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    SEPARAE AND UNEQUALHow Higher Education Reinorces the Intergenerational

    Reproduction o White Racial Privilege

    July

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    Te views expressed in this publication are those o the authors and do not necessarily represent those o the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation, or the Joyce Foundation, their ocers, or employees.

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    able o ContentsList o Illustrations

    Introduction

    Part 1.Arican Americans and Hispanics Access to Postsecondary Education Is Increasing,but Racial Polarization Is Growing at the Same ime.

    Part 2.Racial and Ethnic Polarization In Postsecondary Education Matters BecauseResources Matter.

    Part 3.Te Racial Bias In Postsecondary Education Persists Even When Accounting orCollege Readiness.

    Part 4.Both Race and Class Matter In Determining Postsecondary Outcomes, but Raceand Class Are Not the Same Ting.

    How Do We Choose?

    Endnotes

    Appendix A. Data and Barrons Selectivity.

    Appendix B.Enrollments, Enrollment Flows, and Disproportionality inEnrollments.

    Appendix C. Low Hanging Fruit High Achieving Minority Students WhoEither Dont Complete or Dont Attend College.

    Bibliography

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    List o IllustrationsFigure 1. Whites with a college-educated parent are three times as likely to earn a Bachelors degree as AricanAmericans and Hispanics with a parent who dropped out o college or earned an Associates degree.

    Figure 2. Between 1995 and 2009, postsecondary enrollment grew signicantly or Arican Americans and His-

    panics compared to whites.

    Figure 3. Between 1995 and 2009, enrollments in the top colleges grew at a rate nearly our times that o theopen-access colleges.

    Figure 4. Te white share o enrollment in open-access schools plummeted 12 percentage points.

    Figure 5. New white student enrollments have owed to the 468 most selective colleges while Arican-Americanand Hispanic student enrollment growth has been conned mostly to open-access schools.

    Figure 6. White students captured most o the enrollment growth at the top schools (72%) but had no enrollmentincreases at the open-access schools. Arican Americans and Hispanics captured virtually all the enrollment growth atthe open-access, two- and our-year colleges (92%) but very little o the enrollment growth at the 468 most selective

    colleges (17%).

    Figure 7. Relative to their declining share o the youth population, whites are overrepresented at the top schools;relative to their growing share o the youth population, Arican Americans and Hispanics are underrepresented.

    Figure 8. Te 82 most selective colleges spend almost ve times as much and the most selective 468 colleges spendtwice as much on instruction per student as the open-access schools.

    Figure 9. Recipients o Bachelors degrees rom the top schools get graduate degrees at a rate o more than one and ahal times that o similar graduates rom open-access colleges.

    Figure 10. Equally qualied students have a higher graduation rate at the more selective schools with better resources.

    Figure 11. Arican-American and Hispanic students with above average SA/AC scores graduate at a rate o 73percent rom the top colleges, compared with a graduation rate o 40 percent at the open-access schools.

    Figure 12. Tere are 111,000 Arican Americans and Hispanics who graduate rom the top hal o the nations highschools but do not graduate college; 62,000 o them come rom the bottom hal o the amily income distribution.

    Figure 13. Among students with an A average in high school, 30 percent o A rican-American and Hispanicstudents attend community college, compared to 22 percent o white students.

    Figure 14. Regardless o SA/AC scores, whites have higher graduation rates or certicates and degrees (Associ-ates, Bachelors, and graduate degrees) than equally qualied Arican Americans and Hispanics.

    Figure 15. High-scoring whites, Arican Americans, and Hispanics attend college at the same rate.

    Figure 16. High-scoring white students complete college at a much higher rate than similarly qualied AricanAmericans or Hispanics.

    Figure 17. High-scoring white students who earn a postsecondary award earn a Bachelors degree or better moreoten than Arican Americans or Hispanics.

    Figure 18. Te Bachelors degree is the threshold where racial and ethnic diferences in educational attainment beginto decline.

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    Separate and Unequal:How Higher

    Education Reinorcesthe Intergenerational

    Reproduction o WhiteRacial Privilege

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    Introduction

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    Part 1.

