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After I had outlived the shocks of childhood, after the habit of reflection had been born in me, I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. Ordeal of A Native Son, by the late Addison Gayle, author of a number of books on black writers and a longtime professor of English at City University of New York, published by Anchor Press/Doubleday in 1980.

It's a remarkable achievement considering the fact that [Gordon Parks] never graduated from high school. That, too, has been rectified -- twice. In 1993, without having to take a test, he was awarded a high school degree by Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas. Then, last July a delegation from his hometown, including a former mayor, made its way to Parks' apartment in New York to present him with a diploma from the Fort Scott high school. They may not have been aware that 77 years ago Miss McClintock, a white high school teacher in Fort Scott, who served as an adviser to black students, had told them: \"Don't waste your parents' money on college. You'll wind up as porters and maids.\" Gordon Parks remembered this advice and when he received his thirtieth honorary degree, he dedicated it to her \"for pushing me to find her wrong.\" Parks once explained: \"When the doors of promise open, the trick is to quickly walk through them.\" He himself has walked through many doors. In the early 1960s, a colleague at Life, [Carl Mydans], a famous photographer in his own right, read something Parks had written about a storm he once witnessed in Kansas and he suggested that they have lunch with Evan Thomas, a Harper & Row executive. As Parks relates the story, Thomas opened the conversation by saying: \"Look, I want your novel. It's your first novel and we can only offer you $5,000.\" Parks started to respond, \"But Mr. Thomas, I...\", which prompted Thomas to add: \"Perhaps we can go to ten, but no more.\" Parks' answer: \"What I was trying to say, Mr. Thomas, was that I probably can't write a novel, but since you offered me all this money, I'm damn sure going to try.\" Parks has already made it clear, in his memoirs, that he considered his parents \"my just heroes.\" He has cited their \"compassion and generosity\" as they raised a large family in a two-bedroom house. \"Not once, during those years, did I hear my mother or father raise a voice against one another, nor, for that matter, against their children.\" Racism was rampant in Kansas during Parks' childhood, and he once wrote that he considered himself \"lucky to be alive especially when I remember that four of my close friends died of senseless brutality before they were twenty-one.\"

The philosophical underpinnings of the social investing movement are addressed. Stories in 1997 reveal how society today condemns the venality of Swiss bankers and the largest insurance company in Europe after World War II, major league baseball club owners and the PGA, and 4 blood products suppliers who ignored evidence that the HIV virus had contaminated blood supplies.

Wayne State University 38 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey 26 Temple University 21 University of Illinois 20 University of Michigan 18 Having failed previously to bring minority medical school enrollment up to the minority levels of the general population, the AAMC, in launching Project 3000 by 2000, has paid more attention to implementation. [...] the AAMC was able to report that deans at 123 schools have appointed a high-level official to coordinate plans and programs to implement the project. The school participates in the Robert Wood Johnson Summer Minority Medical Education Program, offering minorities a review of sciences in preparation for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). * Black students at Duke Medical School are sent to recruit at the high schools and colleges they attended.

There are 380 black studies programs at American colleges and universities, and at least 140 institutions offer degrees in black studies. This review describes some of the programs at highly ranked colleges and universities, which have large differences in their commitments to black studies. Relatively few of the historically black schools offer such degrees. (SLD)

The Consortium, which brings together 10 graduate business schools and more than 200 corporate sponsors in a partnership, has made a difference. It has financed the acquisition of MBA degrees by more than 2,000 minority students. In 1992 and 1993 it had 322 fellows pursuing an MBA at the 10 member schools -- and 60 percent of these students were African Americans. Recruitment efforts by the graduate business schools, especially the top-tier ones, have also made a difference. As a result, of the 78,000 MBAs awarded in 1991, some 2,500 went to blacks, according to Antoinette Malveaux, director of operations for the National Black MBA Association. This means that three out of every 100 MBAs are now going to blacks. It's better than 1965 but it's far below the representation of blacks in American society. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education surveyed 35 leading graduate business schools toward the end of 1993 and found a higher percentage of black enrollment in this group than in business schools generally. The Journal's editors found that these schools, which include virtually all the top-ranked, prestigious business schools in the country, are graduating approximately 10,600 MBAs a year, of which 570, or a little more than 5.4 percent, are African Americans. However, Charles W. Hickman, director of AACSB, points out that in addressing the issue of African Americans in business schools, the problem is not so much with the top-tier schools such as Harvard, Kellogg, and Stanford. \"They will get their share,\" he says, \"by just buying them. The problem is with schools like Memphis State.\" Even more dismal is the scene at the University of Notre Dame, where there are only four blacks in the MBA class of 250 and only one black faculty member. Lee Cunningham, director of MBA admissions, told us that Notre Dame does have trouble attracting minorities, especially blacks. She explains that \"we're in the middle of the country, we're Catholic.\"

A Dedication to Racial Equality Danielle S. Allen is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton University. Though it is a generational giveaway, I do remember a time at the beginning of my academic career when there was only a smattering of attractive periodicals and journals concerned with blacks, black studies, or blacks in higher education. [...] with the \"e-explosion,\" there is more journal content than anyone can master.