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A new report finds that the share of Black men studying at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has dropped to about 26%, which concerns many and has prompted HBCUs to increase efforts to attract and retain Black male students. #GreatCollegeAdvice #HBCUs
A new report finds that the share of Black men studying at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has dropped to about 26%, which concerns many and has prompted HBCUs to increase efforts to attract and retain Black male students. #GreatCollegeAdvice #HBCUs
Professor of Medicine, Wright State University BSOM, Adjunct Faculty Biomedical Engineering, Wright State University, Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Clinician, Researcher, Teacher, Mentor, Board of Director
🚨 **Black Enrollment Declines at Elite Colleges Post-Affirmative Action Ruling** 🚨 The recent wave of anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives, along with the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling that ended affirmative action, is already showing its impact on Black enrollment at elite U.S. institutions. According to today’s WSJ article by Melissa Korn: 📉 **MIT** reported a sharp **10% decrease** in Black student enrollment, while **Amherst College** saw an **8% drop** in its share of Black first-year students. **Tufts University** also experienced a moderate decline. This trend signals a significant challenge to maintaining racial diversity in the absence of affirmative action policies, particularly at the nation’s top-tier universities. While some public institutions, such as the **University of Virginia**, saw only slight dips in Black student numbers, these steep declines at elite private schools highlight growing disparities in access to higher education for Black Americans. As we navigate this post-affirmative-action landscape, how can institutions uphold their commitment to diversity and inclusion? 🤔 #HigherEducation #DEI #AffirmativeAction #CollegeAdmissions #DiversityMatters #InclusiveEducation #LinkedInLearning #EducationForAll #BlackExcellence #StudentSuccess 🔗 Read more on the data behind these trends: [Link]
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a 14.8% decrease in black male undergraduate enrollment overall, and a 23.5% decrease in black male enrollment in 2 year programs. Black men had the largest drop in undergraduate enrollment during that period out of all demographics. Consider the impacts of the Supreme Court ruling on race-based admissions. Some schools, such as MIT, Brown, and Harvard, are reporting significant decreases in black student enrollment as compared to classes in the past. More data is needed to determine the overall impact of the decision. These two issues could have a terribly disruptive effect on black students', particularly black men, academic and economic achievement. What will the black medical or law student population look like in five years? What about black lawyers, doctors, and other professionals 5, 10, and 15 years from now? Efforts to address diversity in higher education must account for these and other factors to be effective. Such efforts must not apply blanket solutions to all black people. An intersectional approach accounting for race AND gender must be used so that the unique needs of all black students are accounted for. What works for black women may not necessarily work for black men, and vice versa. Diversity efforts at the professional level must also take into account these factors that disrupt the pipeline from Kindergarten through college to the office or operating room. Programs that work at the tail end of the pipeline need to be adjusted or developed to complement programs meant to reach students earlier on in the pipeline. This requires coordination between organizations to prevent conflict between different programs and ensure more complete coverage over the students/professionals who need access to such programs. #diversity #DEI #education #law https://lnkd.in/eqyH8XgB
Implementation Specialist @ National Student Clearinghouse | Enrollment Management Expert
Over the past few weeks, a noticeable trend has emerged in higher education as selective colleges report a decline in first-time Black student enrollment, attributed to the 2023 affirmative action ban. However, amidst this challenge, Historically Black colleges and universities are experiencing a surge in applicants and new students this fall. Learn more about this shift in student interest... #HigherEducation #DiversityandInclusion #HBCUs
Educational Equity Champion, Leadership Developer, Author, Keynote Speaker, Curriculum Reviewer, Critical Literacy Theorist,
When systems power protect, the MOST marginalized will ALWAYS lose. These outcomes are exactly what was to be expected because this is the outcomes certain folks wanted. The ground keeps shifting and following history let us KNOW this was on the horizon. We MUST be prepared at EVERY level. #StopPowerProtecting #HistoryRepeats
Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has led to a *significant* drop in the percentage of Black students coming into highly selective colleges this year. Amherst College, a nearly three-fourth drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 3% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 11% MIT, a two-thirds drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 5% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 15% Tufts University, a one-third drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 4.7% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 7.3% The percentage of incoming Latinx students also declined significantly at Amherst and MIT. The percentage of Asian students slightly increased at Amherst and slightly decreased at Tufts. Meanwhile, the percentage of incoming White students rose at both Amherst and Tufts, which appears to have been the goal all along of the Supreme Court Justices and Edward Blum who brought this case before them. The SCOTUS ruling didn’t create an equitable application process for all students no matter their race or class. The SCOTUS ruling further rigged the process to admit more wealthy White students while telling Black, Latinx, Native, MENA, Pacific Islander students—and low and middle income White and Asian students that they didn’t get admitted to that highly selective college because there is something wrong with them. This is the racist American way these days. Claiming the most disadvantaged groups are the most advantaged. Reframing antiracist efforts that create equal opportunity as unjust. Passing measures and making rulings that end up further excluding disadvantaged groups from the most coveted spaces. Telling them they are excluded because there’s something wrong with them (and not the measures and rulings). Calling those measures and rulings and ideas “not racist.” Rinse and repeat.