    Arican Americansand Hispanics Access to

    Postsecondary Education

    Is Increasing, but RacialPolarization Is Growingat the Same ime

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    Part 2.Racial and EthnicPolarization in

    Postsecondary Education

    Matters BecauseResources Matter.

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    Part 3.Te Racial Biasin Postsecondary

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    Race and ethnicity also matter in the type o institutionattended, even among equally qualied students. Ab53 w d w d - w-d- y 2009 v 72 A-A d d 74 H d ( dx B).

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    Figure 15.

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    Te Bachelors degree is the tipping point in theeducational hierarchy where racial dierences begin

    to decline appreciably. For example, racial and ethnicinequality diminishes signicantly in the transitionto graduate school. But postsecondary straticationlimits Bachelors degree attainment among minorities,restricting them to the educational levels whereinequality is strongest; even among whites, Arican

    Americans, and Hispanics with the same test scores:

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    Part 4.Both Race and Class

    Matter in DeterminingPostsecondary Outcomes,

    but Race and Class AreNot Te Same Ting.

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    Cy w - x dy d d. Yet, controlling or income, race

    matters: k , w- A-A d H d j d d w w- w. W d w

    d (45%) w y db d qy A A (55%) d H (59%).T w- w B d y w A A dH d b y w b-bd. I , A-A d by .

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    I we are to reverse the polarization o the postsecondarysystem and achieve some measure o racial and economicdiversity, some combination o class-based and race-based admissions criteria are ultimately required.

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    Our study nds that more than 240,000 high schoolstudents every year, who graduate in the top hal otheir high school class and come rom the bottom hal othe amily income distribution, do not go on to one othe top 468 colleges and do not get a two- or our-yeardegree within eight years o graduation rom high

    school. Te data show that about one in our (62,000) othese high-scoring/low-income students who dont earna degree are Arican American or Hispanic.

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    b -bd yv . Ad -bd b d d b - d-bd dvy wd b -bd by v, S C Fisher v. Universityo exas. W y v, db -bd d yd b A-A dH dd d -bd d.19 I , b

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    structure, parental education, and occupational status,can translate into proxies or race in college admissions.

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    A w v dy (Cv d R,2004), U.S. b d wd d w k w . M 75 A w- d w b d d b v d

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    Student actors such as hours worked;

    Family actors such as parental educationand amily structure;

    Neighborhood actors attached to Censustract codes such as educational attainmentand crime rates; and

    School actors such as test scores, graduationrates, and percentage participation insubsidized school lunch programs.

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    While afrmative action, both race- and class-based,seems clearly justied as a device to encourage race andclass mobility and compensate or persistent racial andeconomic inequality, it is not clear that afrmativeaction as it has been known is a remedy that gets at thedeeper root o race-based and class-based inequality.

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    1. C w d vy qy, y by , w bd. SH, Ed P A A d L Ud S 1950 1990: T I Ay d C, 1999; G, A Sd Ed Iqy, 2001; K, C A H Ed Ud S, 19801992, 2002;Cv d R, S S, R/Ey, d

    Sv C Ad, 2003; Ld, A WyF C, C Gw Ov F, 2004; Ad O, T D Eqy A HEd, 2004; S d Bd, T R-P G

    Wd C d Sd, 2006; F, M. MAd F I A, 2006; F, E C L Sv Ndy, 2006; S, F Dd SvyD A F Rv Wd SG, 2007; Wy, ., Achievement rap: How America IsFailing Millions o High-Achieving Students rom Lower-IncomeFamilies, 2007; Hxby, C Svy, 2009; Sk, HwC P Iqy, 2007; Sk, earing Down theGates, 2007; Rk, ., C H Ed d

    S S Ud S, 2007; Bd dJq, I S d F Hy,2007; Hxby d Avy, T M O-O: T HddSy H-Av, Lw I Sd, 2012.

