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Thursday, 4 November 2010

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A. Mr. Riley's Inflammatory Editorial

When Mr. Jason L. Riley, an African American member of the editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal, published a defamatory piece about HBCUs on September  28th, 2010, I was surprised and disappointed. As the editor/manager of the Gateway to HBCUs, I have been conducting systematic reviews of their academic activities -- their teaching, learning, and community service -- for the last 15 years.

Given my own knowledge of HBCUs, I found that most of Mr. Riley's points were either incorrect or they merely reiterated some well-known deficiencies in the performance of some, but by no means all HBCUs. As an academic systems analyst, I recognize the importance of identifying problems as a first step towards developing solutions. However, when problems have been well-known for a long time, what purpose is served by high profile repetitions that don't make use of their high visibility to propose to constructive solutions?

But I was even more surprised and disappointed by the many ill-informed comments from readers that the Journal subsequently published on its Website -- not only by most of the comments that agreed with the Mr. Riley's attacks, but also by most of the comments that were supposed to be defending HBCUs against his attacks. Given the upscale demographics of the Journal's readership, how was it possible that so many of its readers knew so little about what HBCUs were actually doing?

A politically savvy colleague suggested that the Journal's publication of both Mr. Riley's essay and the readers' comments was a deliberate attempt by Mr. Rupert Murdoch, the Journal's very partisan Republican owner, to stir up racial conflict just a few weeks before the Congressional elections, conflict that would more likely benefit Republican challengers than Democratic incumbents.  While I am usually slow to subscribe to conspiracy theories, I could not think of a more plausible explanation.

As I gave further consideration to most of the comments from the HBCU "defenders" I became more disturbed by their tone than by their factual errors, a tone that I heard again and again in subsequent weeks in numerous responses from other "defenders" that appeared on other Websites and in other printed publications, a tone that, in my opinion, will do more damage to HBCUs in the long run than Mr. Riley's ill-informed editorial that will probably be forgotten sometime in the near future.


B. HBCUs Are No Longer Synonymous With Black Higher Education
Intense loyalty to one's alma mater is expected; indeed, colleges encourage it and depend on it to motivate generous donations of money and other resources from their alumni. For students and alums of HBCUs, an attack on all HBCUs is tantamount to an attack on their individual alma maters that they will not tolerate. No problem.

I have a problem when defenders overreach, when they explicitly or implicitly assert that an attack on HBCUs is an attack all black higher education. This disturbes me because HBCUs are no longer responsible for the education of the vast majority of African Americans. Whereas there was a time, as recently as the 1960s, when HBCUs provided 80 to 90 percent of the higher education opportunities for African Americans, today their enrollments are closer to ten percent.

HBCUs are only responsible for their own successes and their own failures. They are not responsible for the second rate education that most African American students currently receive from most non-HBCUs as reflected by the fact that most African American students at the vast majority of non-HBCUs have substantially lower retention rates and substantially lower graduation rates than their Caucasian and Asian American peers.

I am commited to my core to Jefferson's assertion that "all men are created equal." Therefore I am equally committed to its obvious corollary that "all black men are created equal." So if 90 percent of all black students currently attend non-HBCUs, then I have to accept the consequence that HBCUs have become a marginal segment of black higher education. Their students are not "better than" or "blacker than" the vast majority of African American students who are being educated (or miseducated) at non-HBCUs.  So HBCUs do not deserve a greater share of resources than their declining numbers represent. Hence those of us who are truly concerned with improving black higher education should direct the lion's share of our energies towards improving non-HBCUs ... unless ... unless HBCUs use their unique visibility in the national consciousness to assume a leadership role in improving the quality of the education that is received, not just by their own students, but by all African American students in all colleges and universities.


C. HBCUs as Past and Future Leaders of Black Higher Education
Most fair-minded observers acknowledge the contributions of HBCUs in times past; but given their small and declining share of black higher education today, what would enable them to provide effective leadership in the future? In my opinion, two characteristics provide HBCUs with substantial and continuing competitive advantages -- if we have sufficient wit to use them:
  • Organizational Diversity
    All black men may have been are created equal, but all HBCUs are not the same. Indeed, there is such an extraordinary range of programs and productivity among HBCUs that in previous blogs I have argued that they provide an ideal "natural laboratory" for identifying the teaching and advisement strategies that are most effective for educating African American students. 
  • Intellectual Diversity
    HBCUs also provide a precious intellectual freedom for African Americans when dealing with race-related issues that is rarely found at predominantly white institutions to this day, a freedom that allows ideas proposed by African American faculty, staff, and students to be judged on their merits without regards to "What Black People Really Think" -- as prescribed by prominent black (and white) pundits in the nation's predominantly white media.