Community Organizing for Prevention, Manager at Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
“This is the racist American way these days. Claiming the most disadvantaged groups are the most advantaged. Reframing antiracist efforts that create equal opportunity as unjust. Passing measures and making rulings that end up further excluding disadvantaged groups from the most coveted spaces. Telling them they are excluded because there’s something wrong with them (and not the measures and rulings). Calling those measures and rulings and ideas “not racist.” Rinse and repeat.” This paragraph is fire! There is nothing wrong with us. Affirmative action has never meant “not qualified” or “inferior”. If that is your first thought, I’d recommend looking inward at why you would assume those things. Besides time and again have shown ⚪️ women to be the biggest beneficiaries of current affirmative action and ⚪️ men were the biggest beneficiaries before that. I’m referring to laws and practices that barred women and BIPOC freedoms for a remarkable amount of time in our history while opportunity and freedom were not denied to white men with a few exceptions for brief periods. Think I’m wrong? Then tell me why we needed the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments if everyone had freedom from the very beginning! Also consider that legalized discrimination has been uphold by courts to this day. That long history cemented twisted superiority mindsets that have gone unchallenged. It’s time to change!
Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has led to a *significant* drop in the percentage of Black students coming into highly selective colleges this year. Amherst College, a nearly three-fourth drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 3% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 11% MIT, a two-thirds drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 5% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 15% Tufts University, a one-third drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 4.7% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 7.3% The percentage of incoming Latinx students also declined significantly at Amherst and MIT. The percentage of Asian students slightly increased at Amherst and slightly decreased at Tufts. Meanwhile, the percentage of incoming White students rose at both Amherst and Tufts, which appears to have been the goal all along of the Supreme Court Justices and Edward Blum who brought this case before them. The SCOTUS ruling didn’t create an equitable application process for all students no matter their race or class. The SCOTUS ruling further rigged the process to admit more wealthy White students while telling Black, Latinx, Native, MENA, Pacific Islander students—and low and middle income White and Asian students that they didn’t get admitted to that highly selective college because there is something wrong with them. This is the racist American way these days. Claiming the most disadvantaged groups are the most advantaged. Reframing antiracist efforts that create equal opportunity as unjust. Passing measures and making rulings that end up further excluding disadvantaged groups from the most coveted spaces. Telling them they are excluded because there’s something wrong with them (and not the measures and rulings). Calling those measures and rulings and ideas “not racist.” Rinse and repeat.
