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Some College Degrees Pay More than Others

For black Americans in particular, who as a group earn the lowest salaries and have the least in assets compared with other racial groups, future salary earnings must be a consideration when choosing a college major and career.

Pomona College Selects Starr as its New President

Some people just have the right names. G. Gabrielle Starr is certainly one of them. Truly an intellectual star, this scholar of English literature is the first woman and first African American to lead Pomona College, a prestigious liberal arts college in Claremont, California, part of the Claremont Colleges consortium.

More Black Men Need to Earn College Degrees

But what about black women? As it turns out, black women are earning more college degrees (as are women in general). But because fewer black men are earning degrees, the imbalance is affecting all kinds of things, like black marriage rates, economic inequality, and lower wealth attainment.

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