Though minority groups have become the majority at many community colleges, some non-urban schools say they have difficulty attracting minority students. Seventy-one percent of the leaders believe the enrollment gap between Whites and minorities will either shrink (39 percent) or hold steady (32 percent), as more community colleges become “minority majority” institutions.
Queensborough Community College President Eduardo J. Martí says public support for increasing community college funding is needed to close this enrollment gap.
“It’s an issue of capacity. What you’re really talking about is how willing is society to recognize the societal need for education and how willing is society, meaning taxpayers, to put their money where their mouth is in terms of funding community colleges, which is, after all, the place where most minorities and most of the immigrants are [coming,]” he says.
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