About 110,000 Black women with some college credits but no degree returned to college in 2020, nearly double the number of Black men.
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HBCU stereotypes ‘dampen the light.’ Here’s what people get wrong.
Our six HBCU reporting fellows asked students on their campuses: What do people misunderstand about HBCUs?
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Unpaid internships face new scrutiny as barriers to careers
The opportunities tend to benefit students who are wealthier and white, perpetuating wealth gaps and limiting diversity in key fields.
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Missing home, finding community, and pushing past failure
Three Native women share their stories of getting in and making it through college.
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Sports provide an important but underutilized path to college for Native students
Sports can provide a promising avenue to education for Native students, but they are even more underrepresented in college athletics than they are in higher education.
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How popular merit scholarships have perpetuated racial inequities across the South
The rhetoric from these programs’ advocates has been that they expand opportunity equally, but the reality is that they have not.