Study: Desegregation Has Slowed On College Campuses CBS DC: The growing diversity of the U.S. population is not being reflected in America’s college campuses.
A recent study from professor Peter Hinrichs of Georgetown University finds that while desegregation has led to massive changes on college campuses since the 1960s, diversity has actually slowed down in the decades since then.
“There’s basically less segregation over time, but it was falling faster in the late ’60s and early ’70s,” Hinrichs, an assistant professor of public policy, told The Huffington Post. “Now it’s a little bit closer to the case of perfect integration, but still not anywhere near that,” he said.
The study focuses on black and white students, not those in other racial and ethnic groups, and he examines “exposure” and “dissimilarity” of black and white students as two measures of desegregation. Hinrichs uses federal data from every college, filed since the era in which desegregation started in the 1960s.
The study used a two-pronged method of analysis to derive its diversity data.
