Tag: Educational Access

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Study: Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment

Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree and Latino adults are only half as likely – with both groups attaining degrees at a lower rate in 2016 than White adults did back in 1990, according to a new report by The Education Trust.

June 18, 2018

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Nguyen Draws on Experience to Start Repairing Education Inequities

Dr. Thai-Huy Nguyen, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, says he will function as a navigator to steer disadvantaged community college students through a system for which they are largely unfamiliar.

February 21, 2017

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Students Push Ivy League to Drop Fee for Needy Applicants

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Ivy League students are asking their schools to automatically waive the application fee for applicants who are low-income or the first in their family to attend college. A letter to the Ivies was penned by Brown University senior Viet Nguyen. Nguyen leads the undergraduate student government at Brown and asked student government […]

February 15, 2017

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Education Secretary Bluntly Addresses Racial Disparities

In what were perhaps his most intentional comments to date on race, Arne Duncan addressed the disparities in educational access and correctional patterns within a decidedly racial framework.

September 30, 2015