“Interesting” was the furthest that two diversity experts would go in describing the study, titled “A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom.” The study was conducted by three economics professors affiliated with the Cambridge, Mass.-based National Bureau of Economic Research.
Using administrative data described as “detailed demographic information on instructors as well as students from one of the largest and most ethnically diverse community colleges in the United States, this study is the first to test whether minority instructors have a positive effect on the academic achievement of minority students at the college level,” the study states.
