to Enhance Diversity

New Princeton University Committee Aims to Identify Ways to Enhance Diversity

The committee will develop recommendations for strategies to attract people of color and women to positions in which they have historically been underrepresented.

Feb 02, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
Purdue Reports a Shrinking Racial Gap in Retention Rates

Purdue Reports a Shrinking Racial Gap in Retention Rates

In the past five years the racial gap has shrunk from 11 percentage points to almost nothing.

Jan 27, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
Mentoring Program Aims to Increase the Number of Black Men Seeking Careers in Medicine

Mentoring Program Aims to Increase the Number of Black Men Seeking Careers in Medicine

Fifteen African American male students from sixth grade classes in Pittsburgh area schools are chosen for the program each year.

Jan 13, 2012 | 1 comment View Post
The College Enrollment Rates of the Children of Native-Born and Immigrant Black Families

The College Enrollment Rates of the Children of Native-Born and Immigrant Black Families

Children in Black families who immigrated to the United States are more likely to enroll in selective colleges than the children of White and native-born Black families.

Jan 12, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
High School Dropouts: Black Rate Double That of Whites

High School Dropouts: Black Rate Double That of Whites

More than 9 percent of all African Americans ages 16 to 24 in October 2009 did not have a high school diploma or the equivalent and were no longer enrolled in school.

Jan 05, 2012 | 5 comments View Post
The Racial Gap in Graduation Rates at the U.S. Service Academies

The Racial Gap in Graduation Rates at the U.S. Service Academies

Nationwide, the Black student college graduation rate is about 20 percentage points lower than the rate for White students. But at the U.S. service academies the racial gap is much lower.

Jan 05, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
Will College-Age Blacks Vote in 2012?

Will College-Age Blacks Vote in 2012?

There was a huge jump in voter participation by young Blacks in 2008. Will the same enthusiasm prevail in 2012?

Dec 31, 2011 | 1 comment View Post
In Smoking, the Racial Gap Strongly Favors Blacks

In Smoking, the Racial Gap Strongly Favors Blacks

A University of Michigan study finds that Whites are twice as likely as Blacks to smoke cigarettes.

Dec 29, 2011 | 2 comments View Post
Racial Differences in Criminal Victimization in Schools

Racial Differences in Criminal Victimization in Schools

African-American students were nearly twice as likely as white students to be victims of violent crime in school.

Dec 23, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
The Persisting Racial Digital Divide

The Persisting Racial Digital Divide

Whites are more likely than Blacks to have wired broadband services in the home.

Dec 16, 2011 | 2 comments View Post
University of Delaware Mounts Effort to Increase Racial Diversity

University of Delaware Mounts Effort to Increase Racial Diversity

Blacks are just 5 percent of the undergraduate student body and 4 percent of the faculty but 21 percent of the state’s population.

Dec 10, 2011 | 1 comment View Post
Emory University Research Finds Racial Disparity in Kidney Transplants for Youth

Emory University Research Finds Racial Disparity in Kidney Transplants for Youth

Black youth without health insurance were 59 percent more likely to die than young White patients.

Dec 09, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
Hold Your Applause on the New Unemployment Rate Data

Hold Your Applause on the New Unemployment Rate Data

While the nation’s unemployment rate dropped, the rates for Black men and Black women both went up.

Dec 03, 2011 | 3 comments View Post
Study Finds That Income Trumps Race in Explaining Academic Achievement Gap

Study Finds That Income Trumps Race in Explaining Academic Achievement Gap

According to the Stanford University research, 50 years ago, just the opposite was true.

Nov 24, 2011 | 3 comments View Post
University Study Finds That the Number of Federal Food Aid Recipients Has Skyrocketed

University Study Finds That the Number of Federal Food Aid Recipients Has Skyrocketed

Blacks are far more likely than whites to receive supplemental nutritional assistance.

Nov 06, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
The Racial Gap in College Student Graduation Rates

The Racial Gap in College Student Graduation Rates

For black students who matriculated in the fall of 2004, only 43 percent earned their degree within six years.

Oct 29, 2011 | 3 comments View Post
Where African Americans With Scientific Doctorates Find Work

Where African Americans With Scientific Doctorates Find Work

Blacks with scientific doctorates are more likely than similarly educated whites to work in academia while whites are more likely than blacks to work in the corporate world.

Oct 16, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
Retention, Not Recruitment, Is the Major Problem in Efforts to Have More Minority Teachers

Retention, Not Recruitment, Is the Major Problem in Efforts to Have More Minority Teachers

Black and other minority teachers are more likely to leave the profession than other teachers.

Oct 15, 2011 | 3 comments View Post
The Persisting Racial Gap on the SAT College Entrance Examination

The Persisting Racial Gap on the SAT College Entrance Examination

Since 1988, the racial gap on the reading and mathematics sections of the SAT has increased from 189 points to 208 points.

Sep 23, 2011 | 1 comment View Post
The Huge Racial Gap in Poverty Rates

The Huge Racial Gap in Poverty Rates

There were 731,000 more blacks living in poverty in 2010 than was the case in 2009.

Sep 23, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
The Racial Gender Gap in U.S. Dental Schools

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 View Post
The Widening Racial Gap in ACT Scores

The Widening Racial Gap in ACT Scores

In 2011, 223,000 African American high school seniors took the American College Testing Program’s ACT college entrance examination. This is an increase of 47 percent from 2007. While there was a slight improvement from last year’s average score of 16.9, this year’s score is exactly the same average score that black students achieved in 2007. For whites the average ACT score in 2007 was 22.6. By 2011 the average white score had improved a full point to 23.6.

Sep 01, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
Racial Disparity Found in Approvals of Grants by the National Institutes of Health

Racial Disparity Found in Approvals of Grants by the National Institutes of Health

A new study led by Donna K. Ginther found that black scientists were 13 percentage points less likely than white scientists to win grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Sep 01, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
African-American Progress in Dental School Enrollments Hits a Wall

African-American Progress in Dental School Enrollments Hits a Wall

After significant improvements in black enrollments at U.S. dental schools, the progress has halted. In the 2009-10 academic year, blacks remained stuck at 5.7 percent of all dental school enrollments, unchanged from 2005.

Sep 01, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
Black Freshman Enrollments Are Up 8 Percent at the University of South Carolina: But the Record Over the Past Decade Is Poor

Black Freshman Enrollments Are Up 8 Percent at the University of South Carolina: But the Record Over the Past Decade Is Poor

Black freshman enrollments at the University of South Carolina are up about 8 percent from a year ago, when 287 black freshmen enrolled. While African Americans make up 28 percent of the college-age population in South Carolina, blacks make up only 7 percent of the first-year enrollments at the state’s flagship university.

Sep 01, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
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