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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

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

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

STEM

The Top 100 Interpreting the Data

Substantial growth continues in both the number and percentage of students of color obtaining master’s…

July 12, 2006

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The Top 100: Interpreting The Data

Does a 5 percent annual percentage increase seem like a healthy rate of growth….

May 31, 2006

African-American

Emerging Scholars: Merging Disciplines, Cultures and Languages

Dr. Lucía M. Suárez is modest about her success in academia. When asked about the journey that has led her to…

January 11, 2006

STEM

The Top 100: Interpreting The Data

Black Issues examines the Top 100 institutions that awarded graduate degrees during the 2003-2004 academic year Story:

September 6, 2005

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of Color

Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of ColorOklahoma professor’s study finds hiring, tenure remain stumbling blocksWomen and underrepresented minorities are receiving the doctorate in record numbers these days. For example, women got 45 percent and minorities 19 percent of the 39,955 doctoral degrees awarded in 2000, and both figures were all-time highs.So it comes […]

March 24, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Howard University Engineers Success

Howard University Engineers SuccessInterdisciplinary study keeps the university on the cutting edgeBY CASSIE M. CHEWLess than three months before graduation, Howard University engineering student Artis Johnson is displaying signs of “senoritis.” As he completes the coursework toward his bachelor’s degree in systems and computer science, he can’t keep his thoughts off of graduation day or that […]

March 10, 2004

African-American

Black Studies and Black Scholars: Keeping the Faith

Black Studies and Black Scholars: Keeping the Faith By Dr. Dwight A. McBride I want to take this occasion to give institutionally marginal programs and departments a much-deserved moment of recognition. I specifically want to do so for African American studies programs and departments. Though African American scholars are not always synonymous with African American […]

January 1, 2003