''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'' is a former
academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...
, now an online
magazine
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, for
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
s working in
academia
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
in the United States.
The journal was established as a quarterly in 1993 by
Theodore Cross, a "champion of civil rights" and the journal's longtime
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
. The last print issue appeared in 2010.
Issues published between 1993 and 2010 are available on
JSTOR
JSTOR (; short for ''Journal Storage'') is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of j ...
.
However, the magazine still publishes articles on its website.
It reports and comments on statistical information pertaining to black students and faculty in the United States. According to
Rhonda Sharpe and
William Darity it is "a key resource for publicly consumable statistical reports about the status of blacks in higher education".
Its publisher is headquartered in
Bartonsville, Pennsylvania
Bartonsville is an unincorporated community in Hamilton, Pocono, Jackson and Stroud townships in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States.
History
Bartonsville was founded in 1831 by Colonel Joseph Benjamin Barton when he opened up a hotelGr ...
.
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1993 establishments in the United States
Academic journals published in the United States
African Americans and education
Online magazines published in the United States
Education journals
English-language journals
Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Mass media in Pennsylvania
Publications established in 1993
Quarterly journals
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