Civil Rights Project: California Maintains Segregated Community College System

Civil Rights Project: California Maintains Segregated Community College System: The vast majority of Black and Latino students in California are being subjected to a “segregated” community college system where very few transfer to four-year institutions, researchers charged Tuesday as they released three reports that shine light on the problem.

The entire system needs to be revamped, the researchers at UCLA’s Civil Rights Project said, and new policies must be crafted that will lead to greater ethnic and racial parity.

“Higher education (in California) needs to be re-examined and changed at each level of the process,” said Dr. Gary Orfield, professor in the Graduate School of Education, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA and a co-author of one of the reports. “We need to think very consciously about racial equality in making policies.”