Dive Brief:
- Seven college and university research centers focused on minority issues and education equality have issued a report with recommendations on improving outcomes for boys and men of color.
- Among the report's recommendations are creating a national clearinghouse of “exemplary studies, practices and policies” on male minority education issues and creating a National Center for Education Statistics data set that tracks minority males from K-12 through postsecondary levels of education.
- Other recommendations include having colleges and universities track their own student outcomes, breaking the data down to better understand performance and graduate rates of black and Latino males.
Dive Insight:
The report notes that at four-year colleges, 33.2% of black males and 44.8% of Latino males earn a bachelor’s degree within six years, compared to 57.1% for whites and 64.2% for Asians. For two-year colleges, the rates of certification, graduation, or transfer are 32.1% and 30.2% for black and Latino males, respectively, compared to 39.8% and 43.4% for white and Asian males, respectively. The research centers behind the report are from the University of Pennsylvania, San Diego State University, Morehouse College, the University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, University of California-Los Angeles, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.