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Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Liberal Arts Colleges

This year, Amherst College once again sits on top of the survey. There are 81 Black students in this year's entering class. They make up 17.2 percent of the first-year class.

Anti-Blackness in American Higher Education

Bakari Lumumba details how African American student college opportunities continue to be limited by structural disadvantages and systematic racism and how to contest them.

Hate Crimes on College Campuses and in Higher Education Spaces

Today’s college students of color are demanding safety, protection and accountability from their schools, administrators, politicians, and the country.

Four Black Women Among This Year’s 32 Rhodes Scholars From the U.S.

This year, four African Americans - all women - were chosen as Rhodes Scholars. Last year, there were three African Americans among the 32 scholars chosen from the U.S.

Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities

In 2004, only two of the nation’s highest-ranked universities had incoming classes that were more than 10 percent Black. This year there are seventeen with an entering class that is more than 10 percent Black.

Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Liberal Arts Colleges

We note that there appears to be a greater reluctance to divulge information about Black student acceptance rates. The recent litigation involving the admissions practices of Harvard University concerning Asian American students appears to have struck a nerve in higher education circles.

Bringing Brown v. Board of Education Out of Retirement

In 1954, a unanimous Supreme Court in the case Brown v. Board of Education called for the desegregation of public schools that were segregated as a matter of law. But Brown never became all that it could be.

Homeland Security & Emergency Management Studies: Where Are the HBCUs?

A well-trained, culturally diverse workforce, representing the breadth of racial and ethnic diversity, is needed to plan for, then deal with disasters and provide assistance after they occur.

One Quarter of the Latest Cohort of MacArthur Fellows Are Black

Of the latest cohort of 24 MacArthur fellows, it appears that six are Black. Three currently hold academic posts at colleges or universities.

Ten Black Students Selected as Truman Scholars

While the Truman Foundation does not provide data on the racial or ethnic make up of its Truman Scholars, after an analysis by JBHE, it appears that 10 of the 59 Truman Scholars this year are Black.

Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities

Over the past 25 years, the nation's highest-ranked research universities have made significant progress on the admission of Black students in their entering classes.

Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Liberal Arts Colleges

After a string of three first-place finishes, Amherst College dropped to second place in JBHE's 2016 survey of Black students in entering classes at the leading liberal arts college. This year Amherst is back on top.

Seven Black Scholars in the Latest Cohort of New Members of the National Academy of Medicine

An analysis of the list of the 70 members of the latest cohort elected into the National Academy of Medicine by JBHE finds that seven, or 10 percent, are Black.

Four African Americans Win Marshall Scholarships

The four African Americans among the 43 Marshall Scholars this year are in sharp contrast to the record of 10 African Americans who were among the 32 American students awarded Rhodes Scholarships this fall.

Ten African Americans Selected as Rhodes Scholars

In the past, the Rhodes Trust did not disclose the race or ethnicity of the scholars selected. But this year the Rhodes Trust stated in its press release that there were "10 African-Americans, the most ever elected in a U.S. Rhodes class."

Embracing our First Responder Role as Academics – With Inspiration From Langston Hughes

Amid a slew of American crises, academics who want to further equality in the land have a very critical and continuing role as first responders.

Turning the Tide of Segregation: The Legacy of the Law School at South Carolina State College

During the Jim Crow era, southern states established segregated graduate and professional schools so that they would not have to admit Blacks to predominantly White educational institutions.

Eight African Americans Named Truman Scholars

While the Truman Foundation does not release data on the racial and ethnic make up of their scholars, an analysis of this year's class of 62 Truman Scholars, concludes that it appears that eight are African Americans.

Academic Hunger Games: HBCUs in a Fight for Survival

John M. Rudley, president emeritus of Texas Southern University in Houston, examines the current leadership crisis that is impacting many of the nation's historically Black colleges and universities.

Incoming Fire from All Directions: Microaggressions Faced by Students and Faculty of Color

Faculty of color must manage themselves, encourage their students and promote learning in sometimes less than ideal social climates.
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