Topic: Black & Latino Students

As tax-exempt, taxpayer-supported entities, U.S. public colleges and universities should advance the public interest by ensuring all U.S. residents…

Como entidades exentas de impuestos y respaldadas por los contribuyentes, las universidades y los institutos superiores públicos de EE.…

None of Them, According to New Ed Trust Research WASHINGTON (September 11, 2019) — When it comes to enrolling and graduating Latinos, public colleges and universities in most states are…

It’s commencement season. As we honor the thousands of graduating students getting their diplomas, we should pause to consider those who didn’t get the opportunity to attend college, much less…

Remarks delivered by John B. King Jr. at the University of Maryland – Eastern Shore Spring 2019 Commencement.   Introduction Thank you, Aajah, for the kind introduction. Greetings to the…

The NCAA has a new men’s and women’s basketball champion. Congratulations to University of Virginia and Baylor University. In the last days of the tournament, however, I was most struck…

It all started when a Catholic mother of four sons wrote a letter to the editor of the University of Notre Dame newspaper criticizing a group of young women who…

In last year’s briefs, we analyzed national and state data on degree attainment for Black and Latino adults , ages 25-64. Slightly more than 22 percent of Latino adults have…

If America’s public colleges and universities are supposed to be true democratic engines of opportunity and social mobility, their…