What we are reading: Week of April 14th, 2025

Newspapers

Only 19% of students at Howard University are Black Men

At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing. Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men, whose enrollment levels at four-year colleges have plummeted (NY Times). It may be worse, if you exclude foreign born Black men.

New Books

Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It, Andre M. Perry, 2025. We don’t have this one yet.

Trump issues an Executive Order on HBCUs

WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION AT HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Basically the Trump administration will be less active supporting Black education.

Scholarly Articles

“It’s About Time!” First-year Generation Z African American Collegiate Male Time Management Practices: A Phenomenological Study, James Delano Payne Douglas, Liberty University

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