Does Rising Neighborhood Diversity Lead to a Drop in Social Capital?
Some researchers suggest that social capital may decline because people retreat into their shells when faced with rising diversity — rejecting newcomers but also pulling back on engagement with people of their own ethnic group in an effort to shelter themselves.
New Report Finds Residential Segregation Remains Rampant in the United States
The Center for American Progress reports that significant disparities still exist between African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites in terms of access to homeownership. This, in turn, hinders the ability of African American families to send their children to quality public schools.
The Economic and Educational Status of African Americans a Year After Earning a Bachelor’s...
The median income of recent African American college graduates was $36,000. For Whites, the median income was $40,000. This income gap for recent college graduates is far narrower than the overall Black-White income gap. This shows the value of higher education in reducing income equality.
Study Finds Bans on Race-Sensitive College Admissions Had Impact on Public Health
Overall, self-reported rates of smoking among underrepresented minority 11th and 12th graders increased by 3.8 percentage points in the same years each of the states discussed, passed, and implemented the bans, compared to those living in states with no bans.
Black Children Are Less Likely to Receive Bystander CPR Than White Children After Cardiac...
The results found that a total of 3,399 children, or 48 percent of the total number of recorded cardiac arrests, received bystander CPR. When compared to White children, bystander CPR was 41 percent less likely for Black youth.
New Report Examines the Racial Makeup of Private Schools in the United States
Black students accounted for 9.3 percent of all private school students in the United States. This is a far lower percentage than the Black percentage of all students in the nation's public school systems. African Americans accounted for 18.5 percent of students at schools that served special education students.
Study Finds Lack of Black Tenured Faculty at All Levels of Higher Education
The results of the study, led by a dean at the University of Kentucky, found that only 4.05 percent of tenured faculty at doctoral level institutions are Black. In fact, racial diversity among tenured faculty continues to lag across all levels of higher education.
Census Bureau Offers New Data on Population and Age for African Americans
The statistics show that between 2010 and 2018, the median age of the U.S. population increased by one year from 37.2 to 38.2. The median age of African Americans increased by 1.4 years, a larger increase than for the population as a whole.
HBCUs Exceed Expectations When it Comes to Black Enrollment and Graduation Rates
For an example, in Florida, HBCUs represent just 4 percent of the state's four-year college and universities, but enroll 9 percent of all Black undergraduates and award 18 percent of bachelor's degrees to Black graduates.
Report Reveals Underrepresentation of Students from Minority Serving Institutions in Study Abroad
The report offers insight into the challenges facing students who want to study abroad including barriers of cost, culture, and curriculum.
Level of Education Impacts How Often People Discuss Racial Issues
College-educated Blacks and Whites are more likely to discuss relations than their less-educated peers. But for college-educated adults, Blacks are more likely than Whites to say they talk at least sometimes about race relations by a margin of 79 percent to 59 percent.
Nationwide Study Finds Major Racial Gap in School Suspensions and Expulsions
The study offers a comprehensive look at racial disparities in school discipline involving expulsion or suspension from school at secondary educational institutions throughout the United States. The study examined disciplinary records involving nearly 16,000 middle schools and more than 18,000 high schools all across the country.
Academic Study Finds Companies Target African Americans With Ads for Unhealthy Foods
The study led by scholars at the University of Connecticut found that unhealthy food advertising targeting Black audiences increased by more than 50 percent between 2013 and 2017. Overall television food advertising declined by 4 percent during the period.
U.S. Census Bureau Releases Its First-Ever Report on Male Fertility
Some of the datat on male fertility is broken down by race. For example, for men between the ages of 40 and 50, 26.8 percent of Whites had never had a child, compared to 19.5 percent of Blacks. In this same age group, 15.3 percent of White men had never been married, compared to 31.4 percent of Black men.
Study Finds Black Students in Charter Schools Are More Likely to Have a Black...
The issue of charter schools has become a hot topic in the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nominating process. Previous studies that show students of color perform better academically when they have a teacher of the same race or ethnic group. A new report says this is more likely to occur in charter schools.
Faculty From Underrepresented Groups Bear the Brunt of the Work on Diversity Initiatives
The research, led by scholars from Colorado State University, found that non-White faculty recruited minority faculty, engaged in outreach to diverse K-12 schools and served on diversity committees more frequently than non-Hispanic White faculty.
Oklahoma State Scholar Says Artificial Intelligence Can Eliminate Bias in the Hiring Process
The research finds that using machine decision-making through artificial intelligence (AI) can remove unconscious bias and “noise” from the hiring and promotion process and begin making the workplace reflect a diverse society.
Report Finds Severe Racial Disparity in Student Loan Debt
A new report from Demos, a nonprofit progressive research and advocacy organization based in New York, found that om average Black women borrowers see their student loan balances grow by an additional 13 percent in the 12 years after they began college and over half of Black male borrowers default on their loans in the same period.
