Black Men (Prison VS College)

SAD SITUATION         From: The Black Star Project <blackstar1000@ameritech.net>      Subject: More Black Men in Prison than College in Illinois In Illinois, More Black Men Are in Prison than in College  With these statistics, who are young Black women going to marry?  Who is going to father children in the Black community?  Who is going to help the Black community compete against the world?  And who really cares? 2007 Black Male Student Enrollment at 22 Colleges in Illinois versus Black Male Imprisonment at 22 Illinois Correctional Centers Illinois                                                  Number of         Percentage of Colleges                                                          Colleges and Universites       Black Male Students      Black Male  Students Art Institute of Chicago                                  41                     1.4%                            Bradley University                                          115                   1.9%                            Columbia College                                            704                    5.9                               Chicago State University                                1,363                20%                             DePaul University                                           663                   2.8%                            Dominican University                                     441                   1.3%                            Eastern Illinois University                              377                   3.1%                            Illinois Institute of Technology                      143                    2%                               Illinois State University                                  385                   1.9%                            Loyola University Chicago                             234                   1.5%                            North Park University                                    113                   3.5%                            Northeastern Illinois University                     410                  3.5%                            Northern Illinois University                            991                  3.99%                          Northwestern University                                 321                   1.7%                            Roosevelt University                                       308                   4.3%                            Southern Illinois University Carbondale        1,524                7.3%                            Southern Illinois University Edwardsville      398                   3%                               University of Chicago                                      287                   2%                               University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign       994                   2.3%                            University of Illinois Chicago                          639                   2.5%                            University of Illinois Springfield                     165                   3.4%                            Western Illinois University                             408                   3.1% Total 11,024                                   Number of         Percentage of  Illinois State                  Black Male       Black Male Correctional Centers    Inmates______  Inmates_____   Big Muddy River CC* 1,110                  60% Centralia CC                 915                     60% Danville CC                  1,093                   60% Dixon CC                      1,298                   60% East Moline CC            684                     60% Graham CC                   1,081                  60% Hill CC                           1,097                  60% Illinois River CC           1,183                  60% Jacksonville CC            908                     60% Lawrence CC                1,198                   60% Logan CC                      1,132                   60% Menard CC                   2,065                   60% Pinckneyville CC          1,313                   60% Pontiac CC                    914                      60% Robinson CC                 719                      60% Shawnee CC                 1,201                    60% Stateville CC                1,952                    60% Tamms CC                    269                      60% Taylorville CC              701                      60% Vandalia CC                 857                      60% Vienna CC                    961                      60% Western Illinois CC     1,207                   60%                Total            23,858   * ("CC" is the abbreviation for Corectional Center.)   According to a 2006 study by The Consortium for School Research at the University of Chicago, only three out of 100 Black male students who attended Chicago public schools were projected to receive a Bachelors Degree by age 25 and, according to a 2008 study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education, only 37% of Black males who attended Chicago public high schools graduated in 2006.  Results for the 2008 Illinois Prairie State Achievement Exam show that only 24.9% of Black eleventh-grade students read at grade level and only 20.3% performed math at grade level.  In Illinois, the average ACT score in 2008 for Black students was 16.8 while Asian Americans scored 23.3.  Most states with significant populations of Black students achieved these similar results. Sixty percent of the Illinois prison population is comprised of Black males. Because individual prisons do not disaggregate racial data, we have attributed 60% of each prison's population to Black men. Most Black men in college are between 18 and 30 years old.  Many, if not most of the Black men in prisons are between 18 and 40 years old. No Illinois community colleges or county jails are included in these statistics.  This information was compiled by The Black Star Project from data provided by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Department of Corrections for 2007.