Read a feature article from Issue No. 48 (Summer 2005):

Black Faculty at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities --- In all but a few cases, the nation's highest-ranked colleges have made only slight progress in increasing the percentage of blacks on their faculties. At the current rate of improvement, it will be a century or more before the black percentages of the faculties of these institutions mirror the black percentage of the American work force.

The Racist Past of the American Psychology Establishment --- In 1997 the American Psychological Association announced that it would bestow its most prestigious honor on Raymond Cattell. But charges of racism in Cattell's past led to an investigation. Before the investigation could be completed, Cattell requested that his name be withdrawn from consideration for the award. Here a prominent psychologist, one of three professionals who brought the allegations of racism to the APA, discusses the merits of the case against Cattell.

Other features from this issue:

• HOW AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TOOK HOLD AT HARVARD, YALE, AND PRINCETON, Jerome Karabel

• TOKENS AND TRIUMPHS: 2005 HONORARY DEGREE AWARDS FOR BLACKS

• THE EIGHT GOP SENATORS WHO DECLINED TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE SENATE'S HISTORICAL FAILURE TO ENACT ANTI-LYNCHING LEGISLATION

• RACISM HIDING BEHIND A Ph.D.: A ROGUE'S GALLERY OF ACADEMIC RACIALISTS

• WHEN EDUCATION WAS SEEN AS PROPER REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY, Mary Frances Berry

• THE FIRST BLACK MIDSHIPMAN AT THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, Robert J. Schneller Jr

• HOW RACIAL CONSERVATIVES CURTAIL BLACK OPPORTUNITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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