Getting Serious About Diversity: Reaching Out to Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Comparing Libraries of Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Their White Counterparts

As one element in the effort to desegregate public institutions of higher education, federal courts have mandated the upgrading of libraries at public historically Black colleges and universities. This preliminary study compares the libraries of public HBCUs with those of traditionally White public colleges across eighteen states, mostly in the Southeast. By analyzing number of volumes, staff, ...

A Return on Investment Analysis for Black Graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Insights from Three Studies

Getting Serious About Similarity

Although most philosophical accounts about model/world relations focus on structural mappings such as isomorphism, similarity has long been discussed as an alternative account. Despite its attractions, proponents of the similarity view have not provided detailed accounts of what it means that a model is similar to a realworld target system. This article gives the outlines of such an account, dr...

Getting serious about cholera.

649 The move to make testing more routinely available, or even to require that physicians offer it to patients, has encountered little opposition. But there is resistance to the elimination of pretest counseling and specific written consent, as well as to the adoption of an opt-out standard. Although Frieden rejects mandatory HIV testing, many fear that without a requirement for written consent...

Race and Retention in a Competitive Labor Market: The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in NCAA Basketball

Between 1994 and 2013, Black head coaches of Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball programs were more likely to be terminated than their White counterparts, adjusting for performance and characteristics of the coach. Controlling for employment at a historically Black college or university, which accounts for approximately a quarter of the Black coaches in our sample, ov...