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.
Study Finds Black STEM Students Who Look “Stereotypically Black” Are Less Likely to Graduate
A recent study led by scholars at Rice University found that Asian students who looked more stereotypically Asian, were significantly more likely to finish their degree over the five-year period. However, the opposite was true for Black students.
New Data Shows Bar Passage Rates at HBCU Law Schools Lag the National Average
Nationwide, 88.6 percent of all 2016 law school graduates passed bar exams within two years. None of the six law schools at historically Black universities had a bar passage rate that exceeded the national average. Southern University in Louisiana and Texas Southern University had the highest rates among HBCU law schools.
Compounded Privilege in White Neighborhoods Is the Real Driver for Economic Inequality
The results of a study conducted by a sociologist at the University pf Pittsburgh show that public policies need to address how opportunities for success are hoarded in privileged spaces, allowing advantaged, predominantly White communities to thrive.
Study Finds Severe Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution and Who Breathes It
The researchers found that air pollution is disproportionately caused by the consumption of goods and services by White Americans, but disproportionately inhaled by Black and Hispanic Americans.
New York University Study Finds Proactive Policing of Black Youth May Be Counterproductive
According to a new study led by scholars New York University, Black adolescent boys who are stopped by police report more frequent engagement in delinquent behavior thereafter. The research also demonstrates that police stops have a negative impact on these adolescents’ psychological well-being.
Racial Gaps in School Discipline Linked to Level of Implicit Racial Bias Among Local...
According to a new report by psychologists at Princeton University in New Jersey, there is a correlation between counties where the population has demonstrated a high-level of racial bias and large racial gaps in school discipline rates.
Howard University Doctoral Student Discovers New Information About the Diet of Enslaved Africans
By analyzing the soil at the African Burial Ground in New York City, Carter Clinton, the 2017-2018 Just Julian Scholar at Howard University, discovered a high level of strontium in the soil, which indicated a diet heavy with vegetables.
Early School Interventions Can Reduce the Need for Disciplinary Actions With Young Black Males
According to a new study led by researchers at Stanford University, brief exercises that address middle school students’ worries about belonging can help young Black males develop better relationships with teachers and sharply reduce their risk of being disciplined years into the future.
Black Male Athletes Make Up a High Percentage of Black Male Enrollments in Power...
The report notes that currently, Black men represent less than 10 percent of total full-time, undergraduate male degree seekers at nearly all of the colleges in each of the Power Five conferences.
Survey Examines Racial Differences in Who Pays for College
A survey conducted for LendEDU examines the percentages of college students who pay for all or some of their education. In what may come as a surprise to many readers, when the data was broken down by race, there are only small differences between Blacks and Whites.
Black Role Models Play a Large Role in STEM Retention Rates for African American...
According to the research, Black women earn only 2.9 percent of all STEM bachelor's degrees in the United States. This is far below the rate of White women, despite the fact that White women and Black women are equally likely to express an interest in STEM fields at the beginning of their college careers.
Study Finds African-Americans More Likely Than Whites to Have Less Wealth Than Their Parents
The racial wealth gap can play a significant role in access to quality higher education. Components of family wealth, such as stocks, bonds, money in the bank, and real estate, produce interest, dividends, or rental income which are commonly used to offset or pay college costs.
Predatory Lending Targeting Blacks Had Its Roots in the Antebellum South
Amanda Gibson, a Ph.D student at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has recently complied evidence that traces today's predatory financial practices to economic victimization of free and enslaved African-Americans in the pre-emancipation South.
Severely Depressed African-Americans are More Likely to be Misdiagnosed as Schizophrenic
The results found that clinicians failed to effectively weigh mood symptoms when diagnosing schizophrenia among African-Americans, suggesting that racial bias, whether conscious or subconscious, is one factor in the diagnosis of schizophrenia in this population.
Racial Student Achievement Gaps Have Remain Stagnant Over the Past 50 Years
While the Black-White achievement gap did narrow in the early decades of the period under study, it has remained stagnant for the past 25 years. Gains among 17-year-olds amounted to only 2 percent per decade, and none at all for the last quarter-century.
Report Finds African-American Youth With Autism Face More Challenges Than White Peers
Although autism occurs in children from all backgrounds, the impacts of autism are not felt equally across all groups. A new report from Drexel University finds that youth from poorer households have fewer options for services, fewer work experiences, and generally worse outcomes than youth from more affluent households.
Berkeley Study Finds Increasing Racial Segregation in Bay Area Housing
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found large increases in the number of low-income people of color living in newly segregated and higher-poverty areas over the 15-year period at the beginning of this century.
The Stubborn Racial Gap in Degree Attainment Rates in the United States
For Black students who entered postsecondary education in the 2011-112 academic year, 9.5 percent earned an associate's degree and 22.7 percent were awarded a bachelor's degree by the Spring of 2017.
The Gender Gap in African American Educational Attainment
Black women hold a significant edge over Black men in degree attainments at all levels. Black women hold a huge lead in master’s degrees. In 2018, there were 1,185,000 Black women who held a master’s degree but no higher degree. For Black men, the figure was 708,000.
Major New Report on the Status and Trends Relating to African American Education
Most of the information is contained in other federal reports, but the 228-page report is useful as it collects data on African American educational attainment at all levels in one place.
The Racial Gap in Educational Attainment in the United States
Well more than one third, 38.8 percent, of non-Hispanic Whites over the age of 25, have obtained at least a bachelor’s degree. For African American adults, 25.2 percent have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.
Why Are Black Students More Likely Than Whites to Leave STEM Majors in College?
The authors note that Black students in STEM classrooms "are subjected to specific stereotypes about their presumed inferior cognitive and mathematical ability" and in these classrooms "students must essentially prove that they deserve to stay."
African Americans Making Little Progress in College Sports Administration and Coaching
According to a recent report from the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida, Blacks are 45 percent of the football players in Division I but only 6.9 percent of the head football coaches. This was down from 7.7 percent in the prior year.
Study Finds the Vast Majority of Americans Say Race Should Not Be a Factor...
A new survey from the Pew Research Center has found that 73 percent of Americans believe that colleges and universities should not consider race or ethnicity when making admissions decisions. Only 7 percent say race should be a major factor in admissions and 19 percent say it should be a minor factor.
