BLACK EOE JOURNAL 2010 YEARBOOK ISSUE T OP LIST Top 25 Business Schools for African Americans
Columbia Business School Cornell University (Johnson) Dartmouth College (Tuck) Duke University (Fuqua) Emory University (Goizueta) Fisher College of Business Georgetown University (McDonough) Harvard Business School Indiana University (Kelley) Northwestern University (Kellogg) Ohio State University (Fisher) Stanford Graduate School of Business University of California – Berkeley(Haas) /Los Angeles (Anderson)
University of Michigan (Ross) University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) University of Southern California (Marshall) University of Texas - Austin (McCombs) University of Virginia (Darden) Vanderbilt University (Owen) Wake Forest University School of Business Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) Webster University Yale University
Education Black Men Close the Gender Gap in Law School Enrollments S
ince JBHE was founded in 1993, we have repeatedly ad- dressed a persisting and highly disturbing trend. This is that
in higher education black women now hold a huge advantage over black men by almost every measure of attainment. More- over, the higher education gender gap among blacks is worsen- ing every year. In fact, if the trend in bachelor’s degree attain- ments over the past quarter century were to continue on a straight-line basis into the future, black men will not be earning a single degree in higher education by the year 2100. This result, of course, is highly unlikely, yet the projection informs us of a very serious problem. Traditionally, the legal profession has told a different story.
Legal education for blacks and whites has been dominated by both black men and white men. In 1873 the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case Bradwell v. Illinois, upheld the right of a state to pro- hibit a woman from practicing law on account of her gender. As late as the 1960s Harvard Law School admitted women, but one faculty member refused to call on them except on what he desig- nated as Ladies Day, a class time he set aside for that purpose. In 1963 there were only 1,739 female students enrolled in law
76
school in the United States. They made up less than 4 percent of all law school enrollments. But during the 1970s women of all races began to attend law
school in large numbers. In 1971 there were 6,682 women en- rolled in American law schools. By the end of the decade, wom- en enrollments in law schools had increased about fivefold to more than 37,000. As late as 1980, women still made up only 12 percent of all lawyers in the United States. Over the past 25 years women have made huge strides in le-
gal education. Today there are more than 71,000 women en- rolled in law schools in the United States, making up 46.9 per- cent of total enrollments. In 2008 women earned 47.1 percent of all law degrees awarded in the United States.
Black Women at Top Law Schools Today Black women now have become dominant in African-Amer-
ican legal education as they have in almost every area of higher education in the United States. A JBHE analysis finds that in the 2008-09 academic year black women made up 61.7 percent of the African-American enrollments at the nation’s 50 highest-
www.blackeoejournal.com The Black E.O.E. Journal
&
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100