Factual Fridays: Stats and Trivia for July 3, 2009
July 3rd, 2009 by Ajuan Mance
- Total number of black students enrolled in higher education in 2000: 1,730,300
- Total number of black students enrolled in higher education in 2007: 2,383,400
- % of white children ages 3 to 5 in 2006 who were read to seven or more times per week: 49.0%
- % of black childen ages 3 to 5 in 2006 who were read to seven or more times per week: 53.9%
- Black percentage of all graduate school enrollments in 1980: 5.6%
- Black percentage of all graduate school enrollments in 2007: 11.6%
- Year that California voters passed Proposition 209, eliminating race-based affirmative action in public institutions: 1996
- Number of African American students admitted to the California’s Boalt Hall Law School in 1997: 14
- Number of African American students admitted to Boalt Hall Law School who decided not to attend: 14
Sources: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (1-6); Harper’s Index (8,9).
Posted by Ajuan Mance
Posted in African American Students, African Americans, Black Students, Current Events, Higher Education, race
July 8th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Interesting facts, thanks for posting.