Black college students face persistent hurdles, report finds – latimes.com

• Black college students face persistent hurdles, report finds – latimes.com

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  • More black students in California are earning bachelor’s degrees than they were a decade ago, but enrollment in the state’s public universities is stagnant and many are turning to costly for-profit schools, according to a new report.

  • Blacks have the lowest completion rates for freshman and transfer students at all three higher education segments: community colleges, California State University and the University of California.

     

    • Black students are more likely than any other group to attend college without earning a degree.

     

    • In 2012, more black students were enrolled at private, for-profit colleges than at Cal State and UC combined.

     

    • The achievement gap between blacks and whites earning a bachelor’s degree or higher has narrowed by only a percentage point over the last decade. In 2011, about 24% of black adults had obtained a bachelor’s compared with 41% of whites.

  • Reluctance on the part of policymakers and educators to tackle racial disparities head-on is one factor in the persistent gaps, said Michele Siqueiros, executive director of the Campaign for College Opportunity.

  • Educators said they too were disheartened by the lack of progress and argued for more state funding of support services.

  • The report also noted that black adults ages 25 to 34 are less educated than those ages 35 to 64.

  • "It means that we have failed an entire generation of African American students,

  • Many black students are plagued by low incomes and by attending struggling high schools where they receive little academic preparation and counseling for college, said William Franklin, vice president for student success at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

  • Dominguez Hills is seeing success in retention and graduation rates with an intensive program that builds competency in math and English with mentoring and supplemental instruction provided by peers.

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