The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 21, 2007
Minority Enrollment Is Up, Particularly at 2-Year Colleges, Report Says
By KELLY FIELD
Chronicle of Higher Education
More minority students are enrolling in college, and they're increasingly choosing two-year institutions, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
The report, "Tuition Continues to Rise, but Patterns Vary by Institution Type, Enrollment, and Educational Expenditures," which was requested by U.S. Rep. George Miller, Democrat of California, found that enrollments of Hispanic students at American colleges and universities grew by 25 percent between the 2000-1 and 2006-7 academic years, while enrollment among African-American students and Asian and Pacific Islander students both increased by 15 percent. The enrollment growth for white students was less than 3 percent.
The report also found that African-American and Hispanic college students were more likely to attend two-year colleges last year than they had been 12 years earlier. Between the 1995-96 academic year and the 2006-7 academic year, the share of Hispanic students enrolled in four-year institutions declined by two percentage points, while the share enrolled in two-year colleges increased by four percentage points. Over the same period, African-American students' enrollment in four-year institutions fell by three percentage points, while their enrollment in two-year colleges grew by the same amount.
By 2006-7, 60 percent of all Hispanic college students were enrolled in two-year colleges, as were 50 percent of African-American , Asian/Pacific Islander and Alaskan Native students, and 43 percent of white students...
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