Tag: University of Pennsylvania

Vivian Gadsden Named Co-Editor of Educational Researcher

She is the William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education and director of the National Center on Fathers and Families at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.

Study Finds Women and Minority Doctoral Candidates May Face Faculty Discrimination

Prospective doctoral students with Caucasian sounding male names were 26 percent more likely to be granted an interview than candidates with names that indicated they were minorities or women.

Penn Study Finds Racial Disparities in Assistance for Heart Attack Victims

African Americans who have heart attacks are less likely to receive CPR from bystanders than Whites who have heart attacks.

Dorothy Roberts Is the Newest PIK Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

For the past 14 years, Professor Roberts has been on the faculty at Northwestern University School of Law.

Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans

Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

Research on HBCUs Wins Outstanding Dissertation Award

Tryan L. McMickens, who teaches at Suffolk University in Boston, was honored by the PDK International Foundation.

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.

How Do Black Men Succeed in College?

Black men who were successful in college tended to have families who were committed to higher education and had a mentor during their K-12 years.

A New Fundraising Guide for HBCUs

The book is authored by Marybeth Gasman of the University of Pennsylvania and Nelson Bowman III of Prairie View A&M University.

Barbara Savage Wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Penn professor is honored for her book on the politics of Black religion.

University Research Finds Black Teens Are Less Likely Than Their White Peers to Use Drugs or Alcohol

The study examined data from more than 72,000 youth, ages 12 to 17.

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