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Why Colleges Already Face Race-Related Challenges In Serving Future Students

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‘There’s a great deal of stratification in terms of where students are enrolling,’ says Mamie Voight, vice president of policy research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. ‘African American, Hispanic, and low-income students tend to be more highly concentrated in community colleges and in for-profit colleges more so than their classmates.’ The same is true for Asian Americans, says Robert Teranishi, a professor of education at UCLA and the director of the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE). The largest concentration of Asian-American students – about half – attends community colleges, he says. It’s also where enrollment of Asian Americans is increasing the fastest.”

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