Report: Minority College Enrollment Growing
Black and Hispanic students are enrolling in college at higher rates since 1991, but they have failed to catch up with the proportion of white students pursuing higher education, according to a report released last week.
The report from the American Council on Education, a Washington-based umbrella group for higher education, says the number of African-Americans enrolled as undergraduates increased by 36 percent, to nearly 1.8 million, from 1991 to 2001, the most recent year for which federal data were available. Hispanic enrollment had the highest rate of growth in the period, up just over 75 percent. Asian-American enrollment increased by 54 percent in the decade, while American Indian enrollment grew by 35 percent.
The report also looks at participation rates, which are calculated by dividing the number of individuals in a racial or ethnic group who are enrolled in college with the total...
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