The Importance Of African-Americans In Higher Education

Access, affordability, and attainment must be improved to increase opportunities for African American students. First, social equity is used as a theoretical framework to examine higher education—specifically a public affairs education based on democratic values of equality and diversity. Second, the construct of institutional racism is defined and described, underscoring its role in partially explaining educational outcomes for African-Americans. Next, relying on secondary data, the rules and procedures used by institutions of higher education to establish access, affordability, and attainment are deconstructed to emphasize the institution’s responsibility in underwriting policies that promulgate the further disenfranchisement

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Findings The overall findings from the interview were the issues relating to underrepresented African-Americans in higher education access and success. I am aware of the gap between African-America students. Background factors play a part, such as those students from families where only one person has gone to college, family and environmental pressures. Sometimes the high school which students hail may play a role in academic success of an African-American minority student (Wiggins).

The themes were knowledge and awareness of the African-American student, causes of the problem, and academic support from faculty and staff.

Knowledge and awareness

All institutions have a strong commitment to widen participation and ensure equality and diversity of the student body and enhance a sense of belonging. With regard to multicultural backgrounds, institutions must develop cross-cultural

I don’t feel individual instructors are racists, but African-American students are still not treated fairly when it comes to testing. These tests are supposed to be universal, but more African-American are failing than Whites (Wiggins). However, the attainment gap “blame” can be placed on students, inadequate academic backgrounds, not enough knowledge base which results in falling behind peers. Reading and writing are not efficient among African-American students. African-American students don’t attain so well I guess because of the socio-economic backgrounds would determine the type of high school they’ve attended, and learning habits they have adopted (Wiggins).

Academic support High expectation are not set for African-American students, and African-American students need more encouragement to realize they can achieve in college. I think institutions need to consider ways in which all groups are structurally, institutionally, and are strategically supported and not just certain groups to bring up figures of particular groups of students (Wiggins).

Benefits of a Bachelor’s degree for African-Americans