U.S. Higher Education Deeply Stratified Along Racial Lines, Study Says - Higher Education: Since the mid-1990s, student enrollment in American higher education has grown increasingly stratified along racial lines with White students overwhelmingly populating the “468 most well-funded, selective four-year colleges and universities while African-American and Hispanic students are more and more concentrated in the 3,250 least well-funded, open-access, two- and four-year colleges,” according to a study just released by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW).
In Separate and Unequal: How Higher Education Reinforces the Intergenerational Reproduction of White Racial Privilege, co-authors Dr. Jeff Strohl and Dr. Anthony Carnevale report that White overrepresentation in the nation’s most elite and competitive colleges has been increasing even as the White percentage of college-age students declined from 69 percent to 57 percent between 1995 and 2009. Strohl noted that, at the same time, minority access to the U.S. postsecondary system has grown dramatically.
