White Flight in Higher Education

The other day, I commented in this space on a disturbing new U.S. Department of Education report finding a 42% increase in the proportion of students attending high poverty elementary and secondary schools since 2000.  Black and Latino students attend these schools in disproportionate numbers.

But as I note in a new post in the Chronicle of Higher Education, something similar appears to be happening in higher education: as whites are increasingly fleeing less selective and non-selective schools and African Americans are increasing their representation at those schools.

The research I cite is from a study by Anthony Carnevale and Jeff Strohl, which is part of a forthcoming Century Foundation volume entitled Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College.

For those interested, the book will be released on June 17 at a forum in Washington D.C. featuring Carnevale, former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske, Lois Rice of the Brookings Institution, and William Fitzsimmons of Harvard University.