My Brother’s Keeper: Some Gaps That May Keep the Nation From Making Progress Among Males of Color
D. Jason DeSousa offers suggestions to strengthen the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force’s final report.
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Jul 23, 2014 | 6 comments
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Let’s Create a National Endowment for HBCUs
Professor Richard F. America calls for a national fundraising effort to strengthen historically Black colleges and universities well into the twenty-first century.
Jul 21, 2014 | 11 comments
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Healing Our Historically Black Colleges and Universities
HBCU Preservation Foundation’s Stan Ashemore asks, “Why are we not there for HBCUs now as they were for us so many years ago?”
Jun 19, 2014 | 11 comments
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Seven African American Scholars Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Through an analysis of the list of new fellows conducted by JBHE, it appears that 11 of the 188 new American members of the AAAS are African Americans. Thus, African Americans make up only 5.9 percent of the new members of the academy.
Nine African Americans Awarded Truman Scholarships
This year, 59 Truman scholars were selected from 655 candidates nominated by 294 colleges and universities. Of this year’s 59 Truman Scholars, it appears that nine are African Americans.
May 15, 2014 | 0 comments
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Rebranding HBCUs
Dr. Richard America offers his views on how historically Black colleges and universities can go about a transformation so that these higher education institutions can thrive in the twenty-first century.
May 08, 2014 | 12 comments
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A Treasure Trove of Historical Data on the History of Mental Illness Among African Americans
Professor King Davis of the University of Texas is seeking funding to finish a monumental task of making decades of archival information on Black mental illness available to researchers.
Feb 06, 2014 | 11 comments
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Harvard’s New Group of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows
Black scholars who are among the new group of fellows are Christopher Emdin, Shose Kessi, Achille Mbembe, Mark Anthony Neal, Wole Soyinka, and Deborah Willis.
Feb 05, 2014 | 0 comments
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HBCUs Come to the Big Apple
The Seventh Annual Big Apple Classic took place in New York City, pitting Virginia Union University against Virginia State University and Howard University against Delaware State University.
Dec 18, 2013 | 0 comments
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Three African Americans Win Rhodes Scholarships
The Rhodes Trust does not release data on the racial or ethnic identity of scholarship winners. But it appears that this year, three of the 32 Rhodes winners are African Americans.
Dec 05, 2013 | 0 comments
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Campus Lockdown Prompts Racist Reactions on Social Media
When a woman at Southwestern University falsely claimed she was raped by a Black man, there was a flood of unsavory reactions on social media.
Dec 05, 2013 | 7 comments
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Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities
Here is some very good news. For the 29 high-ranking universities for which we have data for both this year and last, 20 universities showed gains over last year in Black student first-year enrollments.
Nov 27, 2013 | 0 comments
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The Discouraging Trend in Graduation Rates at HBCUs
Prior research has shown that the major reason that Black students drop out of college is money. And many HBCUs, as well as the families who send their students to these schools, have faced difficult economic times.
Nov 26, 2013 | 14 comments
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Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Liberal Arts Colleges
For six of the last seven years, Amherst College in western Massachusetts has had the highest percentage of Black students in its entering class among the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges.
Nov 19, 2013 | 0 comments
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Six Black Scholars Join the Cornell University Faculty
The new faculty members are Christopher A. Alabi, Matthew Clayton, Eve De Rosa, Oneka LaBennett, Jamila Michener, and Olufemi Taiwo.
Nov 05, 2013 | 0 comments
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Racial Hatred and Higher Education
Racially-biased incidents, like the highly publicized occurrences at Oberlin College, may not be aberrational in America’s academic environments.
Sep 19, 2013 | 2 comments
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Leading With My Vitae
Dr. Candice Dowd Barnes details her efforts to gain her students’ respect and acknowledgment that she belonged in the front of the classroom.
Jul 22, 2013 | 7 comments
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Pedagogy and Trayvon Martin
Dr. Natasha C. Pratt-Harris explores how the Trayvon Martin case will impact her teaching this fall at Morgan State University.
