The “Elusive Goal”: Despite Decades of Affirmative Action and Pushing, Racial Gaps Persist at Colleges
Despite huge efforts to promote nonwhites at the expense of whites in colleges and higher education, nonwhites still lag significantly behind whites in academic achievement, a new report has shown.
The report, published by the American Council on Education (ACE), said that “despite enrollment gains by minorities in the past decade,” two-thirds of undergraduate degrees were awarded to white students in 2007.
In a special part of the report dealing exclusively with Hispanics, the report said Hispanic immigrant degree attainment is 14 percent, compared with U.S.-born Hispanics at 25 percent.
“Equality in education for all Americans remains a somewhat elusive goal that we must strive to reach,” ACE president Molly Corbett Broad was quoted as saying.
The report, funded by the GE Foundation, did not even to try address the issue of why this achievement gap persists decade in and decade out despite the most frenetic liberal attempts to close it.
Significantly, the report urged “greater investment in alternative education and training programs to better serve that demographic” — in other words, even more money should be spent on Latinos.
The report mentioned that Hispanics still have the lowest high school completion rates of any group, at 70 percent. Once again, the cause for this lag is never addressed.
“When it comes to college, the Hispanic record is similarly mixed. In 2008, 28 percent of traditional college-age Hispanics were in college, up from 17 percent two decades earlier,” the report sid.,
“But other racial groups made greater gains, and an enrollment gap that has whites ahead of Hispanics has widened. Young Hispanic men are lagging farther behind young Hispanic women.”
Hispanic racial activist Deborah Santiago, vice president of policy and research for Excelencia in Education, which advocates for “Hispanic college success,” said that the report revealed “where we really need to act.”
Among the other findings, based on U.S. Department of Education data:
- Between 1997 and 2007, total nonwhite enrollment on U.S. campuses grew 52 percent to 5.4 million, while the number of white students grew 12 percent, to 10.8 million.
- Nonwhites accounted for 30 percent of the college student population, up from 25 percent.
One day, possibly, liberals will be forced to confront the issue of why, despite years of affirmative action, special funding, and blatant anti-white discrimination, people of Third World-origin populations still fail to achieve First World standards.
Until then, the delusion will persist, and American educational standards will continue to be lowered.
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Higher Education is an individual achievement, but the liberal scum suckers like to make it a federal multiracial educational achievement.
It's like the old saying, ' You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink'. For all of the Affirmative action and other measures taken to 'equalize' the races, they still fall short. This should prove that the 'racialist' of past era's that merely made the obvious observation that some other races weren't as intelligent as whites weren't the 'racist' and 'haters' that the present Cultural Marxist try to make them out as being but were just telling the truth. When are minorities going to acknowledge the fact that all races are not equal on an intellectual level and that it makes no sense for people to go to institutions of higher learning when you are simply not able to comprehend or do the work. And that it most certainly doesn't make sense when it's mostly the white working class who are having to pay for these people to try ,only to fail.
The non-Whites for years have been fed this LIE of "racial equality" by the anti-White, social Marxist Left. They can not, however, change biological reality as is consistently manifested by test scores and learing ability.
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