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African Americans are enrolling in college at the highest numbers in the nation’s history. And many of those students are going on to graduate. According to figures released by the...
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African Americans are enrolling in college at the highest numbers in the nation’s history. And many of those students are going on to graduate. According to figures released by the...
By 2020, President Barack Obama envisions America leading the world in producing college graduates; however, achieving such a goal may be easier said than done as the achievement gap continues to widen between blacks and whites.
“Do we all want more low-income students? Sure, but we would go into financial ruin,’’ Pérez recently told Jon Marcus of The Hechinger Report, crystallizing a key reason why college campuses like Trinity too often are largely the purview only of those who can afford them—and why Hechinger Report’s recent Divided We Learn project found that poor and minority students are drastically and increasingly underrepresented in key areas of higher education.
If a solid college education is a necessary journey on the path to wealth and prosperity, then African Americans are being derailed, according to new data that delves into closing the graduation gap between African Americans at four-year institutions and their white peers.
Notre Dame hoops star Olivia Miles has decided to enter the transfer portal.