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HBCUs

The top 100: graduate and professional schools – part two; includes listing of postsecondary institutes that graduate the most minority students

This is the second half of Black Issues In Higher Education’s annual “Top 100” rankings of postsecondary institutions that graduate the most minority students. Part I ranked schools that grant baccalaureate degrees (see July 9, 1998 edition). This edition ranks graduate and professional schools.

July 12, 2007

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Growth among the credentialed class

People of color are earning advanced degrees at a pace that exceeds that of Whites, but can the pipeline’s momentum be sustained without affirmative action?

July 12, 2007

Health

A shopper’s market; economy brightens job picture for professional school graduates

Economy brightens job picture for professional school graduates

July 12, 2007

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Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males. – book reviews

Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males relates wonderful stories of parents striving successfully to raise academically high-achieving African American boys who are then encouraged to excel in college and subsequently go on to elite graduate and professional schools in medicine, mathematics, science, and engineering.

July 12, 2007

HBCUs

Black scientists: a history of exclusion, part 2 – includes related article – Cover Story

The first African American to receive a doctoral degree in the United States was a scientist. Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918) was a native of New Haven, Connecticut, who graduated from Yale University’s undergraduate school in 1874, and completed his Ph.D. in physics there in 1876.

July 12, 2007

Students

Gems of wisdom: avoiding derailment on the doctorate track

Dr. Howard Adams has been engaged in the struggle to attract more African American students into graduate education in science and engineering for more than twenty years. In that time, he has witnessed measurable improvement in the academic caliber, motivation, and preparedness of African American undergraduates.

July 12, 2007

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BI Appointments PROFESSIONAL

Cassandra Berry has been named an associate vice president for the new office of equity and diversity at the University of North Texas. Previously, she was assistant vice president and director of the office of equal opportunity and multicultural affairs at UNT. Berry earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Stephen F. Austin State University.

July 12, 2007

African-American

Howard Weighs In on Affirmative Action Debate

WASHINGTON By organizing a high-powered symposium that includes William Gray of The College Fund, Christopher Edley Jr. of the Harvard School of Law, and Luther Williams of the National Science Foundation, Howard University has begun an examination of whether African Americans and other under-represented groups will continue to have access to graduate education.

July 12, 2007

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From combat to campus: GI Bill gave a generation of African Americans an opportunity to pursue the American dream – Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 – Special Report: The Integrated Military – 50 Years – Cover Story

The early champions of the GI Bill probably never envisioned the far-reaching impact the landmark legislation would have on American society.

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

Latinx

Making It Happen

Four Latinas discuss how they, against the odds, realized their higher education and professional dreams.

June 27, 2007

Community Colleges

The Magnificent Twelve: Florida’s Black Junior Colleges. – book reviews

by Walter L. Smith, Ph.D. Four-G Publishers Available through Smith and Smith, Inc. 4830 N.W. 43rd Street Suite 291 Gainesville, FL 38602 Hardcover: $25.00

June 22, 2007