    2. T d dy d xd, d. N-dd dy d dy A Ad H ( Cv, .,Certicates: Gateway toGainul Employment and College Degrees, 2012). Ev 468 , d y w by w A A d H d(bd CEW y D C Pj d: v

    y). A dy by Gdk-Rb d Ky w b y ( SI d O D Py, 2013). T w db j w w dy d d w b k v v A

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    d K-12 d. S Ok, Cy Ad D: S Eqy d Iqy Ed Py, 2009. A, d b-b d b B d d Ck, C-O F, HEd, 1960; Ck, C-O F Rvd,1980; B d Kb, T Dvd D, 1989; dRyb, C O Cy C, 2008.

    5. T b d d w d d($1,547,000) d w d($3,648,000). S Cv, ., Te College Payof, 2011.

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    8. Sddzd d , dd dy SA/AC , d b SA, ddby Ed Sv d y d 400 1600, d AC, dd by AC I.,

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    v vy d d d v . T v d wd d dd v d v . T w b d , w b-b d A d. B d d w d dd. Bd, . w wd d d d d d d d d d ( Understanding the Decrease in College CompletionRates and the Increased ime to the Baccalaureate Degree, 2007).I bq dy, Bd, . d: () d d b w d d d b -v

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    15. L, Separate and Unequal: Te Neighborhood Gap or Blacks,Hispanics and Asians in Metropolitan America, 2010, 2011.

    16. A w- d, b x.W d d b B d b y w A A d H.

    17. Cv d S, Hw I C A I Iqy, d W D Ab I, 2010.

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    Appendix A. Data and Barrons SelectivitySection 1. Data

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    w d b d d 1997 1998 (96,017 32,910).2 T yw dd w b IPEDS d W d d b xd. T C Ed d Wk (CEW) y d dd d v , y vy. Nd d /- dw d b by b v .

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    Section 2. Selectivity

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    Very Competitive T vy v d d w GPA B d bv w kbw 35 d 50 . Md bw 1150 d 1240 SA d bw 24 d 26 AC. T y - - , b b -d.

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    Noncompetitive Nv q y vd d. E x d . S y , b w 98 d y dd.

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    Section 3. Changes in the number of institutions by tiers of selectivity and in the open-access sector.

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    Appendix B. Enrollments, Enrollment Flows,and Disproportionality in Enrollments

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    Section 1. Disproportionality

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    vy.) H d v dy - w w 3 d . A w j y vd dA A d Nv A b d bd - .

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    I dy, 2009 dy w w w vd (b 6) b v d dd by 3 1995 (b 7). A-A vd by 3 w w H (d), A (v), d Nv A (bd).

    A vy x. I 1995, w w 9 vd v w A A (-8 ) d H(-7 ) w y dd. Cvy, w d - w w w ; A A w bd; dH w dd by 3 ( b 3).

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    y .

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    Section 3. Asians and Native Americans.

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    IPEDS-bd y x y b A w. b 10 w 50 w A v v b 30 v - . Py d bd y b dy y A. b 7 d b dy A yvy . A 2 bv y , 6 bv , d 1 dd- d - .

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    Table 1. Enrollment and population, 99

    Population aged8-

    EnrollmentTop three tierso selectivity

    Middle tierOpen-access,

    two- and our-year schools

    All ,9,7 ,, ,8 , ,,9

    White ,9,7 ,, 9,7 9, 9,

    Arican American ,, , ,77 , 9,

    Hispanic ,,8 8,9 , ,8 7,

    Asian 9,9 , , 8, ,77

    Native American , , ,9 ,9 ,78

    Table 2. Distribution o population and reshman enrollment by selectivity and race/ethnicity; 99

    Population aged8- (%)

    Enrollment (%)Top three tiers

    o selectivity (%)Middle tier (%)

    Open-access,two- and our-

    year schools (%)

    All White 8 7 77 8 9

    Arican American 9

    Hispanic 9

    Asian

    Native American

    *In the ollowing Tables, numbers may not add to percent due to rounding.

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    Table 3. Enrollment disproportionality, 99

    Total (%)Top three tiers o

    selectivity (%)Middle tier (%)

    Open-access, two-and our-year schools

    (%)

    White 9

    Arican American - -8 -

    Hispanic - -7 -8 -

    Asian

    Native American

    Percentages calculated rom enrollment shares minus population shares in table .

