Racial Differences in the Road to the Doctoral Degree
For recent doctoral degree recipients, African Americans took longer than Whites to earn their doctoral degree. On average, Blacks tended to accumulate more debt and used their own resources to fund their doctoral studies more than Whites.
University Study Examines How Racial Bias Seeps Into Jury Deliberations
A study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Santa Cruz finds that White men tend to be the most influential figures in jury deliberations.
Ranking the HBCUs on the Debt Levels of Their Graduates
The average debt level of college graduates in 2013 was $28,400. But some HBCUs are among the schools where students have the lowest average debt and some are among the schools with the highest debt level for graduating students.
A Look at Current School Desegregation Orders in the United States
The ProPublica data shows that Mississippi continues to have more open desegregation orders with 61 school districts under court order or voluntary agreement with the Department of Education. Alabama ranks second and Georgia is third.
Fast Food Consumption May Negatively Impact Academic Performance
The relationship between fast food and academic success is of particular importance to African American families as previous studies have shown young Blacks consume fast food more often than young Whites.
Perceptions of People Referred to as “Black” Compared to “African American”
A new study led by Erika V. Hall, an assistant professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, finds that people identified as "Black" are viewed more negatively than individuals referred to as "African American."
Examining the Roots of Racial Disparities in School Discipline
New research led by scholars at the School of Education at Indiana University in Bloomington shows that deep-seated racial biases contribute to widespread racial disparities in school discipline.
University Study Examines Racial Disparities in the Pittsburgh Area
The Center on Race and Social Problems at the School of Social Work of the University of Pittsburgh has issued a new report on racial disparities in the metropolitan region surrounding the university.
New Research May Ease Suffering of Sickle Cell Disease Patients
While people of any race can have the sickle-cell trait, the disease is far more common among African Americans than it is among Whites. A new device may be able to notify doctors when painful incidents brought about by sickle cells being trapped in blood vessels are likely to occur.
Nearly 6 Million Living African Americans Hold a Four-Year College Degree
In 2014, nearly 6 million living African American now hold at least a four-year college degree. The data shows that 179,000 African Americans in 2014 held a professional degree and 206,000 had obtained a doctorate.
The Gender Gap in African American Degree Attainment
The gender gap is most pronounced for holders of master's degrees. In 2014, there were 964,000 Black women who held a master's degree but no higher degree. For Black men, the figure was 565,000.
Report Finds That Women of Color in Science Face Both Gender and Racial Bias
Of the 60 women of color in STEM fields in the survey, all 60 women stated that they had been subjected to some sort of gender bias. In having to prove their competence to others, most of the Black women stated that race was more of a barrier than gender.
How Altruism Impacts Minority Students’ Academic and Career Paths in STEM Fields
A new university study finds that students from underrepresented minority groups are more likely to pursue courses of study and careers in the biosciences if they believe that pursuing this life path will help them solve problems in their communities.
Research Uncovers Racial Differences in Faculty Salaries at Berkeley
While the percentage differences in faculty pay are small, the report states that "the average salary difference between White men and minority faculty members is equivalent to about 1 to 2 years of career experience.”
Studying the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates
The authors compared U.S. infant mortality rates to those in two European countries. They found that the reason infant mortality is lower in Europe is simply because these countries take better care of their low-income citizens than is the case in the United States.
A Statistical Portrait of First-Year Students at Black Colleges and Universities
This nationwide survey prepared by UCLA compares current first-year students in terms of characteristics such as family income, grades in high school, future goals, study habits, political views, and social activities.
New Study Says Racial Lynchings Have Been Underestimated
The report from the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, says that in the 1877-to-1950 period, at least 3,959 Black people were killed in "racial terror lynchings." This is 700 more than has been documented in previous reports.
Report Finds Wide Racial Disparity in School Discipline of Girls
According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education cited in the report, nationally Black girls were suspended six times more than White girls. Rates of expulsion were even more strikingly disproportionate.
