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  2. Minority-serving institution - Wikipedia

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    For example, a report from the U.S. Department of Education on the characteristics of MSIs [2] defined MSI based on either of two separate criteria; 1) legislation (e.g. HBCU, TCU, or 2) percentage of minority undergraduate enrollment based on IPEDS data [3] (i.e. "institutions that enroll at least 25 percent of a specific minority group are ...

  3. Tribal colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Tensions immediately arose between advocates of two philosophies: one that the tribal colleges should have the same criteria, curriculum, and procedures for educational quality as mainstream colleges, and the other that the faculty and curriculum should be closely adapted to the particular historical culture of a tribe.

  4. Racial achievement gap in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...

  5. ‘A minority within a minority’: These Pacific Islander ...

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    Spaces like this student group make a difference for Pacific Islander college students, where they are often one of the smallest populations within higher education settings, according to Equity ...

  6. Historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    The new junior colleges began as extensions of black high schools. They used the same facilities and often the same faculty. Some built their own buildings after a few years. After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandated an end to school segregation, the colleges were all abruptly closed. Only a fraction of the students and faculty ...

  7. What stands in the way for minority college students trying ...

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    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.

  8. 'A Tyranny of the Minority': Why This College Dropout Wants ...

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  9. Educational inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.