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Article: Black Student Graduation Rates at the Nation's Selective Liberal Arts Colleges Are Much Higher Than the Nationwide Average
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Black students at the highly selective liberal arts colleges have a relatively high graduation rate. The gap in graduation rates at these schools between blacks and whites is considerably smaller than the national average.
Once more, we turn to the critical and always depressing issue of the huge gap in higher education graduation rates between blacks and whites.
Here is the current situation. As has often been reported in this journal, the nationwide black student college graduation rate is severely below the rate for white students. Now, a new report from the Department of Education offers a somewhat different, but still highly disappointing, perspective on the black-white college ...