Report Finds Black Students Like Mathematics More Than White Students
A new report from the U.S. Department of Educations shows that Black men and Black women liked the study of mathematics in high school more so than their White peers.
Study Finds Increased Racial Segregation of Law School Students
The study found that Black students were more likely to enroll in less selective law schools in 2013 than they were in 2010 and were less likely to enroll in highly selective law schools than they were in 2010.
New Study Finds That the Great Migration Negatively Impacted Black Mortality Rates
While the Great Migration provided millions of Blacks with better educational and economic opportunities, a new study finds that it also led to increase mortality rates for African Americans.
Stanford University Study Finds Large Racial Gap in 401(k) Assets
The wealth gap has a significant impact on Blacks being able to afford the costs of higher education. A new study by researchers at Stanford University shows that the racial wealth gap will probably be with us for some time to come.
Blacks Are Twice as Likely as Whites to Be Early High School Dropouts
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education reports on the number of students who were in ninth grade in 2009 but dropped out of high school by the end of their junior year.
Comparing the Health Status of Foreign-Born and Native-Born Blacks
A new study finds that while foreign-born Blacks tend to have better overall health than African Americans born in the United States, the advantage tends to shrink the longer foreign-born Blacks live in this country.
The Growing Racial Gap in Home Ownership
Many American families use the equity in their home to finance the higher education of their children or grandchildren. But this source of family wealth is far less available to Black families and the racial gap is widening.
University of Wisconsin Documents a Lack of Racial Diversity in Children’s Books
In 2014, there were about 5,000 books published for children and teens. The survey found that 84 were written by African Americans and 180 were about African Americans.
Children Raised in Single-Parent Homes Are Less Likely to Complete College
For young adults who have reached the age of 24, those who grew up in single-parent homes were less likely to have obtained a bachelor's degree than children raised in married-couple households. Income differences explain only one half of the gap.
A Report Card on Racial Diversity in College Athletics
The scorecard, compiled by researchers at the University of Central Florida, gave a grade of C-plus to racial diversity in college's sport programs, down from a grade of B-minus in 2013.
Two-Year Minority-Serving Institutions Linger in the Shadows of Higher Education Research
There are 248 two-year institutions eligible for the designation of minority serving institution. These institutions make up 22 percent of the 1,132 community colleges nationwide.
UCLA Study Examines the Racial Disparity in School Discipline
The report found that the largest racial gap in school suspensions in the elementary grades is in Missouri. For secondary school students, the largest racial gap in suspensions is in Wisconsin.
An Elite College Degree Does Not Shield Blacks From Employment Discrimination
African Americans who graduate from high-ranking colleges and universities have little or no advantage in the job market over White students who graduate from educational institutions that are not as highly regarded.
University Study Finds Gender and Sexual Identity Differences in Openness to Interracial Dating
A new study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Texas finds White straight males and White lesbians are more open to interracial dating than White gay men and White straight women.
The Large Racial Gap in Graduate School Enrollments in STEM Fields
In 2012, Blacks were a very small percentage of the overall graduate student population in many STEM disciplines. For example, there were only eight Black students nationwide enrolled in graduate programs in astronomy, about 0.6 percent of total enrollments in the field.
Unemployment Rates of African Americans by Bachelor’s Degree Field
The percentage of African Americans with a bachelor’s degree who were unemployed in 2012 was 6.0 percent. Surprisingly, Blacks with bachelor’s degrees in computer science had a higher unemployment rate than college-educated African Americans generally.
HBCUs Play a Large Role in the Graduate Education of Blacks in STEM Fields
In pharmacology, 35 percent of Black students enrolled in graduate programs attend HBCUs. In biology, 32 percent of all Black graduate students are in programs at HBCUs.
University Study Finds Black Cancer Patients May Be Under-Diagnosed for Depression
A new study led by researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland examined the mental state of Black and White cancer patients at the Northeast Ohio Medical Center. They found that standard mental health tests may fail to identify depression among Black patients.
