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JBHE Study Shows Significant Increase in Black Freshmen at the Nation's Highly Ranked Colleges and Universities --- A report by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education finds that enrollment of black freshmen at the nation's highly ranked universities and liberal arts colleges continues to rise. Combined, the number of black freshmen at these institutions has increased by nearly 10 percent since 1994. The Widening Racial Scoring Gap on Standardized Tests for Admission to Graduate School --- On all of the standardized tests for admission to graduate and professional schools, the racial scoring gap is large and in many cases wider than the gap between blacks and whites on the ACT and SAT standardized tests for undergraduate admissions. In all cases the gap on these graduate admissions tests has remained unchanged or widened in recent years. Alice Carlotta Jackson: She Was the First Black Applicant to the University of Virginia --- The racial history of higher education in the state of Virginia may be characterized largely by traditional separate but equal policies and practices. These policies remained unchallenged until 1935 when Alice Carlotta Jackson, a black woman from Richmond, applied to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Black Women Students Far Outnumber Black Men at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Universities --- The wide gender gap that prevails at all stages of African-American higher education extends to the student bodies at our nation's highest-ranked universities. But in most cases the gap is smaller than the national average. | |
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• James Baldwin's Views on Education and the Economic Divide Between Whites and Blacks • No Progress Over the Past Seven Years in the Number of Black Students or Black Faculty at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Law Schools • Law Schools Are Under Pressure From U.S. News Rankings and That's Very Bad News for Blacks • The False Promise of Basketball as Young Blacks' Best Route Out of the Inner City • Black College Endowments Underperform the Funds of Their White Peers • Chaka Fattah: The Education Congressman • Storer College: It Was Here a Century Ago That the NAACP Took Its First Steps • Racial Differences in Leisure Activities of Highly Educated American Adults • A JBHE Report on Political Contributions Made by Faculty and Administrators at the Black Colleges • 50 Years Ago: Autherine Lucy Seeks to Enter the University of Alabama • Ranking Black Scholars by Citation Count in the Google Scholar and Google Books Databases • Many Blacks Win Student Elections at the Highest-Ranking and Predominantly White Universities • No Blacks Among the New Fellows Elected to the National Academy of Sciences • Large Group of Blacks Inducted Into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Four of the New Black Fellows Are Academics • Wendell Phillips: The Famed Orator of the Abolitionist Movement • University of Virginia Takes Further Steps to Open Its Campus to Black and Low-Income Students • Black Studies at Harvard Adds a Solid Core of New Black Faculty • Black Academics: Ebony Finally Sees the Light • The Senator Who Gave Us Clarence Thomas • Black Students at America's Most Conservative Colleges and Universities • The University of Texas Loses Its National Title When It Is Measured By Its Performance in Graduating Black Football Players • A Four-Year College Diploma Has a Potent Impact in the Struggle for Racial Equality • Affirmative Action Ban Continues to Inflict Severe Damage on Black Higher Educational Opportunities in California • The Bleak Educational Prospects for Haiti's Children • The Higher Education Credentials of the Most Powerful Black Women in Business
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