The Unfinished Agenda: Ensuring Success for Students of
Color
Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation
ACE’s The Unfinished Agenda: Ensuring Success
for Students of Color initiative aims to equip college and
university leaders with information and strategies to help them ensure
not just access to higher education, but the success for underserved
minority college students.
For more than three decades, America’s colleges
and universities have made determined efforts to create racially diverse
campuses. Despite improvements, participation and persistence rates for
African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students continue to lag
behind those of white students. As a result, enrolling and graduating
underrepresented minority students remains a perennial issue. The highly
visible Supreme Court cases involving admissions decisions at the
University of Michigan called additional attention to an already
important issue. However, access to higher education for students of
color is only part of the equation. Ensuring that students of color are
successful academically is the ultimate objective. The difficult fact
remains that it does a student little or no good to matriculate if he or
she does not succeed, regardless of institution or program.
To this end, ACE is seeking to place a focus on the
success of students of color high on institutions’ agendas.
Success is broadly defined to include not only persistence and
graduation rates, but also other indicators such as equity in GPAs,
participation in honor societies and awards, and postgraduate
experiences (such as enrollment in professional and graduate degree
programs). ACE is producing a series of occasional papers that address
different dimensions of ensuring the success of students of color.
For more information about this project, contact:
Peter
Eckel, Project Director
E-mail: peter_eckel@ace.nche.edu
Phone: (202) 939-9444
Fax: (202) 785-8056
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