ERIC Number: EJ1353576
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 37
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-1546
EISSN: EISSN-1538-4640
Recruitment Redlining by Public Research Universities in the Los Angeles and Dallas Metropolitan Areas
Salazar, Karina G.
Journal of Higher Education, v93 n4 p585-621 2022
Given racial inequality in the United States is grounded in policies and practices that have historically governed where People of Color live, where colleges go and do not go to recruit prospective students may be an important source of racial inequality in college access. This study examines the spatial distribution of out-of-state recruiting visits to public high schools in the Los Angeles and Dallas metropolitan areas by four public research universities. I develop a conceptual framework that incorporates concepts from critical geography and whiteness as property (Harris, 1993) to ground recruiting visits within each metropolitan areas' sociohistorical spatial politcs. Descriptive statistics and geospatial visualizations reveal that schools in White communities are more likely to receive a recruiting visit, receive multiple visits by each university, and receive visits by more than one university than schools in Communities of Color with comparable income and educational achievement characteristics. Findings also suggest that universities in the study engage in "recruitment redlining"--the circuitous avoidance of predominantly Black and Latinx communities along recruiting visit paths--by mimicking systemic relations of power and racism within geographic space that contribute to the social, economic, and educational disenfranchisement of Communities of Color.
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Research Universities, Student Recruitment, Social Discrimination, Educational Opportunities, Public Schools, High Schools, Minority Groups, Geographic Regions, Enrollment Management, Racial Distribution, Equal Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles); Texas (Dallas)
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