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ERIC Number: ED594576
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 72
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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Our Separate & Unequal Public Colleges: How Public Colleges Reinforce White Racial Privilege and Marginalize Black and Latino Students
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Van Der Werf, Martin; Quinn, Michael C.; Strohl, Jeff; Repnikov, Dmitri
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
Since 1980, the Black college-going rate has nearly doubled, while the Latino college-going rate has more than doubled. As a result, the Black and Latino share of public college enrollment has grown from 15 percent in 1980 to 35 percent in 2015. However, those impressive college-going gains are not being matched by gains in college completion. Today, even with their elevated college-going rates, Black and Latino students are only about half as likely as Whites to attain a bachelor's degree or higher. In fact, over the past 35 years, as Black and Latino college-going rates have climbed, the deficit in bachelor's degree attainment between Whites and Blacks and Latinos has actually increased from 15 percentage points to 21 percentage points. A reason for the widening deficit: while White students inordinately attend selective four-year public colleges to pursue bachelor's degrees, Black and Latino students in disproportionate numbers go to open-access public colleges, most of them community colleges where the highest possible credential is an associate's degree. This report tracks levels of minority enrollment and postsecondary expenditures in public colleges by state. Public colleges are exclusively looked at for two major reasons: (1) public colleges collectively enroll more than three out of every four college students, and (2) since public colleges are funded significantly by tax dollars, they have missions that include serving all of their states' residents. [For the executive summary, see ED594582.]
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. 3300 Whitehaven Street NW Suite 5000 Box 571444, Washington, DC 20057. Tel: 202-687-4922; Fax: 202-687-3110; e-mail: cewgeorgetown@georgetown.edu; Web site: http://cew.georgetown.edu
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Lumina Foundation; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Joyce Foundation; Annie E. Casey Foundation
Authoring Institution: Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: SAT (College Admission Test); ACT Assessment
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