Tag: Harvard University
Blacks Make Up 11.5 Percent of Admitted Students at Harvard University
Harvard chooses not to disclose how many Black students submitted applications for admission. But it does release data on admitted students. This year, 11.5 percent of all admitted students are African Americans.
Instilling Racial Pride Can Help Black Students Do Better in School
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard University finds that African American adolescents do better in school if their parents instill in them a strong sense of racial pride.
Harvard Student From Zimbabwe Named an International Rhodes Scholar
Dalumuzi Mhlanga, a senior at Harvard University, was named a Rhodes Scholar as part of the international contingent of Rhodes Scholars. He is a native of Zimbabwe.
Patricia King Stepping Down From the Harvard Corporation
The Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy at the Georgetown University Law Center has served on the principal fiduciary governing authority of Harvard University for the past seven years.
Three African American Women Win Rhodes Scholarships
Among this year's 32 American Rhodes Scholars are three African American women: Joy A. Buolamwini of Georgia Tech, Rhiana E. Gunn-Wright of Yale, and Nina M. Yancy of Harvard.
Karine Gibbs of Harvard University Wins Packard Foundation Fellowship
An assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, Dr. Gibbs will receive a total of $875,000 over the next five years to use in any way she wants to further her research.
Online Publication Identifies Its Choices for the Best Law Schools for Blacks
Harvard Law School is rated as the best for Black students. The law school at historically Black Howard University ranks second and the Georgetown University Law Center is third.
In Memoriam: Andrew Felton Brimmer Jr. 1926-2012
The son of a sharecropper, he was the first African American to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He also taught at Harvard Business School and chaired the board of trustees at Tuskegee University for 28 years.
Scholarly Study Finds Signifcant Racial Bias in Criminal Sentencing
The authors found a mean incarceration rate of 51 percent for Blacks and 38 percent for Whites. But they found a significant racial gap in incarceration rates between judges that increases the racial gap by as much as 18 percentage points.
Study Finds Black Students Who Used School Vouchers Are More Likely to Attend College
The results showed that African American students who went to private or parochial schools under the voucher program were 24 percent more likely to enroll in college.
Two Faculty Appointments of Note
Cornel West was named professor emeritus at Princeton and Ousame Kane was named to an endowed chair at Harvard Divinity School.
Ten African Americans Named to New Administrative Posts in Higher Education
Carlton Brown, Gerald Coleman, Kimberly Hilliard, Tijuana Hudson, Sheilah Vance, Vanidy Bailey, Patric Simon, Kevin Banks, Ron Price, and Ruffin Bell are all taking on new roles.
Harvard Study Finds Lower Education, Not Genetics, Explains Higher Rates of Hypertension Among Blacks
The study showed that blood pressure was significantly lower for Black Americans who had four years of additional education.
Two African American Scholars Named Fletcher Fellows
Rucker Johnson of the University of California at Berkeley and Trey Ellis of Columbia University are members of the 2012-13 class of Fletcher Fellows.
The New Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University
Jonathan Walton is filling the position previously held by the late Peter J. Gomes, who was pastor of Memorial Church at Harvard for more than 40 years before his death last year.
Large Numbers of Black Applicants Accepted at Top-Rated Schools
More than 10 percent of accepted students at Harvard University and nearly 14 percent at Williams College, are African Americans.
Three African American Men Win Higher Education Honors
Ira T. Wiggins, C. Garnett Henning, and Geoffrey Canada are honored.
An Historic Find in a Chicago Attic: The Papers of Harvard’s First Black Graduate
The papers of Richard T. Greener, including his Harvard University diploma, were discovered in an old trunk in a house that was about to be razed.
After More Than a Century, W.E.B. Du Bois Is Named to a Faculty Post at Penn
Despite a Ph.D. from Harvard and groundbreaking research on sociology and race in the final years of the nineteenth century, W.E.B. Du Bois was not offered a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania.
Study Examines the Mental Health of Black Women Community College Students Who Lived Through Hurricane Katrina
Nearly five years after the hurricane, a third of the women still showed signs of post-traumatic stress.
The Higher Education of the New Mayor of Gary, Indiana
Karen Freeman-Wilson is Indiana's first African American woman mayor.
Harvard Graduate From South Africa Wins Rhodes Scholarship
Matthews Mmopi is one of 10 students selected for Rhodes Scholarships from southern Africa.
Harvard Examines Its Ties to Slavery
The Slavery and Research Project has published a 34-page booklet.
A Surge in Black Applicants in New Non-Binding Early Action Admissions Programs
Both the University of Virginia and Harvard University report large increases in black early applicants from four years ago.
Honors and Awards
A summary of this week’s significant awards bestowed on Blacks in higher education.
Harvard Has the Highest Black Student Graduation Rate in the Ivy League
All eight Ivy League colleges have an African-American student graduation rate of 85 percent or better.
Bridget Terry Long Named Chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Education Sciences
She leads the board that oversees the research arm of the Department of Education.
Two African-American Academics Win Genius Awards
Tiya Miles and Roland Fryer are among the 22 winners of MacArthur Foundation Fellowships.
Harvard School of Public Health Fights AIDS in Tanzania
The Harvard School of Public Health in conjunction with the Tanzanian government has opened a new clinic in Dar es Salaam for AIDS patients.
Appointments, Promotions, and Resignations
• Vicky Coleman was appointed dean of library services at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, effective September 1. She has been serving as...
