White students at public colleges are more likely to graduate than minority students, with remedial education, financial challenges and even a jarring campus culture contributing to the gap. Produced in partnership with the hechingerreport.
White students at Northeastern Illinois University are five times more likely to graduate than Black students and more than three times more likely to graduate than Latino students, according to federal data.are two and a half times more likely to graduate than Black students, and 60 percent more likely to graduate than Latino students.
The state of Illinois has the sharpest disparities between Black and white students and ranks fourth worst for the gap between Latino and white students. Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.
“We give students that chance that other schools won’t give them,” said Gaytán, who this fall took a job at North Park University in Chicago. “But the chance really just meant, ‘We’ll let you in the door.’” Alexis Smith, a senior majoring in communications, began taking remedial courses at a nearby community college in January 2015, and eventually finished her associate degree before transferring to Northeastern Illinois in January 2019.
Ortiz-Licon said it’s often assumed that students will easily adapt to their new environments, but that’s not always true. At Old Dominion University, a public college in Virginia, about one-third of the students are Black, and they graduate at about the same rate as white students. In addition to clubs such as the Ebony Impact Gospel Choir, an association for Black engineering students and Brother 2 Brother for Black and Latino male students, there is a coalition of Black faculty and staff that offers mentoring and advising to Black students and a similar coalition to help Latino students.
“Unless you have someone who can guide you through that process, it’s very hard to get into higher ed and navigate the system.” Project Success students also get priority consideration for the university’s summer transition programs, for students who want to develop a stronger foundation in specific academic subjects or get an early taste of college.
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