    At HBCUs, where "everyone" is black, everyone knows that nobody speaks for all black people. When someone says something with which you disagree, you just shrug it off, saying "That's his or her opinion, but it's not my opinion." Counter-productive "blacker than thou" games can flourish at predominantly white colleges and universities and in predominantly white media, like the Wall Street Journal, wherein blacks represent a small percentage of the total community.  But at HBCUs where "everyone" is black, the color of a speaker's skin is never part of the message. 

    The diversity of perspectives afforded by this intellectual freedom gives me hope that, sooner or later, HBCUs will develop creative solutions for the well documented problems in their own programs.  More importantly, HBCUs will share their solutions with the nation's non-HBCUs and thereby contribute to improving the quality of the education received by all African American students.
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010

The Best HBCUs in STEM

The National Academies recently published another blue ribbon report that raises alarms about America's imminent decline as a major economic (and political) power due to our declining production of doctorates in science and technology relative to that of other nations. (See Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology at the Crossroads.)

The good news from an HBCU perspective is the report's explicit acknowledgement that the only way for America to maintain its current eminence is to mobilize the STEM skills of its black and brown minorities. To be specific, the report bluntly acknowledges the significant role that HBCUs can play in increasing the number of African American STEM doctorates. 

Following the precedent of a widely cited NSF report a few years ago (see Baccalauareate Origins of Black Doctorates, Aug 2008), the National Academies developed their own tabulation of the colleges where African Americans who earned STEM doctorates between 2002 and 2006 earned their baccalaureate degrees. The "Top Ten" colleges were all HBCUs; moreover, five of the next fifteen colleges were also HBCUs. (Note: the Academies's Top Ten is consistent with, but not identical to the NSF Top Ten.) That's the good news. Now comes the challenge.

Note: The NSF Baccalaureate Origins study was updated in April 2013

If the production of black pre-doctoral candidates were merely a matter of enrollments, then the HBCU (or non-HBCU) having the largest black undergraduate enrollment would always rank first, the college having the second largest enrollment would always rank second, etc, etc, etc. But this is not the case with the Academies' list, nor was it the case with the previous NSF list.

Indeed, it is more instructive for us to identify the colleges that produced the most future black doctorates per thousand black students enrolled in their colleges. Of course, we must also insist on some kind of "minimum" black enrollment; otherwise a college that only enrolled one black student per class whose graduates always obtained doctorates would be at the top of the list ... but wouldn't make much of a contribution to filling the growing national gap in STEM doctorates. However this isn't a concern in the present case because each of the HBCUs on the Academies' Top Ten list has a sizable black enrollment.

Ideally we would calculate the average undergraduate enrollments in each of the Top Ten schools for 8 to 10 years preceding the 2002 to 2006 observation period. Unfortunately, this data was not available to the author of this note. So he used the Fall 2009 enrollments as a plausible estimate of the average relative sizes of the HBCU enrollments.

The next paragraph displays the Academies' Top Ten list with the ranking, name, and number of doctoral alumni in bold on the left side ... followed by the Fall 2009 undergraduate enrollments ... followed by the number of doctoral alums per 1,000 undergrads on the right side, again in bold.

1. FAMU 51, Undergrad = 10,244 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 4.98
2. Howard 48, Undergrad = 7,176 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 6.69 {6}
3. Hampton 44, Undergrad = 4,565 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 9.64 {4}

4. NCA&T 42, Undergrad = 8,955 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 4.69
5. Spelman 42, Undergrad = 2,229 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 18.84 {1}
6. Morehouse 35, Undergrad = 2,689 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 13.01 {2}

7. Southern A&M 33, Undergrad = 6,484 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 5.09
8. Xavier 32, Undergrad = 4,228 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 7.57 {5}
9. Tuskegee 31, Undergrad = 2,475 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 12.52 {3}

10. Morgan 30, Undergrad = 6,199 ... # per 1,000 undergrads = 4.84   

Before considering these amended results, the author asks the reader to pause for a moment to acknowledge the achievements of every school on this list. Each and all are credits to themselves, to the HBCU community, and to the nation as a whole.
 
