The Many Challenges Facing Black Students Pursuing STEM Doctorates
The research team at the nonprofit RTI International found that Black STEM Ph.D. recipients are considerably more likely to earn their doctorate from a private for-profit institution and that they also take significantly longer to complete their degree and borrow substantially more for their graduate education.
Study Finds That Large Cities Foster Socioeconomic Segregation
The researchers used GPS data collected in 2017 from 9.6 million cellphones across 382 metropolitan areas in the United States to determine how often people of different socioeconomic statuses crossed paths during the day. They collected data on almost 1.6 billion path-crossings.
Scholars From Sub-Saharan African Nations Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities
There were 2,220 scholars from sub-Saharan African nations teaching at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2021-22 academic year. This was up nearly 50 percent from the prior year at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scholars from sub-Saharan African nations made up only 2.4 percent of all foreign scholars teaching in the United States that year.
After a Sharp Drop During the Pandemic, Young Black Students Return to School
In 2020, 40.9 of non-Hispanic Black children ages 3 and 4 were enrolled in school compared to 61.7 percent in 2022. Non-Hispanic Black children ages 3 and 4 were more likely to be enrolled in school in 2022 than similarly aged children in any other major racial or ethnic group.
UCLA Study Finds That There Is a Large Racial Gap in the Urban Wage...
A new study by researchers at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles, find that the urban wage wage premium primarily benefits White and male workers, with significantly less positive impacts for Black workers, and possibly none for Latino and female workers.
Same Sex Couples Are Far More Likely to Be Interracial Than Opposite-Sex Couples
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau finds that in 2022, there were about 1.3 million same-sex couple households in the United States. Roughly 740,000 were married and 540,000 unmarried. About 31 percent of married same-sex couples were interracial in 2022, much higher than the 19 percent of married opposite-sex couples that were interracial.
American Students Studying Abroad in Sub-Saharan Africa
In the 2021-22 academic year, there were 4,614 American students who studied at universities in sub-Saharan Africa. This is about one tenth of the number of students from sub-Saharan Africa studying at U.S. universities.
U.S. Public Schools Remain Separate and Unequal
Approximately 522,400 students, or 1 percent of overall student enrollment, attended public schools where fewer than half of the teachers met all state certification requirements. Of the students attending those schools, 66 percent were Black and Latino students.
Hospitals That Serve Mostly Black Patients Are Less Likely to Have Core Resources to...
UCLA researchers looked at nearly 4,400 hospitals across the U.S., including 864 with high numbers of Black and Hispanic patients. The team looked at the availability of 34 cancer-related services at these facilities. They found that hospitals serving high numbers of Black patients were significantly less likely to offer all the core services.
Huge Increase in Students From Sub-Saharan Africa at U.S. Colleges and Universities
In the 2022-23 academic year, the number of students from Nigeria was nearly three times the number of students from any other sub-Saharan African nation. Nigerians made up more than one third of all students from sub-Saharan Africa who studied in the United States in the 2022-23 academic year.
Government Programs to Attract Physicians to Underserved Areas Have Not Worked
A federal program created to attract physicians to medically underserved areas of the United States has not achieved this intended effect or reduced mortality rates in these regions, a new Yale study finds.
UCLA Report Finds That Television Shows Have Made Progress in Diversifying Their Casts
The tenth annual Hollywood Diversity Report produced by the Entertainment and Media Research Initiative at the University of California, Los Angeles finds that, for the first time, overall cast diversity in television shows reflected the population across all platforms following an upward trend over the last decade.
Study Finds Racial Discrimination Has a Major Impact on Stress Levels in Teens
Researchers measured salivary cortisol five times a day over three days and found that teens who experienced peer discrimination — racial discrimination from other teens — had unhealthy levels of the so-called stress hormone cortisol circulating in their bodies throughout the day. This can lead to chronic health conditions.
“Black Sounding” Names Continue to Be a Disadvantage in the Job Market
Twenty years ago, a ground-breaking study found that people with names generally thought to be Black who submitted resumes to employers were less likely to be contacted for the job interviews compared to people with similar qualifications who had names that did not lead employers to believe the applicant was Black. A new study has found that not much has changed.
Outlawed 55 Years Ago, The Effects of Redlining Are Still Being Felt in Communities...
Although the practice of redlining has been illegal since 1968, multiple studies show that redlining’s harmful legacy has left nonwhite communities struggling with air pollution, reproductive health disorders, and fewer urban amenities more than 50 years later.
Study Finds That African Americans Are Only Small Percentage of Sperm Donors
Donors who identified as Hispanic (10.9 percent) or Black (3.3 percent) were significantly underrepresented as compared to the U.S. population. Hispanics are 22 percent of the population and Blacks are 13.3 percent. Asian donors were overrepresented, making up 21.9 percent of the donors but only 6.5 percent of the U.S. population.
Stress From Discrimination, Racism, and Safety Fears Leads to Increased Heart Disease Risk for...
The research led by scholars at Virginia Commonwealth University found that the cardiovascular impact of these stressors varied by gender, with Black women more affected by discrimination and Black men more affected by neighborhood safety.
