December 7, 2007

Minority Students Cluster at Minority-Serving Colleges

By JEAN EVANGELAUF

Undergraduates who are members of minority groups are increasingly concentrated at colleges that are classified as "minority serving," according to a U.S. Education Department report released last week.

The report, "Characteristics of Minority-Serving Institutions and Minority Undergraduates Enrolled in These Institutions," shows that the number of twoand four-year colleges whose undergraduate enrollment is at least 25 percent minority jumped from 414 in 1984 to 1,254 in 2004. In 1984

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