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Assistant Professor Shaun Harper discusses Black Male Achievement and his on going research in the Penn GSE environment. Despite barriers restricting their educational opportunities, the number of African-Americans with bachelor’s degrees increased dramatically between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. census. Forty-eight percent more black people age 25 and over held at least a bachelor’s degree by the end of the decade. The growth meant that in 2010, 18.2 of every 100 U.S. blacks in that age bracket had a bachelor’s degree, compared to 14.3 of every 100 in 2000.
Across the board — whether its Ivy League schools, the Big 10, or other schools — one thing for sure is that there are more blacks on college campuses,” Kaba says.
The educational progress of African-Americans is part of a long term national trend, that’s been documented by the census since 1940, when the bureau began collecting data about educational attainment.
At the end of the Civil War, only 28 of the nation’s nearly 4 million freed slaves had received bachelor’s degrees from American colleges, according to research by Shaun R. Harper – a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education — and others.
By 1940, 1.3 in every 100 African-Americans held bachelor’s degrees nationwide. The biggest 10-year national gain in bachelor’s degrees among African-Americans occurred between 1970 and 1980, when bachelor’s degree-holders per capita nearly doubled to 8.4 in 100.
More recently, Kaba says, President Barack Obama’s administration has taken steps that promote higher education for African-Americans and others, by providing more federal Pell grants and more funding to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In February 2010, the President signed an executive order that directs $850 million to HBCUs during the next 10 years, representing a $100 million.
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