Study Finds Significant Racial Bias in Hiring Biology and Physics Faculty
The results showed that the physics professors rated Asian and White candidates as more competent and hireable than Black candidates. In biology, similar racial disparities were seen.
Study Finds Black Principals Increase the Hiring and Retention Rates of Black Teachers
Researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville found that Black principals have more success in hiring diverse faculty because they have access to different networks to find diverse teachers and are able to attract qualified Black teachers who prefer to work for Black principals.
Study Finds Blacks With a College Education Are More Likely to Experience Racial Discrimination
The survey found that the majority of all African American respondents reported experiencing discrimination at some point in their life. However, this exposure to discrimination was more pronounced among African Americans with at least some college experience
One-Time Diversity Training Programs Are Ineffective in Changing Behavior, Study Finds
The researchers found that although the after-training survey results were positive, the participants behavior in the following months did not change very much, particularly among men and White people. Additionally, very few senior level executives were willing to participate in the training.
Study Finds Historically Redlined Communities Have Higher Rates of Asthma
The results found that residents of redlined neighborhoods visited the emergency room for asthma-related complaints 2.4 times more often than residents of green neighborhoods. Measures of diesel particulate matter in the air also averaged nearly twice as high in redlined neighborhoods compared to green neighborhoods.
Large Increases in Black Undergraduate Enrollment But Not at the Most Selective Institutions
Black student enrollment has increased from 10 percent to 13 percent at public four-year institutions, from 13 percent to 14 percent at private, nonprofit four-year institutions, from 13 percent to 15 percent at public two-year institutions, and from 21 percent to 28 percent at private for-profit schools.
Increases in Government Contracting Lead to Lower African American Employment Opportunities
According to a new study from the University of Georgia, when governments contract work out to private companies, it leads to decreases in workforce diversity, most noticeably in African American and women participation in top-level positions.
Study Finds Hairstyles Historically Associated With Black Women Are Perceived as Less Professional
According to a new study by Dove's CROWN Coalition (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair), Black women report being 30 percent...
65 Years After Brown: America’s Public Schools Remain Racially Segregated
According to a new report from The Civil Rights Project at UCLA, White students, on average, attend a school in which 69 percent of students are White. Black students, who account for 15 percent of enrollment, as they did in 1970, attend schools that on average have Black enrollments of 47 percent.
Family Income Is a Better Predictor of Success for Young Students Than Academic Achievement
According to a new report, children who come from affluent backgrounds and have low school test scores are more likely than their less-affluent peers with high test scores to be in the highest quartile of socioeconomic status by the age of 25.
Study Finds Persistence of Stereotypical Negative Images of Black Women in Tech
The report notes that in 1995, Black women accounted for 5.10 percent of all bachelor's degree in computer science. By 2014, this figure had dropped to 2.61 percent. In 2012, 70 percent of all bachelor's degrees awarded to African Americans in computer science went to men.
New Report Offers Strategies for Preserving the Future of HBCUs
The report describes the challenges facing HBCUs today and offers possible solutions to these challenges. First and foremost, sustaining and growing student enrollment is the key to a brighter future.
UNCF Report Calls for Reforms in the Accreditation Process for HBCUs
Since 2000, four HBCUs who were members of the UNCF have lost accreditation. In addition, nine of the 37 private HBCUs that comprise UNCF membership — almost a quarter — were sanctioned between 2015 and 2018. About one third of all institutions sanctioned in 2017 and 2018 were HBCUs.
Researchers Find Nonwhite Children Are More Likely to Be Mistreated at the Dentist
The results of a study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found that Whites were 2.26 times more likely to have reported positive dental experiences, while upsetting incidents were much more common among low-income and non-White families.
Graduate Student Union Report Condemns Lack of Success in Faculty Diversity at Yale
A new report from the graduate student union at Yale University states that in 2005, there were 25 black tenured and tenure-track professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Twelve years, after two major faculty diversity initiatives, that number grew to 26.
Obstacles Faced by Mixed-Raced Couples in Finding Housing in Areas With Quality Schools
A study by scholars at Brigham Young University and Georgia State University finds that parents in mixed race families where one partner is Black, struggle to find communities that are both racially diverse and affluent enough to give their children the educational resources they need.
Study Finds African-American “Helicopter Parents” Are Concerned for Their Sons’ Safety
The study lead by researchers at the University of Central Florida found that African American mothers share many traits with "helicopter parents" when it comes to being overprotective and hyper-vigilant about their children's lives, especially the lives of their sons.
Colleges and Universities That Engage in “Authentic” Diversity Practices
There has been extensive research on organizational diversity initiatives that focus on either the number of minorities at a particular institution or the racial climate. This study evaluates these two concepts together, which helps determine if colleges and universities engage in "authentic" diversity practices.
