Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African-American Scholars
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.
Archive for February, 2012
Feb 29, 2012 | 0 comments
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers
From time to time, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Feb 29, 2012 | 0 comments
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President Julianne Malveaux Announces She Is Leaving Bennett College in May
An economist, author, and educator, she has led Bennett College since 2007.
William R. Harvey Named to the Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society
He has been president of Hampton University in Virginia since 1978, one of the longest-tenured, sitting college presidents in the nation.
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 comments
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Columbia University Debuts Website With Digitized Images from Vast Scrapbook Collection
L.S. Alexander Gumby compiled 161 large scrapbooks documenting African American life in Harlem.
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 comments
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Three Finalists for Post at the Center for Black Culture & Research at West Virginia University
The three finalists vying for assistant director of the center are James Jackson, Curtis Proctor, and Maurice Gipson.
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 comments
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Martin Puryear to Design Slavery Memorial at Brown University
The project will recognize the historic ties of Brown University’s founders to the slave trade. The memorial will be located near the site of the university’s earliest buildings, some of which were built with the help of slave labor.
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 comments
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University of Virginia Unveils New Digitized Oral History Project of the Civil Rights Era
The recorded interviews of scores of attorneys and scholars who were active in the civil rights movement were conducted in the 1980s and are now available online.
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 comments
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Racial Differences in Seeking Out Mental Health Services for Young College Graduates
Young adult Blacks are significantly less likely than their White peers to utilize mental health services. The racial disparity is especially pronounced for young Blacks with a college education.
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 comments
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University Study Finds That Black Children Are Diagnosed With Autism Later Than White Children
The authors state that the discrepancy is probably due to unequal access to quality healthcare and a possible reluctance of Black parents to accept a diagnosis of autism.
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 comments
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Michigan State Professor Finds Racial Disparity in Military Death Sentences
The study, which included research on murders of military personnel from 1984 to 2005, showed that of the 16 men who have been sentenced to death, 10 are minorities.
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 comments
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Research on HBCUs Wins Outstanding Dissertation Award
Tryan L. McMickens, who teaches at Suffolk University in Boston, was honored by the PDK International Foundation.
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Southern University Foundation Receives the Largest Gift in Its History
The HBCU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, received the gift from the estate of a couple who first met on the Southern University campus.
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 comments
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Johnson C. Smith University Overhauls Its Liberal Studies Program
The goal of the change is to make students more attractive to employers once they graduate from college.
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 comments
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Obama Campaign Seeks College Student Volunteers on HBCU Campuses
In the coming months, Obama campaign staffers are planning to visit the campuses of 28 historically Black colleges and universities in an effort to recruit volunteers and organize efforts to turn out the vote.
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 comments
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Deryl Bailey Named to Endowed Visiting Professorship at Seattle University
A member of the faculty at the University of Georgia, he will spend the remainder of the academic year as the Allen Boeing Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Education at Seattle University.
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 comments
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The New Dean of the Graduate College at Hampton University
Patrena N. Benton was the assistant vice president for academic affairs and director of the Edwin P. McCabe Honors Program at Langston University in Oklahoma.
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 comments
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Seven African Americans Who Will Be Taking on New Duties
Here is news of seven new appointments of African Americans to posts in the academic arena.
Feb 24, 2012 | 2 comments
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Faculty at Coppin State Approves No Confidence Resolution Regarding the University’s President
According to published reports, 55 faculty members voted for the no confidence motion and only 13 faculty members opposed the resolution.
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 comments
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Racial Incident at Purdue University
Someone defaced a photograph of a late African American Purdue faculty member with a racial slur.
Feb 24, 2012 | 3 comments
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Good News on Educational Attainments
One in five adult African Americans over the age of 25 are now college educated. There has been tremendous progress, but a significant racial gap remains.
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 comments
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Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Two Black Scholars Slated to Win Prestigious Awards
Harriet Hamilton will be honored by the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports and Osei K. Darkwa by the World Education Congress.
Feb 23, 2012 | 0 comments
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New Scholarship Program for Minority Pre-Med Students at Christopher Newport University
Minorities, low-income students, and students from rural or medically underserved areas with a 3.5 GPA in high school and 1100 score on the SAT will be eligible.
Feb 23, 2012 | 0 comments
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers
From time to time, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 comments
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Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African-American Scholars
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.
Highly Educated People No More Likely to Support Affirmative Action Than Their Less-Educated Peers
A study by Geoffrey T. Wodtke of the University of Michigan finds that well-educated Whites and Blacks support affirmative action in the labor market at the same level as Whites and Blacks with lower levels of education.
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 comments
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Supreme Court to Revisit Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Most observers believe the Court deciding this case is more conservative than the one that narrowly approved limited race-sensitive admissions in 2003.
Feb 21, 2012 | 0 comments
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After More Than a Century, W.E.B. Du Bois Is Named to a Faculty Post at Penn
Despite a Ph.D. from Harvard and groundbreaking research on sociology and race in the final years of the nineteenth century, W.E.B. Du Bois was not offered a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania.
In Memoriam: Marcellus Brooks (1941-2012)
Brooks spent his entire professional career at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Feb 20, 2012 | 0 comments
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Hazel O’Leary to Retire From Presidency of Fisk University
She was the first woman and first African American to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Feb 20, 2012 | 0 comments
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Vanderbilt Establishes Digital Archive of Slave Records From Spanish Societies in the New World
Researchers captured more than 150,000 images, comprising more than 750,000 ecclesiastical records of African and African descended individuals from Brazil, Cuba, and Spanish Florida.
Feb 17, 2012 | 0 comments
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In Memoriam: Willie M. Burnett (1941-2012)
His career at the Tuskegee University Office of Alumni Affairs spanned more than 40 years.
Feb 17, 2012 | 3 comments
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Historically Black Central State University in Ohio Is Seeking Land-Grant Status
The designation of land-grant status would allow Central State to apply for federal agriculture research funds and for construction funds reserved for land-grant institutions.
Feb 16, 2012 | 0 comments
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Ray Charles Foundation Seeks the Return of $3 Million Given to Albany State University
The foundation says the gifts, which were given a decade ago, were for the sole purpose of building a performing arts center that would be named for Ray Charles.
Feb 16, 2012 | 0 comments
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Howard University Yearbook Honored in National Competition
The yearbook won the first place award in the American Scholastic Press Association’s national yearbook competition.
Feb 16, 2012 | 0 comments
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