More Minorities Go to College, but Many Don’t Graduate

Even though the number of black and Hispanic students entering college has increased dramatically over the last 30 years, students from these groups still lag well behind white students in earning college degrees, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis.

Michal Kurlaender, assistant professor of education at UC Davis, and co-author Erika Felts, a graduate student in sociology at UC Davis, presented their findings this morning at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City. Their research will also appear in their forthcoming book, “Realizing Bakke’s Legacy.”

In its 1978 decision in “Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a higher education institution could consider race in admissions for the purpose of achieving a diverse student body. In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, ending consideration of race in public education; similar referendums have passed or are under consideration in other states.”*

*From: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu
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