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...which is reach out aggressively to students of all backgrounds,” Fitzsimmons said. This year, the Harvard Admissions Office released black student yield but did not release the number of black applicants, said Robert B. Slater, managing editor of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE). Two hundred and twenty black students were accepted into the Class of 2010, and 156 enrolled. “Yield shows that Harvard is still a very attractive place for black students. I think that the fact that such a large percentage of the black students that Harvard accepts decide...
...students rose to 95 percent this year—a 2 percent jump—as the College leapfrogged Amherst to lead the nation and remain over 50 percentage points above the national mean. In an article in its Winter 2005/2006 edition, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) reported that while nationally black students graduate at a “dismally low 42 percent,” the rate is highest at the nation’s most prestigious institutions. Amherst and Princeton University ranked second and third, and only four of the nation?...
Only 13 black economics professors teach undergraduates at the nation’s 25 highest ranking universities, according to a recent survey conducted by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE). This represents approximately one percent of the total number of economics professors at these schools. Twelve years ago, a survey of the same universities found 11 black economists. Harvard is no exception to the trend, with Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 as its only black economics professor. Prejudice against black economists does not seem to be at the root of the problem, according to the study...
...number of black students entering Yale this year jumped to a record 9.3 percent from last year’s 6.7 percent. These figures are the highest in the last decade for Yale, the JBHE found...
...Yale obviously has made some efforts to boost their numbers and they should get credit for it,” said R. Bruce Slater, managing editor of JBHE...