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Just the Stats: Top 100 Popular Disciplines By Race, Gender

As encouraging as the numbers of minorities earning advanced degrees may have been, gender differences across racial lines continue to persist at the master’s and doctoral levels.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Tenure at HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

Tenure is as valued at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as it is at traditionally White institutions (TWIs). Given the current political and economic climate, however, faculty at HBCUs may ultimately be in greater danger of losing their tenure privileges than scholars at other institutions.

July 11, 2007

STEM

Top 100 Graduate Degree Producers

Joy, uncertainty, sadness and feelings of accomplishment are just a few of the things graduates feel when walking across the stage to accept their diploma.

July 11, 2007

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The meaning of the numbers – rankings of colleges and universities with most minority students – Special Report: Top 100 Graduate & Professional Degree Producers

This is the second part of Black Issues In Higher Education’s annual “Top 100” rankings of colleges and universities that graduate the most minority, students. In part I, Black Issues ranked schools that grant baccalaureate degrees. In this issue, Black Issues ranks graduate and professional schools, beginning on page 22.

July 10, 2007

Students

The meaning of the numbers – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority college graduates

The analysis of degrees conferred to students of color in the United States continues this year with the simple objective of bringing national attention to those institutions that contribute, in raw numbers, to the educational attainment of members of ethnic and racial minorities.

July 10, 2007

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The graduate record – graduate record for colored students

To determine which institutions grant the most graduate and professional degrees to students of color, Black Issues In Higher Education relied on statistics provided by the U.S. Department of Education.

June 19, 2007

Students

Getting to the ‘real information.’ – the Student-Right-to-Know Act and colleges and universities academic profile – Recruitment & Retention

Five years after the Student-Right-to-Know Act went into effect, there are still concerns about reporting requirements and how they should be compared.

June 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Academy, AAUP Confronted on Low Faculty Diversity

Faculty members concerned about diversity took the academy as well as the American Association of University Professors to task for not doing enough to promote diversity at one session of AAUP’s 93rd annual meeting, “Telling the Truth at Difficult Times,” which started June 7 and concluded yesterday.

June 11, 2007

HBCUs

Minorities Continue Growth in Degree Attainment But Attend TWIs for Advanced Degrees, Says Report

Minority students accounted for half of the growth in bachelor degree attainment over the last 20 years, and minorities with advanced degrees are more likely to have attended traditionally White institutions, according to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

May 31, 2007

International

Top 100 Undergraduate Degree Producers

Who were Alexander Lucius Twilight and Mary Jane Patterson? If you know, you are an excellent candidate for the “Jeopardy” category, “African-American firsts.”

May 30, 2007

Sports

The Prevalence of Black Females In College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion

If you had a chance to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship in April, you probably noticed that 80 percent of the starters for Rutgers and Tennessee were non-White.

May 30, 2007

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Just the Stats: Prison Inmates More Literate Than Before

A recent study suggests new prison inmates are more educated than cohorts from a 1992 study, and more of their parents are college-educated. In fact, the literacy scores of Black and Hispanic inmates were higher than those of Black and Hispanic high school dropouts living in society.

May 17, 2007