Black Youth Are Scarce in Suicide Research Studies
Black youth under 13 are twice as likely to die by suicide compared to their White peers, and the suicide death rate among Black youth is increasing faster than any other racial or ethnic group. But a new study by scholars at the University of Houston finds that Black youth are almost nonexistent in the literature that guides treatment development.
Students From Underrepresented Groups Fuel Enrollment Growth in Higher Education
Black, Latinx, and Asian students accounted for most of the undergraduate and graduate enrollment growth this fall. Black enrollments were up 2.1 percent. Black enrollments climbed due to large increases in enrollment from students in the top income brackets.
Blacks Are Vastly Underrepresented in Staff Positions in the U.S. Senate
A new report from the the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C., finds that African Americans account for 13.6 percent of the U.S. population, but only 2.1 percent of Senate personal office top staffers. Of the 100 chiefs of staff in the U.S. Senate, only one is Black.
FBI Releases New Data on Hate Crimes in the United States
There were 778 hate crimes in elementary or secondary schools that were reported to the FBI in 2022. There were only 403 reported hate crimes on college campuses.
Black Enrollments in Graduate Education Show a Significant Decrease
Between Fall 2021 and Fall 2022, first-time graduate enrollment decreased by 7.8 percent among Black/African American students. Only 4.5 percent of U.S. citizens and permanent resident students enrolled for the first time in physical and earth sciences were Black. Blacks were 5.7 percent of first-time graduate students in engineering.
Black Scores on the ACT College Entrance Examination Are in Freefall
Some 20 percent of all Whites who took the ACT test were deemed college-ready in all four areas of English, mathematics, reading, and science. For Blacks, just 3 percent of all test takers were deemed college-ready in all four areas.
Blacks Are Vastly Underrepresented in Leadership Roles in Academic Surgery
In a study of 165 surgical departments only 8.9 percent of leaders were of racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in medicine. African American women made up only 1.5 percent of all department chairs and 4 percent of vice chairs. They made up 0.6 percent of division chiefs.
Black Students Remain Underrepresented at the Nation’s Most Selective Colleges and Universities
A new report from the Education Trust finds that even with the practice of race-sensitive admissions at selective colleges and universities in the United States for the past half-century or more, Black students remain underrepresented at these elite institutions. And the progress toward equality has been slow.
Addressing the Barriers Faced by Black Fathers Who Attend College
A new study from the Center for Law and Social Policy finds that 72 percent of all Black student fathers attending public four-year institutions leave college without earning a degree or other credential. Black student fathers comprise 19 percent of student parents and are less likely than their peers to have access to public benefits programs like childcare assistance.
White and Black Children Categorize Racially Ambiguous Faces Differently
New research by psychologists at Duke University and the University of Chicago finds that Black and White children and adults categorize racially ambiguous faces differently. White people more often see multiracial faces as Black, whereas Black people more often see multiracial faces as White.
Addressing the Lack of Diversity in Faculty Ranks in Psychology
A new report from the American Psychological Association states that an academic workforce that represents demographic changes within the student population and the larger U.S. society as essential to a vital and accurate psychological science that is relevant in the 21st century.
Department of Education’s Latest Data on Campus Hate Crimes
In 2020, of the more than 21,200 criminal incidents that occurred on the campuses of postsecondary institutions and were reported to police or security agencies, 571 incidents were classified as hate crimes. In 2020, race was the motivating bias in more than half of on-campus hate crimes.
Report Alleges Hostile Racial Environment in the School of Education at the University of...
The report followed the departure of four women of color faculty from the School of Education. The report stated that these women had been “pushed out” through various microaggressions and other abuses.
Is the Black-White Income Gap Finally Shrinking for Good?
In 2019, the median Black household income was 59.7 percent of the median income of non-Hispanic White families. In 2022, In the income gap was 65.2 percent.
Study Finds Blacks More Likely to Live Behind Decaying Levees Than Whites
While nationwide the disparity for Blacks is less than 20 percent, there are high levels of disparity for Black populations behind levees in Kentucky (284 percent) and Tennessee (156 percent).
Census Bureau Offers a Breakdown of the Black Population in the United States
The Black population is often talked about in the media as a monolith. But in fact, the Black population is quite diverse. New data from the U.S. Census Bureau offers a breakdown on the Black population in the U.S.
The Official Poverty Rate for African Americans Is the Lowest in History
The bad news is that in 2022, the Black poverty rate was still more than double the rate for non-Hispanic Whites. In 2022, 22.3 percent of all Black children lived in poverty.
Prior to the Pandemic, White Children Were Three Times as Likely to Be Homeschooled...
In 2019, some 4 percent of all White children were homeschooled, compared to 1.2 percent of Black children. Thus, Whites were more than three times as likely as Blacks to be homeschooled. The most commonly reported reasons for homeschooling were concern about the school environment.
Study Finds That Protesting NFL Players Who ‘Took a Knee’ at 2016 Games Were...
A recent study by scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Connecticut, and Pennsylvania State University examined the career trajectories of the first 50 NFL athletes to kneel in protest during a pregame national anthem in 2016.