Now for the numbers. For readers who did not perform a similar analysis of the earlier NSF list, Spelman's preeminence must come as a shock. It is almost fifty percent more productive than the second ranked college and more than three times as productive as the schools at the bottom of this elite list. ... and, oh yes, it's a "girl's school" ... a "girl's school" that is beating the pants off the other schools in STEM, fields in which women are still not expected to be as successful as men. ... Full disclosure requires that the author acknowledges that he is the proud father of two daughters and the proud grandfather of one granddaughter ... :-)
 
Other observations are not surprising: The top six schools on this Top Ten list are all private colleges, and all six are substantially more productive than the four public HBCUs. Not only is this not surprising, if the results were otherwise, one would have to suspect the validity of the data. None of the public HBCUs is a "flagship" campus in their state systems; hence none are allowed to be anywhere near as "selective" in their admissions as the private HBCUs. Furthermore, the private schools charge tuition and fees that are two to three times as high as the public HBCUs, so parents (and students) should expect, nay demand that they be at least two to three times as productive.

It would be far more instructive (and fairer) to compare the black STEM doctoral productivity of the top public HBCUs with that of the other public colleges in their respective states and to adjust the rankings to take Pell eligibility and students' entering grade point averages and/or SAT scores into account.  The author did not make these calculations because he does not have access to the necessary data at this time.

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Tuesday, 12 October 2010

What If HBCUs Never Existed? -- An Alternative Response

This question has recently been asked and answered in an historical context. With all due respect for the good intentions of the author of that widely read essay, in my opinion neither the question nor an historical response addresses the existential challenge: Why are HBCUs still needed?

A similar question could be asked and answered about family farms. There was a time, prior to the industrialization of farming in the nineteenth century, when over 70 percent of the population was directly engaged in farming. Today less than three percent of us are farmers. Times change.

Railroads provide a more insightful example. Prior to the invention of cars, trucks, and airplanes, railroads transported over 90 percent of the passengers and goods across the continent. Today, railroads still play a vital role in our nation's economy -- not as 19th century monopolies, but as core components of a multimodal, national, transportation infrastructure. Times changed, but fortunately, so did the railroads.
 
As I stated in my own essay "From HBCUs to BCUs," the existential challenge can only be addressed by identifying new missions for HBCUs that will enable them to continue to play a leadership role for the central issue that inspired their creation in the first place -- providing better higher educational opportunities for African Americans. We know what HBCUs have done in the past, but looking forward, what will they do in the future? More specifically, what will they do that other institutions of higher learning won't do as well, or perhaps, won't do at all?
 
Almost fifty years after African Americans entered the higher education mainstream, their retention and graduation rates lag far behind their Caucasian and Asian American counterparts. I hesitate to say that integration hasn't worked, but it certainly hasn't worked anywhere near as well as we had hoped. If HBCUs don't play a leadership role in developing new teaching methods that are more effective for all African American students, not just for their own students, but especially for African American males, who will? And if HBCUs don't play a leadership role in developing and implementing solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems that have disproportionately negative impact on African American communities, who will?

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Universities with the Best Free Online Courses

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No tuition money? No problem! There are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list ranks several of the best free university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current field.



1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)


If you are looking for a wide range of free courses offered online, MIT is your best option. More than 1,800 free courses are offered through the school's OpenCourseWare project. Courses are in text, audio and video formats and translated into a number of different languages. Students all over the world use OpenCourseWare and 96 percent of visitors to this site say they would recommend it to someone else.

2. Open University (open.ac.uk)

The Open University is the UK's largest academic institution as a free degree university. The school's OpenLearn website gives everyone free access to both undergraduate and graduate-level course materials from The Open University. Courses cover a wide range of topics, such as the arts, history, business, education, IT and computing, mathematics and statistics, science, health and technology.

3. Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

Carnegie Mellon University offers a number of free online courses and materials through a program called Open Learning Initiative. OLI courses are intended to allow anyone at an introductory college level to learn about a particular subject without formal instruction. Course options include such offerings as statistics, biology, chemistry, economics, French and physics.
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4. Tufts University (tufts.edu)

Like MIT, Tufts has OpenCourseWare that is available free to everyone. Courses are sorted by school (i.e. School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, etc.) and include assignments, lecture notes and other supplementary materials.