Jul 21, 2013 | 4 comments
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13 Blacks Receive Honorary Degrees From Ivy League Schools
The eight Ivy League universities gave out 52 honorary degrees this commencement season. Of the 52 honorary degrees awarded this year at Ivy League schools, 13, or 25 percent, went to Blacks.
Ten Black Students Awarded Truman Scholarships
The Truman Scholarship Foundation, established by Congress in 1975, has announced 62 winners of Truman Scholarships for 2013. This year it appears that 10 of the 62 winners are African Americans.
Apr 25, 2013 | 2 comments
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One Black Woman’s Legacy of Higher Education
Haldane King Jr. relates how his grandmother fostered a legacy of higher education that has now spanned many generations.
Feb 28, 2013 | 9 comments
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Three African American Men Win Marshall Scholarships
The scholarships, funded by the British government, provide funds for up to two years of study for American students at a British university, and include money for travel, living expenses, and books.
A Statistical Portrait of First-Year Students at Black Colleges and Universities
Each year the characteristics and attitudes of first-year college students are surveyed by researchers at UCLA. We then make comparisons between all first-year students and just those at HBCUs.
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 comments
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Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities
For the sixth year in a row, Columbia University in New York City has the highest percentage of Black first-year students among the 30 highest-ranking universities in the nation.
Dec 17, 2012 | 4 comments
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Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Liberal Arts Colleges
Wesleyan University leads our rankings with 85 Black freshmen at the college this year (11.3 percent of the entering class).
Dec 06, 2012 | 4 comments
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Three African American Women Win Rhodes Scholarships
Among this year’s 32 American Rhodes Scholars are three African American women: Joy A. Buolamwini of Georgia Tech, Rhiana E. Gunn-Wright of Yale, and Nina M. Yancy of Harvard.
Nov 19, 2012 | 5 comments
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Five New Black Members of the Institute of Medicine
The new members are Norman Anderson of the American Psychological Association, John Carethers and Martin Philbert of the University of Michigan, PonJola Coney of Virginia Commonwealth University and Wayne Riley of Meharry Medical College.
Nov 07, 2012 | 0 comments
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Can HBCUs Compete?
Richard F. America, professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., offers strategies on how historically Black colleges and universities can compete in today’s world of higher education.
Oct 24, 2012 | 30 comments
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Pre-College Outreach Programs for Black Men
Dr. Jame’l R. Hodges and Dr. Terrell L. Strayhorn offer the results of their study on the effectiveness of Pre-College Outreach Programs for Black Men.
Aug 30, 2012 | 5 comments
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Honorary Degrees Awarded to Blacks in 2012 From the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Universities
This spring the nation’s 30 highest-ranked national universities awarded 22 honorary degrees to African Americans and other Black scholars.
Jun 26, 2012 | 0 comments
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Honorary Degrees Given to Blacks by Leading Liberal Arts Colleges in 2012
The nation’s highest-ranked liberal arts colleges gave out 16 honorary degrees to Blacks this spring. Last year only 12 Blacks received honorary degrees from this same group of liberal arts colleges.
Jun 01, 2012 | 0 comments
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Ten African Americans Named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Through an analysis of the list of new fellows conducted by JBHE, it appears that 10 of the 220 new members are Black. Thus, African Americans make up 4.5 percent of the new members.
May 01, 2012 | 0 comments
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A New Class of African American Truman Scholars
The Truman Foundation does not release data on the race or ethnicity of scholarship winners. But it appears that there are at least eight African Americans among the 54 new scholars this year.
Five Black Authors Among the Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards
But none of the five Black writers were selected as winners at the March 8 ceremony in New York City.
Feb 10, 2012 | 0 comments
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Tracking Graduation Rates at HBCUs
The student graduation rate at almost all historically Black colleges and universities is below 50 percent. And the trend is not encouraging.
Jan 05, 2012 | 39 comments
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Against All Odds: A Story of Tenacity, Hard Work, and Higher Education
Four teenage friends all became pregnant in high school. But they vowed that by supporting each other and through dedication to hard work and education, they would succeed. Soon they will all hold MBA degrees.
Dec 09, 2011 | 25 comments
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