    Table 4. Enrollment and population, 9

    Population aged8-

    EnrollmentTop three tierso selectivity

    Middle tierOpen-access,

    two- and our-year schools

    All 8,8,7 ,79,89 78, 7,9 ,,9

    White 7,7,8 ,7, ,8 89, 9,7

    Arican American ,7,79 , 8,99 8,9 ,

    Hispanic ,, 7,8 ,7 ,8 7,98

    Asian ,,7 9, 9,7 8, 8,8Native American ,7 ,9 ,9 ,9 ,7

    Table 5. Distribution o population and reshman enrollment by selectivity, and race/ethnicity, 9

    Population aged8- (%)

    Enrollment (%)Top three tiers

    o selectivity (%)Middle tier (%)

    Open-access,two- and our-

    year schools (%)

    All White 7 7 7

    Arican American 7

    Hispanic 8 8 9 7

    Asian

    Native American

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    Table 6. Distribution o postsecondary enrollment by race across institutional selectivity tiers, 99-9

    Top three tiers oselectivity (%)

    Middle tier (%)Open-access, two-

    and our-year school(%)

    All Title IVpostecondary

    institutions (%)

    99 9 99 9 99 9 99 9

    All 9

    White

    Arican American 8 9 9 7 7

    Hispanic 7 7

    Asian 8 7 8

    Native American 9 7 7

    Table 7. Enrollment disproportionality, 9

    Total (%)Top three tiers o

    selectivity (%)Middle tier (%)

    Open-access, two-and our-year schools

    (%)

    White 8 -

    Arican American -8

    Hispanic - - -9 -

    Asian

    Native American Percentages calculated rom enrollment shares minus population shares in table .

    Table 8. Percentage point changes in disproportionality by selectivity, race, and ethnicity, 99-9

    Total (%)Top three tiers o

    selectivity (%)Middle tier (%)

    Open-access, two-and our-year schools

    (%)

    White - - -Arican American

    Hispanic - -

    Asian

    Native American

    Change calculated by subtracting table 7 rom table .

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    Table 9. Net new gains in enrollments by selectivity, race and ethnicity, 99-9

    TotalTop three tiers o

    selectivityMiddle tier

    Open-access, two-and our-year schools

    All , ,77 ,9 88,7

    White , 8,8 9,9 8

    Arican American 8,97 7, ,877 ,9

    Hispanic 9, , 9, 8,98

    Asian ,8 7,9 9,9 7,79

    Native American 8,9 ,98 ,8 ,

    Table 10. Distribution o net new enrollment gains within total and selectivity tiers by race and ethnicity

    Total (%)Top three tiers o

    selectivity (%)Middle tier (%)

    Open-access, two-and our-year schools

    (%)

    All

    White 7

    Arican American 8 7

    Hispanic 9 8

    Asian 8 8

    Native American

    Table 11. Distribution o net new enrollment gains across selectivity tiers by race and ethnicity

    Total (%) Top tier(%) Middle tier (%)Open-access, two-

    and our-year schools(%)

    All 8 9 White 8 8

    Arican American 9 8

    Hispanic 7

    Asian 8

    Native American 8

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    Table 12. Enrollment shares and change in shares across tiers o selectivity, 99-9

    Top three tiers oselectivity (%)

    Middle tier (%) Bottom tier (%)

    99

    9 9

    Share shif 99-9 - -

    Table 13. Shares o net gains across tiers o selectivity

    Top three tiers o

    selectivity (%)

    Middle tier (%) Bottom tier (%)

    All 8 9

    White 8 8

    Arican American 9 8

    Hispanic 7

    Asian 8

    Native American 8

    Table 14. Shares o enrollment gains in selective tiers by race/ethnicity

    Total (%)Top three tiers o

    selectivity (%)Middle tier (%) Bottom tier (%)

    White 7

    Arican American 8 7

    Hispanic 9 8

    Asian 8 8

    Native American

    Table 15. Enrollment growth by selectivity tier

    Total %

    Top three tiers o selectivity 78%

    Middle tier 8%

    Open-access %

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    Appendix C. Low-Hanging Fruit High AchievingMinority Students Who Either Dont Complete or Dont

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