This is the effect and desired outcome of white supremacy. All of us have to abandon the addiction to the perceived benefits of white supremacy. My course, Creative Explorations of Whiteness without White Supremacy, seeks to help people work though issues of white supremacy drawing on the scholarship of Tema Okun, Jacqueline Battalora, and the everyday praxis of IBPOC people. https://lnkd.in/gYUD3sEN
Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has led to a *significant* drop in the percentage of Black students coming into highly selective colleges this year. Amherst College, a nearly three-fourth drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 3% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 11% MIT, a two-thirds drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 5% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 15% Tufts University, a one-third drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 4.7% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 7.3% The percentage of incoming Latinx students also declined significantly at Amherst and MIT. The percentage of Asian students slightly increased at Amherst and slightly decreased at Tufts. Meanwhile, the percentage of incoming White students rose at both Amherst and Tufts, which appears to have been the goal all along of the Supreme Court Justices and Edward Blum who brought this case before them. The SCOTUS ruling didn’t create an equitable application process for all students no matter their race or class. The SCOTUS ruling further rigged the process to admit more wealthy White students while telling Black, Latinx, Native, MENA, Pacific Islander students—and low and middle income White and Asian students that they didn’t get admitted to that highly selective college because there is something wrong with them. This is the racist American way these days. Claiming the most disadvantaged groups are the most advantaged. Reframing antiracist efforts that create equal opportunity as unjust. Passing measures and making rulings that end up further excluding disadvantaged groups from the most coveted spaces. Telling them they are excluded because there’s something wrong with them (and not the measures and rulings). Calling those measures and rulings and ideas “not racist.” Rinse and repeat.
Inaugural Kara J. Trott Professor in Law at the Moritz College of Law; Co-Founder and a faculty affiliate of The Institute for Healing Justice & Equity
Exactly. And what makes it even worse is that the plaintiffs in the affirmative action case challenged legacy policies as well as the affirmative action policies in their case before the Supreme Court. The plaintiff’s brief actually highlights that legacy policies disproportionately benefit White individuals and are unfair. This is not surprising because legacy policies were explicitly and intentionally created to keep Black, Catholic, Jewish and other racial and ethnic minority individuals from prestigious colleges. However, the Supreme Court willfully ignored this challenge and history of legacy policies leaving these policies in place as it struck down policies concerning affirmative action in college admissions. Thus, the opinion did exactly what is was supposed to do, which is legalize and foster a separate and unequal higher educational system, which is Jim Crow 3.0. This has been exacerbated by all the institutions that have applied the ruling to all admissions practices, even though the Supreme Court was clear that it was ONLY ruling on college admissions NOT graduate admissions.
Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has led to a *significant* drop in the percentage of Black students coming into highly selective colleges this year. Amherst College, a nearly three-fourth drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 3% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 11% MIT, a two-thirds drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 5% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 15% Tufts University, a one-third drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 4.7% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 7.3% The percentage of incoming Latinx students also declined significantly at Amherst and MIT. The percentage of Asian students slightly increased at Amherst and slightly decreased at Tufts. Meanwhile, the percentage of incoming White students rose at both Amherst and Tufts, which appears to have been the goal all along of the Supreme Court Justices and Edward Blum who brought this case before them. The SCOTUS ruling didn’t create an equitable application process for all students no matter their race or class. The SCOTUS ruling further rigged the process to admit more wealthy White students while telling Black, Latinx, Native, MENA, Pacific Islander students—and low and middle income White and Asian students that they didn’t get admitted to that highly selective college because there is something wrong with them. This is the racist American way these days. Claiming the most disadvantaged groups are the most advantaged. Reframing antiracist efforts that create equal opportunity as unjust. Passing measures and making rulings that end up further excluding disadvantaged groups from the most coveted spaces. Telling them they are excluded because there’s something wrong with them (and not the measures and rulings). Calling those measures and rulings and ideas “not racist.” Rinse and repeat.
"The outlook for institutions seeking to enroll Black students has become far less certain—thanks, in large part, to the twin forces of the Supreme Court ruling on the use of race in admissions and the concomitant pullback of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts among U.S. institutions. Add in COVID recovery and this year’s FAFSA snafu, and most institutions are concerned about their abilities to attract students who have been historically underserved. But for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this changing environment has been a boon." Read more in today's #EVWakeUpCall: https://lnkd.in/gip9C6bQ #HBCU #enrollment #highered #highereducation #prospectivestudents #enrollmentmanagement #enrollmentmarketing #Blackstudents #highereducationleaders