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HBCUs & MSIsTiffany Jones, PhD @TiffanyJonesPhD

Amanda Assalone, PhD @assalone1

College Going Rates for Black/Latino

Students: Secondary

• Among college students ages 18 to 24, Hispanics accounted for 18% of college enrollment in 2013, up from 12% as recently as 2009, according to the new census data.

• Young Hispanics still lag behind in earning four-year college degrees. Hispanic students account for just 9% of young adults (ages 25 to 29) with a bachelor’s degree. By comparison, whites account for about 58% of students ages 18 to 24 enrolled in college and 69% of young adults with a bachelor’s degree.

(Frye, 2014)

https://www.census.gov/hhes/school/data/cps/historical/index.html

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/04/24/more-hispanics-blacks-enrolling-in-college-but-lag-in-bachelors-degrees/

College Going Rates for Black/Latino Students: Secondary

• The dropout rate for black youth at a record low in 2013 (8%) and has fallen by nearly half since 2000 (15%). Blacks comprised 16% of the nation’s public school students in 2013, with that share projected to fall to 15% by 2022.

• Among non-Hispanic white youth, the dropout rate has also declined since 2000 to 5% in 2013.

• Asian youth continue to be the major racial group with the lowest high school dropout rate (4% in 2013).

(Frye, 2014)

College Going Rates for Black/Latino

Students: Post-secondary

• Educational attainment: In 2013, about 40 percent of whites between the

ages of 25 and 29 had a bachelor’s degree or more, compared to about 20

percent of blacks, 15 percent of Hispanics and 58 percent of Asians.

• Of students who entered college in 2005, the most recent data available, 62

percent of whites got a degree within six years, versus 40 percent of blacks

and 51 percent of Hispanics.

(NCES, 2014)

Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs)

Two- and Four-year colleges and universities,

meet criteria in title III, IV, or V of the Higher Education Act.

•Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)

•Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI)

•Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU)

•Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNH)

•Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI)

•Predominately Black Institutions (PBI)

•Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions

(AANAPISI)

MSIs, Providing Access to College

•MSIs: The role of minority-serving institutions in providing access and

contributing to outcomes for minority students is important. While these

institutions are not the sole provider of education for minority students, they do

educate significant numbers of them.

•MSIs enroll over half of all racial/ethnic minority students.

•Pell Grant Recipients

•Developmental Education

(Project Males, 2014)

Who are they serving?

In 2012, MSIs awarded certificates and degrees to nearly 250,000

Black, Latino, and Native American undergraduates,

representing 40% and 21% of the total credentials

awarded to Latino and Black students respectively.

(Cunningham, Park, & Engle, 2014)

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities(HBCUs)

• There are currently 103 historically black colleges and universities (51

private, 52 public) in 19 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin

Islands.

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities(HBCUs)

•16 two-year HBCUs

•HBCUs are defined by federal law as institutions of higher education with the

principal mission of educating African Americans. These colleges must have

been founded before 1964.

(Harper, 2012)

HBCU Diversity

• Public vs. Private: 51 private vs. 52 public

• Small vs. Large: HBCUs range in size with larger HBCUs having student

population of approximately 12,000 (FAMU), 10,000 (NCAT) and 10,000

(Howard) and the smaller HBCUs with enrollments of 200 (Paul Quinn

College) and 120 (Shorter College).

• Featured Programs: Many HBCUs offer specialized undergraduate, graduate

and professional school programs.

• Morehouse School of Medicine

• Meharry Medical College

• NCCU Law School

• FAMU Law School

• Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine

HBCU Students

•Today, 80 percent of HBCU students are African-American, and about 70

percent of students come from families with low enough incomes to qualify for

federal Pell Grants.

•NIH data showing that the nation's top 10 producers of undergraduates who

go on to earn doctorates in science and engineering are historically black

colleges.

•HBCU Xavier University is #1 nationally in placing African-Americans into

medical school.

•HBCU Howard University is #1 in graduating African-American PhDs.

HBCU Students

•HBCU Tuskegee graduates 70 percent of Black veterinarians in the United

States.

•Half of the nation’s black engineers graduate from an HBCU. With programs

as small as 120 students per class to programs with 2,300 like the one at

Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering.

•More than 50% of the nation’s African American public school teachers and

70% of African American dentists earned degrees at HBCUs. Among Blacks, 40

percent of all congressmen, 12.5 percent of CEOs, 40 percent of engineers, 50

percent of professors at non-HBCUs, 50 percent of lawyers and 80 percent of

judges are HBCU graduates.

HBCU STEM Degrees

(Jones, 2014)

HBCU Students

Factors Influencing HBCU Choice among

Black Students

(Freeman, 1997)

(Freeman, 1999)

College Experience at MSIs

•Supportive Faculty

•Supportive Peers (peer network)

•Peer and adult mentors and role models

•Relationships with faculty and administration

•Extended family

•Social capital

•Culturally relevant education

•Developmental education

•High standards

(Harper, 2012)

(Gasman & Conrad, 2015)

Black/Latino College Experience at MSIs

•A (2014) study by Flores & Park found that MSIs graduated comparable Black

and Latino students at the same rates as PWIs

•After controlling for Pell funding and SAT scores, a 2012 UNCF Study found

that HBCUs do a better job ensuring that low-income students graduate than

other schools.

(Richards & Awokoya, 2012)

Where to find information about MSIs

• Tool: Educational Trust College Results Online (http://www.collegeresults.org/)

• College Scorecard

• HBCU Data Dashboard

• Diverse Education.com/top100

• Student Achievement Measures

• College Results Online

• Excelencia in Education

• United Negro College Fund (UNCF)

• Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF)

http://www.collegeresults.org/

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