
New Director of the Black Culture Center at Indiana University
Stephanie Power-Carter is an associate professor at the School of Education.
Stephanie Power-Carter is an associate professor at the School of Education.
Study finds a decline in residential segregation in all 394 U.S. metro areas.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson and Barrymoore Bogues will spend the year at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
The father of presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, Dr. Bowman was the first African-American tenured faculty member in the biological sciences at the University of Chicago.
He will also teach English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis provides online access to 5,000 issues of Indianapolis’ black newspaper.
Marie Chisholm-Burns will assume her new role at the beginning of 2012.
Tiya Miles and Roland Fryer are among the 22 winners of MacArthur Foundation Fellowships.
About 40 students are expected to enroll next year. By 2017 the university hopes enrollments will reach 150 students.
Michele Minter was vice president for development at The College Board.
According to The College Board, whites are more than three times as likely as blacks to be ready for the academic rigors of college.
Black pitchers compensate by throwing more pitches in the middle of the strike zone, pitches that are easier for batters to hit.
Here is news of eight appointments of African Americans to positions in higher education.
By 2020, the official estimate is that there will be 3.6 million African Americans enrolled in higher education.
The large and stagnant income gap between black and white families remains for African Americans a major barrier to equal access to higher education in this country.
Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics admits his “arguments may have been flawed and not supported by the available evidence.”
Dr. Toni Miles was a professor at the University of Louisville.
Non-Hispanic whites receive nearly three-fifths of all financial aid grants.
Jackee Budesta Batanda will also work with journalists at two major American newspapers during her seven-month fellowship.
A $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education provides scholarships for up to 50 graduate students in biology and mathematics.
“If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House. There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.” – U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, […]
Survey finds that many minority children in the United States feel socially stigmatized in grade school and the resulting anxiety effects their academic performance.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
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 […]
The gallery will feature local and national artists and works from the university’s permanent collection.
Since 1988, the racial gap on the reading and mathematics sections of the SAT has increased from 189 points to 208 points.
There were 731,000 more blacks living in poverty in 2010 than was the case in 2009.
In 2008, the University of Wisconsin at Madison admitted 71.8 percent of black applicants and 59.3 percent of white applicants.
“By continuing to strengthen HBCUs, we ensure they remain beacons of hope for future generations of Americans who will move our country closer to the ideals of our founding.” – President Barack Obama, proclaiming September 18-24 as National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week
The search for a permanent director of the Africana Studies and Research Center comes up empty.
The group had been based at the University of Delaware for 40 years.
The HBCU will now offer Chinese language courses in cooperation with the Confucius Institute at North Carolina State University.
The African Presidential Scholars Program at the University of Michigan brings a group of African academics to campus each year to teach and conduct research.The stated goals of the program are to help the next generation of African scholars link up with international academic networks and to bring talented African faculty to the University of […]