5. Stanford (stanford.edu)

Stanford University, one of the world's leading free degree university , has joined forces with iTunes U in providing access to Stanford courses, lectures and interviews. These courses can be downloaded and played on iPods, PCs, and Macs and can also be burned to CDs. If you don't have iTunes, you can download it here for free.

6. University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

UC Berkeley, one of the free degree university in the nation where you can earn online degrees , has been offering live and on-demand webcasts of certain courses since 2001. Hundreds of UC Berkeley courses, both current and archived, are now available as podcasts and webcasts. Courses cover a range of subjects, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer programming, engineering, psychology, legal studies and philosophy.

7. Utah State University (usu.edu)

Utah State University is a free degree university which also provides access to free online courses to earn online degrees. Study options include everything from anthropology to physics and theatre arts. These comprehensive text-based courses can be downloaded as zip files or viewed directly on the site.

8. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (kutztownsbdc.org)

Kutztown University's Small Business Development Center offers the largest collection of free business courses available on the web. Course topics include accounting, finance, government, business law, marketing and sales. Comprehensive text, interactive case studies, slides, graphics and streaming audio help to demonstrate the concepts presented in each course.
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9. University of Southern Queensland (usq.edu.au)

The University of Southern Queensland in Australia provides free online degrees access to a number of different courses through yet another OpenCourseWare initiative. Courses from each of the five faculties are available, covering a broad range of topics, including communication, science, career planning, technology, teaching and multimedia creation.

10. University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)

UC Irvine, one of the nation's top free degree university to earn online degrees , recently joined the OCW Consortium and began providing free university level courses online. Right now, there are only a handful of options to choose from, but this list is growing. Current courses cover topics like financial planning, human resources, capital markets and e-marketing. Course materials include syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams.
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Free Degree – Exeter University give away Free Degrees.

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Mid summer is traditionally the time for graduation ceremonies and the awarding of degrees to students who have poured over their books and worked long into the night to complete research projects. Over three thousand Exeter University students will be joined by family and fiends for the degree ceremonies being during July. The ceremonies mark the successful completion of at least three years dedicated study and are an opportunity to award degrees for academic achievement. However some “lucky” ones simply have to turn up on the day to be given a free degree.

No Study Degrees – Degrees Given Away for Free!
Each year’s graduation ceremonies include the giving of free degrees – known as Honorary degrees – with no requirement for study to a selection of celebrities. The requirements to be a recipient of an honorary degree are cloudy – sometimes service to local community is cited. This year sees Ruth Hawker OBE who trained in nursing and education in Exeter, and became chief executive of Tor and SouthWest College, Devon – the award of an honorary degree to Ruth is recognition for the commitment and involvement with the local region over a long period of time.

The same cannot be said however for others on this years list:

Rik Mayo claims regional fame simply by the fact that he lives here – well give him a medal – it really is a test of character to relocate to the west country. Rik’s honorary degree is for his contribution to comedy. Why oh why then do we not see the like of Jethro (a hilarious Cornish Comedian) of the Wurzels (a hilarious Somerset beat combo) receiving these free degrees?
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The bogus degree conspiracy deepens when we discover that Floella Benjamin is to give away these free degrees. Floella it is revealed has herself been the recipient of Exeter’s generosity being awarded a Hon D.Litt (Exon) – Doctor of Letters from Exeter!

Other awards will be made for contributions to literature, comedy, politics, media, business, engineering, higher education and healthcare – David Attenborough – Patron of a Blood Pressure healthcare organisation – in fact anything that will appeal to potential students during the college’s graduate recruitment drives.

For traditionalists, it gone too far. A Smithers, Professor of Education at the University of Buckingham believes degrees shouldn’t be dished out willy nilly with the hope of brightening up graduation ceremonies. Although he himself holds an honorary degree from Manchester he says: “The criterion these days is often that the honorary graduate is well known rather than they have made a distinctive contribution in their particular academic field,”

Rest assured – the Muncher has already written to the Western Morning News the hope that the tireless search for the perfect pasty will be acknowledged in due course.

Whilst carefully researching this post the following result appeared for a search for [pasty degree] which has a number one slot for Be a pasty chef? Get your degree in baking and pastry arts-The Culinary Institute of America
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