{"id":2062,"date":"2018-05-08T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2018-05-03T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:48:48","slug":"study-students-of-color-disproportionately-affected-by-inequitable-college-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/05\/08\/study-students-of-color-disproportionately-affected-by-inequitable-college-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Students of Color Disproportionately Affected by Inequitable College Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students of color are facing yet another barrier to college access and success.<\/p>\n

A recent study from the Center for American Progress (CAP)<\/a> found that two-year and four-year public colleges spend about $1,000 less per year on students of color than on white students. Collectively, this means public colleges are spending about $5 billion less per year on these students than on their white counterparts.<\/p>\n

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There are two primary reasons for this, according to CAP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First, most state policies give more funding to more selective, research colleges than to community and four-year colleges, making the resources at these schools more limited.<\/p>\n

Second, students of color are often overrepresented at these schools, primarily due to a lack of resources in the underfunded K-12 schools they were most likely to attend. Additionally, students of color are often from low-income families, making it harder to afford the more selective colleges.<\/p>\n

All of this creates a vicious cycle.<\/p>\n

Dollars don\u2019t necessarily determine outcomes, but a recent Harvard study<\/a> found that a 10 percent increase in total college spending can generate an additional 55 bachelor\u2019s degrees per year at a typical four-year university.<\/p>\n

Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students of color are facing yet another barrier to college access and success. A recent study from the Center for American Progress (CAP) found that two-year and four-year public colleges spend about $1,000 less per year on students of color than on white students. Collectively, this means public colleges are spending about $5 billion less … Continue reading Study: Students of Color Disproportionately Affected by Inequitable College Spending<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-xg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}