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As noted in Raymond Winbushs book The Warrior Method: A Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys (Amistad Press, 2001): The life expectancy of African American males in Washington, D.C. is 57.3 years. Only seven other nations in the world have a lower life expectancy for their male population: Bangladesh (53.5), Ethiopia (51.5), Myanmar (54.5), Pakistan (56.5), Sudan (53.0), Tanzania (52.5), and Zaire (54.0). A black male has a 1 in 20 chance of being imprisoned while in his twenties. A black male has a 1 in 2 chance of not attending college even if he graduates from high school. A black male has a 1 in 3,700 chance of getting a Ph.D. in mathematics, engineering, or the natural sciences. A black male has a 1 in 766 chance of becoming an attorney. A black male has a 1 in 395 chance of becoming a physician. Bridging The Black Research Gap, An Integrated Academic and Research Capacity Building Primer, recommends a series of fundamental shifts in behavior, actions, priorities and investments that are critical to move our nations longstanding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to their rightful place, as some of the best public/private research-oriented universities in America. HBCUs have become substantially more complex in their emerging and distinctive roles as comprehensive research universities. HBCUs aim to discipline how they transform and evolve their leadership, development, management, and support of integrated academics and research inside: (1) increasing constraints on future Federal funding, (2) shifting demands from fundamental to developmental research across government, industry, and philanthropic funding sources, (3) growing dynamics of Federal regulations and compliance in the years ahead, and (4) rising pressure on university research administration as brokers of innovation to facilitate the translation of innovation into benefits for society and public understanding. Bridging The Black Research Gap proposes a systematic, measurable, accountable, and aggressive pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities increasing scholarly research productivity of HBCU principal investigators, interdisciplinary groups, centers and institutes, and developmental teams working across many of HBCUs comprehensive research centers, institutes, schools and colleges.
