Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

CTL-E-5847 · Publication · journal · 1993–present

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Combined Graph record U-07103 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5847.

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) is a publication founded in 1993 as a quarterly concerned with African Americans in academia and with racial equity in United States higher education. Its founder and longtime editor-in-chief was Theodore Cross, a civil rights advocate and businessman; Robert Bruce Slater served as managing editor and is the editor named in the journal's reference listings. The journal built its reputation on institution-by-institution statistical reporting on Black students and faculty, and scholars Rhonda Sharpe and William Darity have called it a key resource for publicly consumable statistical reports on the status of Blacks in higher education. Print publication ended with the spring issue in 2010, after Cross's death that February; the 1993–2010 issues are archived on JSTOR, and JBHE has continued publishing on its website and through a weekly bulletin.

The record

• Also known as: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, JBHE

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 8; first Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Journal of Blacks in Higher Education entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5847 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan sample, readiness rank 2078 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #109). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — the reference journal of record for Black enrollment, faculty, and equity data in U.S. higher education; core Black media and knowledge-infrastructure scope. Vital status: n/a (Publication). Founder Theodore Cross is deceased (2010, per sources above); no vital claim is made for Robert Bruce Slater in this record. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): established as a quarterly in 1993 (print ISSN 1077-3711); last print issue appeared in 2010, a 17-year print run, with 1993–2010 issues archived on JSTOR and publishing continuing online. CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: the intake premise named Robert Bruce Slater as founder; every sourced account consulted credits founder Theodore (Ted) Cross, with Slater as managing editor — this record follows the sources (CTL-GOV-004). MEDIA: photo HELD (a JBHE print-era issue cover named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5847-journal-of-blacks-in-higher-education.svg); video HELD (no matching CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no recording with a CTL rights basis staged). PROVISIONAL GAP: verification is Provisional because the intake premise's founder attribution (Slater) is contradicted by all sourced accounts (Cross); the record states the sourced position and shows the conflict rather than blending it, and founder review is invited at merge. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No podcast, broadcast, or other recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Sources

• Chronicle of Higher Education, "'Journal of Blacks in Higher Education' to Cease Print Publication" (2010) — quarterly for 17 years, founder Theodore L. Cross (died February 28, aged 86), managing editor Robert Bruce Slater, print ending spring 2010 with web and bulletin continuing — https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/journal-of-blacks-in-higher-education-to-cease-print-publication (build store)
• Black Enterprise, "Theodore Lamont Cross: Researcher of Blacks In Higher Education Remembered" (April 4, 2010) — Cross founded JBHE in 1993; Slater quoted as managing editor — https://www.blackenterprise.com/researcher-of-blacks-in-higher-education-remembered/ (build store)
• Wikipedia, "The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education" (accessed 2026-10-16) — established as a quarterly in 1993 by Theodore Cross, edited by Robert Bruce Slater, ISSN 1077-3711, last print issue 2010, 1993–2010 issues on JSTOR — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Blacks_in_Higher_Education (build store)
• Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, "About JBHE" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the journal's own statement of its statistical, institution-by-institution mission — https://jbhe.com/about/ (primary source · build store)

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