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Read a feature article from Issue No. 51 (Spring 2006): |
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JBHE Completes Its Count of Black Students and Faculty at the Nation's 50 Flagship State Universities --- Five years ago JBHE reported on the progress of our nation's flagship state universities in enrolling black students and hiring black faculty. We now revisit the issue and have found a somewhat mixed bag of results in black student enrollments and a generally encouraging trend in black faculty levels. How State Bans on Race-Sensitive Admissions Have Damaged Black Enrollments in Professional Schools --- Despite the favorable ruling by the Supreme Court in the Grutter case reaffirming universities' consideration of race in admissions decisions, state bans on race-sensitive admissions continue to have a devastating effect on black opportunities for professional education. | |
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• FIVE BLACKS NAMED GOLDWATER SCHOLARS • BLACK AND BLUE IN NEW HAVEN: MEMOIRS OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AT YALE IN THE LATE 1960s, Phillip M. Richards • THE "SILENCING" OF EARLY BLACK CADETS AT WEST POINT • BECOMING A DOCTOR WAS NO EASY TASK FOR A BLACK MAN IN THE 1950s, LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. • NOTES ON A WHITE WOMAN AT A BLACK COLLEGE, Vaishali Honawar • PRESERVATIONISTS LOOK TO PROTECT A PIECE OF CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY | |
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(To read these articles, subscribe to the print version of JBHE) JBHE Past Issues — Features
• Issue No. 50 – Winter 2005/2006 |
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