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Hispanic Link - A major new report on higher education has found that Hispanics and African-Americans are completing college at rates far below those of their white counterparts. The study also revealed that rates of non-white and low-income students receiving bachelor's degrees have seen little increase over the past 30 years.
The analysis was released by the Access to Success Initiative, a project run by the heads of the 24 U.S. college and university systems with support from The Education Trust, a national organization that works to promote academic achievement.
Survey results clearly show that non-white and low-income young adults are having far more difficulty receiving their degrees than are white students. While 36% of white young adults are attaining a bachelor’s degree, the rate is only 20% for blacks and 12% for Latinos. Once in college, students of color are much less likely than their white counterparts to graduate. An estimated six in ten white students earn bachelor’s degrees within six years, compared with only about four in ten students of color.
The report also found that the gaps separating Latino and African-American students from their white peers are wider today than in 1975. Thirty years ago, 24% of white young adults attained a bachelor’s degree, a figure more than double that of blacks (11%) and two and a half times that of Latinos (9%).
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The analysis was released by the Access to Success Initiative, a project run by the heads of the 24 U.S. college and university systems with support from The Education Trust, a national organization that works to promote academic achievement.
Survey results clearly show that non-white and low-income young adults are having far more difficulty receiving their degrees than are white students. While 36% of white young adults are attaining a bachelor’s degree, the rate is only 20% for blacks and 12% for Latinos. Once in college, students of color are much less likely than their white counterparts to graduate. An estimated six in ten white students earn bachelor’s degrees within six years, compared with only about four in ten students of color.
The report also found that the gaps separating Latino and African-American students from their white peers are wider today than in 1975. Thirty years ago, 24% of white young adults attained a bachelor’s degree, a figure more than double that of blacks (11%) and two and a half times that of Latinos (9%).
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Labels: COLLEGE, MINORITIES
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Interesting report. One problem with it though is that it fails to distinguish between male and female minority populations, and there is an enormous and growing difference between their success in pursuing higher education. For instance, it's black males whose rates of completing college are declining. Those of black women are very definitely on the rise. Significantly so. And the same holds true for all minority groups. Well, in fact for all groups, including whites. Women are going to and succeeding at college at a much higher rate than men. They now constitute the majority of students from all groups, and at all levels of college. So a lot of these statistics we're seeing are rather deceptive.
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