Search Results - "The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education"

Why I Left Harvard University by West, Cornel

“…An adaptation from Democracy Matters by Cornel West is presented. West gives his account of what happened between him and Harvard University president Lawrence…”
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Would African Americans Have Been Better off without Brown v. Board of Education? by Balkin, Jack M.

“…Discusses the opinion held by some Blacks and many Whites that Supreme Court enforcement of the separate but equal rule of Plessy v. Ferguson would have…”
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Reexamining the Racial Record of Abraham Lincoln

“…The most important facet of this public, electronic review is that the authors are not fettered by editors' or mainstream corporate sensibilities. As a result,…”
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Are Black Colleges Producing Today's African-American Lawyers? by Ehrenberg, Ronald G.

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The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual by West, Cornel

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A Half-Century on the Battle Lines for Civil Rights by Cross, Theodore

“…IN THE PREFACE of Theodore White's book The Making of a President, he wrote that in the United States there are three enduring issues. They are: 1) bread and…”
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Thomas Carlyle and Affirmative Action by Cross, Theodore

“…Yet without some degree of preferential admissions there appeared to be no other means of bringing significant numbers of black Americans into our most…”
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Why The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education? by Cross, Theodore

“…[...] because of intense racial discrimination, the percentage income gap between blacks and whites actually grew wider with each year of education attained…”
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African Americans and the Competitive Awakening in Higher Education by Cross, Theodore

“…In economic matters, our country was founded on the theory that the pressures of competition rather than public law were best suited to provide for the fair…”
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The Legacy of Theodore Cross': The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education by Slater, Robert Bruce

“…[...] JBHE has published almost 10,000 pages of statistics, commentary, historical accounts, critical essays, and news on the status and progress of African…”
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Tributes to Theodore Lamont Cross and His Journal of Blacks in Higher Education by Allen, Danielle S., Anderson, Elijah, Baker, Houston A., Bell, Derrick, Bowen, William G., Baker, Howard H., Bateson, Mary Catherine, Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Davis, David Brion, Tufo, Robert J. Del, Francis, Norman C., Gates, Henry Louis, Goldsby, Richard A., Gutmann, Amy, Hahn, Steven, Hughes, Kate, Katzenbach, Nicholas deB, Kennedy, Randall L., Marable, Manning, Marx, Anthony W., Moskowitz, Milton, Painter, Nell Irvin, Pouncey, Peter, Rudenstine, Neil L., Rumsfeld, Donald H., Shaw, Theodore M., West, Cornel, Wilson, William Julius

“…A Dedication to Racial Equality Danielle S. Allen is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in…”
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More Blacks Are Competing in Advanced Placement Programs, But the Large Racial Scoring Gap Persists by [Unknown]

“…[...] in addition to leading to the admission of more blacks to stronger academic institutions, the AP test opportunity is important for African- American…”
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Ranking the Efforts of Flagship State Universities to Increase Black Students and Black Faculty by [Unknown]

“…Since the turn of the century more flagship state universities have shown a decrease in black enrollments than the number that have achieved an increase…”
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The Black Students Who Followed in the Footsteps of James Meredith at Ole Miss by Lambert, Frank

“…McDowell's family supported their son's decision to attend Ole Miss, and they paid dearly for that support. Because they lived in the middle of the black…”
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Black Students Show Solid Progress in Graduation Rates at Highly Selective Colleges and Universities by [Unknown]

“…[...]of the improving situation at Washington and Lee University, once again all of the nation's topranked colleges and universities have African-American…”
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Harding College's Long Struggle With Race by Key, Barclay

“…The Bison noted that "there are now a few isolated instances where some students are entering colleges and universities where they had been traditionally…”
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Cornel West: "Why I Left Harvard for Princeton" by West, Cornel

“…[...] in some small way, if I can help bring the social consciousness of a Curtis Mayfield or a Nina Simone to hiphop, if I can reach one young person with a…”
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The Status of Black Student Freshman Enrollments at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities by [Unknown]

“…The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has completed its survey of admissions offices at the nation's highest-ranked research universities. Two years ago…”
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College Graduation Rates: Where Black Students Do the Best and Where They Fare Poorly Compared to Their White Peers by [Unknown]

“…BLACK ENROLLMENTS IN higher education are at an all-time high. But nationwide the black student college graduation rate remains dismally low, at a level of…”
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The Black Man Who Paved the Way for James Meredith to Racially Integrate the University of Mississippi by Eagles, Charles W.

“…Weeks earlier, the black minister and college professor had announced his intention to break the color barrier, but unlike other blacks interested in attending…”
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